Delivered before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877. BY THE REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS. Fifth Thousand. 12mo, 281 pages $1.50. "Unlike Robertson, Phillips Brooks continually reminds us of him. He has the same analytical power; the same broad human sympathy; the same keen knowledge of human nature, toned and tempered and made the more true by his sympathies; the same mysterious and indefinable element of divine life, so that his message comes with a quasi authority, wholly unecclesiastical, purely personal; and the same undertone of sadness, the same touch of pathos, speaking low as a man who is saddened by his own seeming success, a success which is to his thought, and in comparison with his ideals, a failure. No minister can read carefully these lectures without getting a profounder sense of the true grandeur of his work, and a clearer conception of at least some of the secrets of success in its prosecution."- Harper's Magazine. "No one in our country has had more continuous or more conspicuous success in preaching than Mr. Brooks; and the book he has given us points directly to the principles which underlie his power. No one can read it and go on repeating the proverb, 'as dry as a sermon,' if only sermons shall be conceived and delivered in the moral and intellectual atmosphere with which these lectures surround the subject. "The teaching in these lectures is of necessity full of vitality. It is to be compared not so much to a treatise on tactics or an exhortation to enlist, as to a strain of martial music inspiring the enthusiasm of a soldier. It is withal very noble and very genuine. No theological student could ever read it and doubt that character lay at the bottom of his success. Full of inspiring suggestions as it is, no one could glean from it any comfort in trusting to inspirations and neglecting work and study."- Scribner's Monthly. "The enthusiasm for the profession which this book displays has contagion in it, because it is not expended on that which separates the profession from other occupations, but on that which it shares with them. Throughout the book runs a single thought never lost sight of, -the greater the man the greater the preacher; and again and again, when discoursing of practical methods, the lecturer returns in some form to his golden text, that it is the man behind the sermon which makes the sermon a power. It is because the lecturer, holding this truth firmly, addresses himself to the living facts of a preacher's profession rather than to the mechanism or elaborate organization in which he works, that his words will be life to the living and glittering generalities to the moribund."- Atlantic Monthly. "We do not hesitate to say that they are of more practical value than any work of the sort we have ever seen. It is a book to be read for the feeling it awakens, but feeling so lofty that it is one with wisdom and truth." - Literary World. "Nothing of the kind can be superior to his first four lectures. They might be truly described as an analysis of the elements of Christian manliness, and as a statement of the conditions on which men who preach can hope to win other men. Nearly every page contains something over which the reader lingers with delight."- New York Times. "No man, lay or clerical, who likes bright thoughts and clear, artistic expression, can afford to neglect this volume."- New York Sun. "There is a noble breadth and height and depth to each of these lectures. They are both roomy and full. Of all the courses which have been given on this foundation, we remember none that are more vital, fresh, and inspiring. One does not need to be a min ister to read them with great satisfaction and great improvement." - Boston Advertiser "It would be very easy to fill columns with fresh, sagacious, subtile, true observations from these pages."- Boston Evening Transcript. For sale at all Bookstores, or sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. E. P. DUTTON & CO., Publishers, 713 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. COPYRIGHT, 1878, BY E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY To THE THREE PARISHES WHICH IT HAS BEEN HIS PRIVILEGE TO SERVE, THE CHURCH OF THE ADVENT, PHILADELPHIA, THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, PHILADELPHIA, AND TRINITY CHURCH, BOSTON,— These Sermons ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THEIR FRIEND AND MINISTER. |