Produced by Gerard Arthus and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF Cabinet and Carte-de-Visite Photographs OF HAWORTH AND THE BRONTE FAMILY. _Cartes-de-Visite._ CHARLOTTE BRONTE MR. NICHOLS MR. BRONTE MR. GRIMSHAW THE OLD CHURCH THE OLD PARSONAGE THE BRONTE GROUP THE TABLET THE OLD PEW THE OLD PULPIT THE WATERFALLS THE NEW CHURCH _6d. each._ _Post Free 7d._ _Cabinets._ CHARLOTTE BRONTE MR. BRONTE THE OLD CHURCH THE NEW CHURCH THE PARSONAGE THE BRONTE GROUP THE INTERIOR OF OLD CHURCH _1s. each._ _Post 13 stamps._ R. BROWN, Stationer, Kirkgate, Haworth. "IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM SAFE?" A SERMON PREACHED IN THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, STOKE BISHOP, ON SUNDAY, JULY 19TH, 1885; BY DAVID WRIGHT, M.A., VICAR. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO., 32, PATERNOSTER ROW. BRISTOL: I.E. CHILLCOTT, 26, CLARE STREET. 1885. _PRICE THREEPENCE._ SERMON. 2 SAMUEL xviii. 29. "IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM SAFE?" The touch of nature comes out strongly here. And it is this touch of nature appearing always in the Old Testament stories which gives to them their reality. The writer of ordinary histories has for the most part his favourites. These are the heroes of his imagination, and the history of their doings is unconsciously tempered by this partiality. And there are others whom he holds in disfavour. And the figure of these on his page is darkened accordingly. And the book of another historian passes over the same ground. But his sympathies are all the other way; and the lineaments are altered; and the heroes are displaced; and forms which are not heroes stand where they had stood. And so the readers of history are mystified. They _do_ get at events. But the actors in them wear no fixed shape. Their form varies.