SERMONS PREACHED AT AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. BY SAMUEL EDGER, B.A., LOND. AUCKLAND: QUEEN STREET, 1870. PREFACE. THESE sermons are published--and they were I preached—for that comparatively very small class of people who make religion an earnest study, because they expect to find in it a power to invigorate the mind, and to elevate human life. To these alone I feel called upon to speak, for the simple reason that I am not conscious of the fitness to speak to any others. Such, I trust, will not be wholly disappointed ; at least, if they will read in quiet moments, when reflection is neither difficult nor unpleasant. To that very large class—who expect a sermon to be an “ eloquent” reiteration of what they never once doubted(I cannot say what they believe), and who would be very much surprised and perhaps grieved to hear from a preacher anything they had not heard before, or anything they could doubt; to that other large class (it is to be feared exceedingly large in Auckland), to whom church |