Excerpt from Charity: Fifteen Plain Addresses

There are passages in these Sermons which will touch many hearts, as shewing how he seemed to live in the thought of death, while ceaselessly at work in the many objects of his unwearied care among which he lived; and though called to his account with a remarkable suddenness, without any apparent sign of the approaching end of his ministry, it was felt as a token of love strong as death, that when ministering in his church on the Thursday on which he passed to his rest, he was moved to ask for special prayer that the blessing of Jesus Christ might rest on the Church and Work.

This volume will therefore, I trust, be heartily welcomed. The Series has been selected as one which the Author had intended for publication, though left in ms. Unrevised and un corrected. It is a course of addresses delivered on Sundays in Lent, in S. Paul's, Knightsbridge, in 1872, when many spoke of being much impressed by his words; and afterwards, on the same days, they were preached at the Church of the Ascension. He would probably have re-written many passages had he lived to carry out his intention of publishing the volume. The Editor, to whose reverent and loving hand it has naturally fallen toprepare the book for the press, has felt it a sacred duty to leave the Sermons as they were found, only allowing himself to correct purely clerical errors.

It is a sincere gratification to myself to be able to add my brief testimony to the worth of one with whom I have felt myself in constant sympathy, and the blessing attending whose labours has always been to me a cause of rejoicing.

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