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Sermon I Discipline

Sermon II The Temple of Wisdom

Sermon III Prayer and Science

Sermon IV God's Training

Sermon V Good Friday

Sermon VI False Civilization

Sermon VII The Name of God

Sermon VIII The End of Religion

Sermon IX The Humanity of God

Sermon X God's World

Sermon XI The Armour of God

Sermon XII Paul and Felix

Sermon XIII The Good Samaritan

Sermon XIV Consider the Lilies of the Field

Sermon XV The Jewish Rebellions

Sermon XVI Terror by Night

Sermon XVII The Son of Thunder

Sermon XVIII Humility

Sermon XIX A Whitsun Sermon

Sermon XX Self-Help

Sermon XXI Endurance

Sermon XXII Toleration

Sermon XXIII The Kingdom of Christ

Sermon XXIV The Likeness of God

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)