Conquering forces of the kingdom and other sermons

Front matter

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Conquering Forces of the Kingdom

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Preface

These sermons are given to the Church because it is believed that they are well worth printing and reading. The average sermon, being anecdotal and hortatory, is neither instructive nor edifying when read, however pleasing it may have been when delivered. But when men of scholarship and spiritual insight write, their sermons are always read with profit. Of course, the best thing about any sermon is the man. The man is the sermon. Christian truth, experienced by a man, living in a man, and getting utterance through a man — this is the sermon. The manly presence, the forceful gesture, the illuminated countenance, the voice ringing with the note of sincerity — these are not here. But here are the great truths which Seth Ward held dear, truths on which he fed his own soul and with which he fed others, truths upon which he ventured his whole life, truths which brought that life nearer to Christian perfection than men often come in this world, truths which gave to him a beautiful and triumphant death.

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My work as editor has been greatly lightened by Mrs. Ward, who, after I had selected these fourteen sermons for publication, went over them with her own hand, getting them ready for the press. Edwin D. Mouzon.

San Antonio, Tex., August 17, 191 1.

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