Sermons for the Times

CONTENTS

Sermon I             Fathers and Children  

Sermon II            Salvation 

Sermon III           A Good Conscience 

Sermon IV          Names

Sermon V           Sponsorship 

Sermon VI          Justification by Faith 

Sermon VII         Duty and Superstition 

Sermon VIII        Sonship

Sermon IX           The Lord's Prayer 

Sermon XI           The Doxology 

Sermon XII         Ahab and Naboth 

Sermon XIII        The Light of God

Sermon XIV        Providence 

Sermon XV         England's Strength  

Sermon XVI        The Life of God  

Sermon XVII       God's Offspring  

Sermon XVIII      Death in Life 

Sermon XIX        Shame

Sermon XX         Forgiveness

Sermon XXI        The True Gentleman

Sermon XXII       Toleration

Sermon XXIII     Public Spirit

About the author:

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.

Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! led to the founding of a village by the same name (the only place name in England with an exclamation mark) and inspired the construction of the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway. A hotel in Westward Ho! was named after and opened by him. A hotel which was opened in 1897 in Bloomsbury, London, and named after Kingsley was founded by teetotallers, who admired Kingsley for his political views and his ideas on social reform. It still exists as The Kingsley by Thistle.

Kingsley School, a private school in Bideford, the town in which Westward Ho! is set, took its name from him after it was founded in 2009 as a merger of Edgehill College and Grenville College.

In 1905, the composer Cyril Rootham wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem Andromeda. This was performed at the Bristol Music Festival in 1908. Like Kingsley, Rootham had been educated at Bristol Grammar School. (wikipedia.org)