THIS Volume contains
have been preached during the last three years to the
Church of the Disciples in Boston. In making the
selection, I have taken those which I thought would
be most interesting and useful to the general public.
I have avoided those dealing with speculative and con-
troversional questions. These discourses concern the
realities of the spiritual life, rather than theories about
it. They avoid the obscure regions of thought, and
those profounder discussions, of which we may say,
in the words of the apostle: "He that speaketh in an
unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God;
for no man understandeth him, howbeit in the spirit
he speaketh mysteries. But he that prophesieth,
speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and
comfort."
number of sermons which