AND OTHER SERMONS BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES FRASER, D.D. Second Bishop of Manchester EDITED BY JOHN W. DIGGLE, M.A. VICAR OF MOSSLEY HILL, LIVERPOOL ΑΠΟΘΑΝΩΝ ΕΤΙ ΛΑΛΕΙΤΑΙ London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1887 The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved PREFACE. MOST of the Sermons in this volume were preached while Bishop Fraser was rector of the little country village of Cholderton. A few of the Bishop's later Sermons have been added: and their character clearly shows that, as "the child is father to the man," so the Rector of Cholderton was "father" to the Bishop of Manchester. The same spirit speaks through all the Sermons: only, in later life, its voice was enlarged by the expansion of its opportunities for utterance. Bishop Fraser was a remarkable instance of a man made more outspoken, and less official, by his accession to Episcopal dignity. To him, dignity was but a high form of duty, and his Episcopate simply a splendid means of winning men to their Lord. The first eleven Sermons in the volume follow the Course of the Christian Year: the rest are, for the most part, arranged in chronological order; and all have been selected for the sake of their simplicity, |