0 SERMONS Parochial and Occasional BY J. B. MOZLEY, D.D. = LATE CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY DIVINITY SCHOO LIBRARY HARVARD UNIVERSITY New York E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY MDCCCLXXIX Advertisement. IN arranging the following Sermons for the press, it has been thought right to place them in chronological order rather than with regard to their subjects. Those that come first in the volume were written before the Author had a parish. Many that follow were evidently designed for a village congregation, while others make larger demands on the reader's attention. All, it is believed, will be found characteristic of the writer's turn of mind and original way of viewing things. It is felt that the Sermons lose much in wanting the Author's revision for the press. Nothing was less in his mind than their publication. Missing this great advantage, the Editor has preferred to leave some homelinesses of expression, which the Author would not have allowed to pass, rather than substitute for the first draught of a characteristic thought the conventional phrases which suggest themselves in their place. CONTENTS The Right Eye and the Right Hand. "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not PAGE The Influences of habit on Devotion. "And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this |