YORK STREET, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON,

BY THE

REV. STOPFORD A. BROOKE, M.A.

Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen.

FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

HENRY S. KING & Co., 65 CORNHILL.

252 B79

PREFACE.

THE MAIN THOUGHT which underlies this volume is outlined in the first two sermons, and is this: that the ideas which Christ made manifest on earth are capable of endless expansion, to suit the wants of men in every age; and that they do expand, developing into new forms of larger import and wider application in a direct proportion to that progress of mankind of which they are both root and sap. If we look long and earnestly enough, we shall find in them (not read into them, as some say) the explanation and solution not only of our religious, but even of our political and social problems. Nor do they contradict the ideas which direct scientific research, nor those which have been generalised from the results of that research, but are in essential analogy with both one and the other.

In speaking of their first revelation and the manner of it, of the Person and Character of Him who sent them forth to run swiftly upon earth, of the points, as in the case of prayer and immortality, in which they seem to come into collision with science, of the way they touch political and artistic questions, and finally of the U of M Bindery Ave 20184 J 29 64

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