Excerpt from Homiletical and Pastoral Lectures: Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral Before the Church Homilectical Society The following Lectures were delivered, at various periods during the past five years, before the Church Homiletical society, either in the Chapter Room or the Trophy Room of St. Paul's Cathedral. The useful Society, before the members 'of which the lectureswere delivered, was established'in March 1874, and owed its origin to a smalllgathering of London clergymen, who met together in the autumn of the preceding year to consider the best means of raising the standard of preaching, especially among, younger men. It was felt that the need for such a movement was real, and even urgent, but it appeared to be very doubtful how that'need could best be supplied. It was ultimately agreed that a short and tentative course of lectures on preaching should be delivered. Invitations were sent out to all the clergy of London and the suburbs, and'to' others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.