Growth in Grace; And Other Sermons

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTE. Voices from tiie grave of the Church of England's most eloquent man will be listened to. His famous Parliamentary Speech was ranked by an experienced capable critic among the three great speeches of the century. He had the trust of the Laity; he had the spirit and the aims of a Statesman; he kept for the Church the flower of his powers. They who knew him in tiie warmth of his private life knew tiie. brilliant audacity with which he would svjiftly pursue some witty or humorous thought, and then suddenly land you on some serious shore--per' haps not without a half-tear. The wit which sometimes concentrated a sermon in a jest or an apophthegm ran out in his preaching into a stream of epigram as clear as it xvas copious. In his preaching, the wit, the common sense, the pathos were as real as in his talk. The strength of his opinions was heightened by the candour with which he was willing and able to reconsider special deductions from them. In the position to xvhich all England so lately called him, he re-dedicated himself (I cannot forget his solemn words) to work for the good of the whole Church and for the social welfare of the People. TJten in a moment God's finger touched him and he slept. In these sermons, which lie never 2>ublis}ted, many who have delighted in one or other of them, and many more who had never the opportunity of delighting in the mellow ring of that free and noble speech, will rejoice to learn something of its wisdom, its vigour, its exactitude and its tenderness. Emv: Cantuae: PREFACE. In selecting the following sermons for publication I have confined myself to those which have been revised, to some extent at least, by the author. They do not contain, it is impossible that they should contain, the i...