Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). * * * * * [Illustration: cover] [Illustration: titlepage] The World's Great Sermons VOLUME VI H. W. BEECHER TO PUNSHON THE WORLD'S GREAT SERMONS COMPILED BY GRENVILLE KLEISER Formerly of Yale Divinity School Faculty; Author of "How to Speak in Public," Etc. With Assistance from Many of the Foremost Living Preachers and Other Theologians INTRODUCTION BY LEWIS O. BRASTOW, D.D. Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology in Yale University IN TEN VOLUMES VOLUME VI--H. W. BEECHER TO PUNSHON FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK and LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY _Printed in the United States of America_ CONTENTS VOLUME VI Page H. W. BEECHER (1813-1887). Immortality 1 CHAPIN (1814-1880). Nicodemus: The Seeker after Religion 27 STANLEY (1815-1881). In Memoriam--Thomas Carlyle 51 VAUGHAN (1816-1897). God Calling to Man 67 NEWMAN HALL (1816-1902). Christian Victory 85 ROBERTSON (1816-1853). The Loneliness of Christ 111 HITCHCOCK (1817-1887). Eternal Atonement 131 KINGSLEY (1819-1875). The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth 147 CAIRD (1820-1898). Religion in Common Life 167 STORRS (1821-1900). The Permanent Motive in Missionary Work 195 PUNSHON (1824-1881). Zeal in the Cause of Christ 219 HENRY WARD BEECHER IMMORTALITY BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE HENRY WARD BEECHER, preacher, orator, lecturer, writer, editor, and reformer, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1813. He was by nature and training a great pulpit orator. Mr. Beecher kept himself in perfect physical condition for his work. He has described a course of vocal exercises which he pursued in the open air for a period of three years. "The drill I underwent," he says, "produced, not a rhetorical manner, but a flexible instrument, that accommodated itself readily to every kind of thought and every shape of feeling." He had deep sympathy for all men, and this with his intense dramatic power often carried him into the wildest and most exalted flights of oratory. Phillips Brooks styled him the greatest preacher in America, and he is generally regarded as the most highly gifted of modern preachers. He was fearless, patriotic, clear-headed, witty, and self-sacrificing. Dr. Wilkinson calls him "the greatest pulpit orator the world ever saw." He died in 1887. H. W. BEECHER 1813-1887 IMMORTALITY[1]