SERMONS

BY THE

Hugh Reginald

REV. H. R. HAWEIS, M. A.,

Incumbent of St. James', Westmoreland Street, Marylebone, London,
Author of "Music and Morals," etc.

NEW YORK

HOLT & WILLIAMS

1872

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

WILLIAM F. COWPER-TEMPLE, M, P.,

THESE "THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES" ARE

INSCRIBED, WITH FEELINGS OF

AFFECTIONATE REGARD,

By his Friend,

HUGH REGINALD HAWEIS, M. 'A.

PREFACE.

THE present Volume consists of short-hand reports of several extempore sermons. Some of them, like the Introductory one, stand nearly verbatim as delivered; whilst others have been more or less modified.

In the case of sermons, most of which were preached without notes, whilst several were reported without a view to publication, it is impossible for me to say how much I have occasionally borrowed from other minds; but I can state roughly my obligations to the following works:

To Mr. FROUDE'S "Plea for Freedom of Thought in

the Church of England,” in the First Discourse.

To Mr. HERBERT SPENCER'S Part I. of "First Principles," in the Second Discourse.

To Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD'S "Literature and Dogma," in the Third Discourse.

To Mr. LECKY'S

Fourth Discourse.

"Rationalism in Europe," in the

To Mr. EMANUEL DEUTSCH'S "The Talmud," in the

Fifth Discourse.