BY THE

REV. STOPFORD A. BROOKE

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1892

The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved

PREFACE

THESE Sermons are intended not only for private reading, but also to supply, as far as I am able to do it, a want of which I have been frequently conscious. Many families living in the country have a short service on Sunday evenings, and feel the need of a brief five or ten minutes' sermon. The contents of this volume may possibly then be useful.

I have removed from them everything controversial, and spoken in them only of those moral and spiritual things on which all sects and Churches may agree. I trust that they are simple; I have tried to make them clear; and I hope that they declare, with as much fervour and humility as befits