Excerpt from Sermons: Preached Before the University of Oxford Between A. D. 1859 and 1872 Ill-chosen text-books completed the work. Talented young men who came prepared for scepticism as con sidering it a mark of intellect, step by step parted with their faith. The foundations Of faith had to be laid anew; the young had to be won, not to a completer faith, but to Christianity, or to its most central truths. The writer then in some of the following sermons, as in a few others already published, essayed to teach his young audience first principles of faith, or he dwelt on Doctrines which had been represented as incompatible with revelation, or on subjects, which from early experi ence, he had felt to be Of value as evidences of faith. These were, the Person of Jesus, and that miracle, which we can see with our own eyes and handle with our own hands, the miracle of Prophecy. Early perience had shewn him, in a powerful intellect, how this evidence might, by God's grace, find entrance into minds which the appeal to miracles Of power rather repelled. 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.