Good cheer for a year

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Preface

It is too soon to let the ministry of Bishop Brooks pass into the shadow of forgetfulness. He "yet speaketh " in a multitude of works which, in a remarkable degree, combine lofty spirituality and plain practicalness with rare human sympathy, and are therefore particularly well adapted to the sustenance and guidance of the daily Christian life. There are those who are so fortunate as to be able to study these works as a whole, but there are also many busy people who are glad to have one thought, suitable and sufficient unto the day, ready to their hands in a convenient form. To such a second year-book is offered, not by the same hand as the first, but compiled on the same plan, for the excellent reason that it cannot be bettered.

The labor of making the book has been increased by the abundance of the material. Many year-books might be quarried out of it without exhausting its richness and variety, or its wealth of helpful suggestion for those who are trying to live the life of faith in uniiv PREFACE.

son with the life of action, to "round every truth with its duty, and deepen every duty into its truth." Inevitably the thought comes that such a daily ministry to hearts thrilled and elated with life's duties and joys, or sore and weary with its burdens, must be deeply gratifying to him with whose rich and abundant life of faith and works it is impossible to associate any thought of death. The monks of Antioch were wont to say of a brother, not " He is dead/' but '" He is perfected."

For those who like to follow the Christian Year, and who may wish to use the book more than once, selections for the greater movable fasts and feasts are appended to the

volume.

W. M. L. Jay.

Sermons, ist Series,

Sermons, 2d Series,

Sermons, 3D Series,

Sermons, 4.TH Series,

Sermons, 5TH Series,

Sermons, 6th Series,

Sermons for the Principal Festivals

Fasts,

The Influence of Jesus,

Yale Lectures on Preaching,

Essays and Addresses,

The Life Here and 'the Life Hereafter,

The Good Wine at the Feast's End, .

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