PREFACE.

RECEIVING simultaneously requests for "More Memories" and invitations to give Lectures in America, I have endeavoured in this volume to combine my compliance with a very grateful appreciation of the honour conferred upon me.

S. REYNOLDS HOLE.

CONTENTS.

I.

PERSONAL.

Fear and Hope-Some Misapprehension as to our Apprecia-

tions of America - General Washington - American Au-

Subjects and Objects of Addresses.

thors

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II.

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ECCLESIASTICAL.

The American Episcopate — Bishops of To-day — The Church

of England Fifty Years Ago - In the Villages - The Fabric

Services Sermons Music - The Transformation . 12

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III.

PREACHING AND PREACHERS.

Earnest Preaching and Written Sermons - The Education of

the Memory - Simplicity and Brevity - Pusey and New-

man - Wilberforce Canon Liddon - Living Preachers . 33

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IV.

CHURCH SERVICES AND MISSIONS.

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American Admiration of English Cathedrals Hawthorne

Wendell Holmes Lowell "A Petrified Religion," Fifty

Years Ago - Recent Progress, Structural and Devotional

Elaborate and Congregational Music - Multiplication of

Services Foreign and Home Missions - - Plan and Prog-

ress of the Latter, Occasional and Permanent — Organiza-

tion and Successful Work of the Universities' and Public

Schools' Missions .

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OUR PERPLEXITIES.

Drunkenness Includes all who are "Worse for Drink"

Some of the Causes - The Remedies - Total Abstinence

and Temperance - Doctors differ- Prevention better than

Cure America Foremost in the Crusade - Decrease of

Drunkenness

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VI.

OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY.

Causes of Disregard and Desecration - Who are most to blame?

-Differences of Opinion as to the Manner of Observance

- The Severe Sabbatarian - The Opening of Galleries and

Museums Bicycles - The Bishop of New York and Dean

Stanley on the Subject Cremation not Popular in Eng-

land - When Expedient Discontinued by the Romans

when converted to Christianity - Funeral Reform

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VII.

CHURCH PROGRESS.

Imperishable Faith The Sword of the Oppressor is the

Pruning-knife of the Vine - Sacrilege - The Higher Crit-

icism The Old Paths - Church and State - Zeal and

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Humility - Toleration and Unity

VIII.

EDUCATION.

Doubtful Disputations - Failure of the Education which is

not Religious - Mistakes in selecting Schools - Overwork

- Adaptation Study of "the Classes

Gentlemen

- Results

Its Happiness

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- How are they produced? - Spoiled Children

IX.

MARRIAGE.

The Rose looking in at the Window

Early

Instincts - My First Lover's Lay - Some Sad Mistakes -

A Caution to Lovers - · Old Customs .

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X.

OUR ARISTOCRACY.

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A Mixture, as in all other Sorts and Conditions of Men - In-

justice of Sweeping Condemnations Noblesse oblige –

"Drunk as a Lord " - Rebuke of an Unjust Steward

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XI.

THE WORKING MEN.

The Dig-

Two Kinds of Working Men accurately described

nity and the Happiness of Work - Timoleon d'Ecossais

The Contest between Industry and Indolence - Sympathy

between Rich and Poor - Lying Prophets who would dis-

suade from Work- The Smoke Nuisance and Sanitary

Laws

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POLITICS.

A Disagreeable Subject - Party-spirit — Early Recollections,

Politics and Port Wine - Protection and Free Trade-

Charles Dickens on Patriotism - Lord Rosebery's Brighter

Hopes Analogous Temptations - Gladstone O'Connell

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SO FEW?

Vain Excuses - No Effort of Preparation — Daunted by Fail-

- Earnestness the Indispensable Element of Success

Cor paratum - The Speaker must be Master of his Subject,

and must make a Clear Plan of his Argument Utterance

and Manner

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