Excerpt from The Love and Wisdom of God: Being a Collection of Sermons Cuddesdon days, a sermon to Men only, a Missionary sermon at St. Paul's, a School sermon, two Memorial ser mons, Addresses given at a Quiet Day for Bishops during the Lambeth Conference of 1897, a paper on clerical study, and a sermon preached at the Festival of Lincoln Theological College in 1888. It is always a very different thing to read a sermon and to hear one. This is specially true in the case of a preacher like the late Bishop of Lincoln. His gracious and inspiring presence, his appealing voice, his intensely sympathetic in tonation, cannot be produced on the printed page, and much, very much, is consequently lost. Those who knew him best will agree that it seemed comparatively to matter very little what he said it was his presence and his way of saying what he had to say which seemed all-important the magnetic attraction of his presence was in itself more than half the sermon. It follows, therefore, that a'volume of his printed sermons can only suggest in a very attenuated way the real effect of the preacher. It was, however, thought worth while that his method of preaching and teaching should not be altogether lost to a younger generation, and the only way of securing this (with whatever inevitable drawbacks) was to publish a volume like the present. They will at least show that the Bishop's mind was continually at work as well as his heart; he was a real thinker, and used to take great pains in preparing his ser mons, sometimes beginning them quite early in the morn ing between four and five o'clock While he was still in bed. In earlier years he wrote but little, and preached gener ally from notes but latterly, as he found his memory less reliable, and to avoid the strain of speaking extempore, his practice was to write almost everything. 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.