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: coverpage] [Illustration: titlepage] _The World's Great Sermons_ VOLUME VII HALE TO FARRAR 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 VII--HALE TO FARRAR FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK and LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY _Printed in the United States of America_ CONTENTS VOLUME VII. HALE (Born in 1822). _Page_ The Colonization of the Desert 1 MAGEE (1821-1891). The Miraculous Stilling of the Storm 19 SEISS (1823-1904). The Wonderful Testimonies 39 MACLAREN (Born in 1826). The Pattern of Service 63 CROSBY (1826-1891). The Prepared Worm 87 DALE (1829-1895). The Argument from Experience 103 LIDDON (1829-1890). Influences of the Holy Spirit 121 W. M. TAYLOR (1829-1895). Christ before Pilate--Pilate before Christ 143 JOHN HALL (1829-1899). Liberty Only in Truth 163 BACON (Born in 1830). God Indwelling 179 JOSEPH PARKER (1830-1902). A Word to the Weary 197 MCKENZIE (Born in 1830). The Royal Bounty 209 FARRAR (1831-1903). Work in the Groaning Creation 227 HALE THE COLONIZATION OF THE DESERT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Edward Everett Hale, Congregationalist divine and author, was born in Boston in 1822. He was graduated at Harvard in 1839 and became a Unitarian preacher in 1846 at Worcester. In 1850 he removed to Boston, where his most important life's work was accomplished as a preacher and writer. A collected edition of his writings, in ten volumes, was published in 1901. His varied literary enterprises and undertakings have been too many to be enumerated here. His most famous work is "The Man Without a Country." He is at present chaplain to the United States Senate. HALE BORN IN 1822 THE COLONIZATION OF THE DESERT _God saw everything that he had made. And behold, it was very good._--Gen. i., 31.