SERMONS PREACHED IN THE CHAPEL OF RUGBY SCHOOL, WITH AN ADDRESS BEFORE CONFIRMATION. BY THOMAS ARNOLD, D. D., HEAD MASTER OF RUGBY SCHOOL, AND AUTHOR OF OF ROME, LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY, THE HISTORY FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & CO., 290 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA:", GEORGE S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT-STREET. MDCCCXLVI. PREFATORY NOTICE, THE publishers of the "LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF DR. ARNOLD," and of Dr. "ARNOLD'S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS," now present to the admirers of that author the volume of Discourses which, as Head Master of Rugby School, were addressed to the pupils of that institution. It will be perceived that they are expressly appropriated to that "description of readers," although others will be edified by the impressive obligations of duty, both moral and religious, which are interspersed throughout the whole series. Many circumstances and relations exist in the public endowed schools in England, such as Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester, which are almost unknown in the United States; yet on all the grand points of study, habits of life, and intellectual characteristics which concern students, they are identical-especially in reference to the requirements of personal decorum, Christian mo rality, and the pious observances enjoined by the Holy Scriptures. There having been a deep and wide-spread solicitude frequently announced, that the results of Dr. Arnold's experience, as a tutor of the highest order, should be more extensively known-with the graver instructions enounced by the Master of the Rugby School, the description of which in "Arnold's Miscellaneous Works" has excited such great interest-the publishers have been induced to issue the volume of Sermons for the Rugby School separate; expressly that the senior pupils in academies and schools, and collegiate students, may enjoy the edifying admonitions of probably the most successful and useful preceptor of the present century—whether we advert to the immediate benefits of his tuition, or to the exemplary reforms in academic education, which have embalmed his memory with equal affection and renown. New-York, Nov. 19, 1845. CONTENTS. PAGE 1 John v. 4, 5.-This is the victory which overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 17 John vi. 58.-This is the bread which came down from Acts ii. 42. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' 1 Cor. xiii. 11.-When I was a child, I spake as a child, I John iii. 12.-If I have told you earthly things, and ye be- |