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)