Gospel truths

Dedication

To the Members of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who gave devout audience as these sermons were preached from their historic pulpit, this volume is dedicated — a grateful memorial to their many tokens of appreciation during Twenty Years of Pastoral Service.

Foreword

T^HIS little volume of sermons has been prepared in - 1 - response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit. With some slight discrimination, they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. There has been little or no change, except where some purely local reference demanded it. In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind : to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance , and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles which underlie Christian character and conduct. There is no effort to develop distinctive doctrines ; yet every sermon aims to have some fundamental doctrine as its basic part. It is the living relations of the doctrine, the doctrine in actual life, that is designed, above all else, in this series. The heart right, the life in line with it; the doctrine sound, the practice conformed to it: such has been, throughout, the underlying thought. As this new volume goes forth with its message of truth and grace, may it be instrumental in quickening in the hearts of those who read it a deepening sense of spiritual certitudes and an increasing purpose to realize them in their lives.

John Edwin Whitteker.