A SERIES OF SHORT MEDITATIVE ADDRESSES AS DELIVERED AT PAROCHIAL MISSIONS. BY HASKETT SMITH, M.A., RECTOR OF BRAUNCEWELL-CUM-ANWICK, LINCOLNSHIRE. London SKEFFINGTON & SON, 163, PICCADILLY. - 1885. AMONG the many treatises which have been written upon the Lord's Prayer, I have never met with any which have dealt with the subject from a Doctrinal point of view. This must be my apology for the present publication; for the object of these meditative addresses has been to trace the development of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity, as revealed by the structure of this Divine Prayer; and, at the same time, to show the specific relation between each individual Person of the Holy Trinity and the Church Catholic upon earth. I venture to hope that a careful study of the following pages may, by God's grace, assist the reader to discover a hitherto unnoticed phase of this marvellous Prayer, a phase of wondrous beauty and power; and thus increase his reverence and devotion for that which, under the outward form of a short and simple Prayer, contains within its narrow compass the infinite measure of Catholic Truth; thus making it to be a very type and emblem of its Divine Author, Who, though "found in the fashion" of a poor and humble Man, yet held, beneath the veil of His Humanity, the incomprehensible, infinite fulness of the very Godhead. Perhaps I may be allowed to add that I have ventured to put these plain and simple thoughts into print, at the oft-repeated request of many friends to whom they have been addressed, at various Parochial Missions. Anwick Vicarage, Lent, 1885. H. S. |