PREFACE. THESE Sermons were not written for publication, but are selected from the MSS. prepared by the Author for his ordinary parish work, or for his ministerial teaching at the Charter House. His former little volume, "The Sinless Sufferer," now in its Tenth edition, has evidently been much appreciated by English readers. Very many must have found, in those reverent and thoughtful pages, help and comfort for their souls, through the deeper insight granted them into the mysterious and awful sufferings of their Lord, and the clearer knowledge of that infinite Love, which constrains us, not only to kneel under His Cross, but also to walk humbly and thankfully on His narrow way. It is hoped that the Sermons now published,-embracing, as they do, the whole course of that Christian Year which commemorates the various stages of the blessed Life of Jesus on the earth, and points Him out to us as God and Man,—may also be of use to those who are trying to obey His Voice, to follow His steps, and to rest on His Cross and Passion. God grant that they may be of service, as well, in deciding the eternal choice of those who halt as yet between two opinions, and who do not see that it is for their very life that they are called to cling to their Saviour rather than to their sins. Owing to the Author's lamented illness, the revision of the book for the press has been intrusted to one who, though not personally acquainted with him, thinks it a real privilege to be allowed in some slight measure to further the work of a Christian priest, whose writings he knows to be full of faith and love, and whose meek, forgiving character, as described by an old Carthusian pupil, must have been trained under the guiding eye of his Redeemer, May he, who has comforted others, receive all Divine consolations for himself! G. E. J. Contents. "And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it. And if it bear fruit, "When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jeru- salem, saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him." “Then He took unto Him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished. For He shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spite- fully entreated, and spitted on: and they shall scourge Him, and |