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Title: Sermons at Rugby

Author: John Percival

Release Date: October 11, 2005 [eBook #16856]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1905 James Nisbet and Co. edition by David Price,
email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

SERMONS AT RUGBY

By the Rt. Rev. JOHN PERCIVAL, D.D., LORD BISHOP OF HEREFORD
SOMETIME HEADMASTER OF RUGBY

JAMES NISBET AND CO. LTD.
21 BERNERS STREET, LONDON. 1905

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

This little group of Rugby Sermons is to be taken and read as being
nothing more than a few stray chips from the workshop of a busy
schoolmaster, brought together by a kindly publisher, and arranged as he
thought best.

They represent no body of continuous doctrine. In one case the subject
may have been suggested by the season of the Christian year; in another
it was the meeting or the parting at the beginning or the end of a term
that suggested it; or more frequently some incident in the school life of
the moment.

Such, indeed, almost inevitably is the teaching of a schoolmaster,
engrossed in the training of the boys committed to his charge and growing
under his hand towards the destiny of their endless life.

To those boys, and to the masters, my colleagues, and to other fellow-
labourers--some gone to their rest, some still doing their appointed
work--I dedicate this brief reminder of our common life in days of happy
fellowship.

J. HEREFORD.
_July_ 1905.

I. RELIGIOUS PATRIOTISM.

"Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself. . . . O pray
for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace
be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces. For my
brethren and companions' sakes I will wish thee prosperity. Yea,
because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek to do thee
good."--PSALM cxxii. 3, 6-9.

As we draw near to the end of our summer term, when so many are about to
take leave of their sch