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Title: The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments
Author: E. E. Holmes
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THE CHURCH
HER BOOKS AND HER SACRAMENTS
BY
E. E. HOLMES, B.D.
ARCHDEACON OF LONDON
A COURSE OF INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN AT ALL SAINTS
MARGARET STREET, IN LENT, 1910
_NEW IMPRESSION_
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
1914
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
IN WATCHINGS OFTEN: Addresses to Nurses and Others. With a Preface by
the Right Rev. EDWARD KING, D.D., late Bishop of Lincoln. With a
Frontispiece (the Crucifixion, by PERUGINO). Crown 8vo, paper boards,
2s. 6d.; cloth, 3s. 6d.
PRAYER AND ACTION; or, The Three Notable Duties (Prayer, Fasting, and
Almsgiving). With an Introduction by the Bishop of London. Crown 8vo,
2s. 6d. net.
IMMORTALITY. Crown 8vo, 4s. net. (_Oxford Library of Practical
Theology_.)
PARADISE: A Course of Addresses on the State of the Faithful Departed.
Crown 8vo, paper covers, 1s. net; cloth, 2s. net. *** _Extracted from
"Immortality"_
RESPONSIBILITY: An Address to Girls. 16mo, paper covers, 4d. net;
bound in rexine, 1s. net. Cheap Edition, 1d. net.
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.,
LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
TO
H. F. B. M.
{vii}
INTRODUCTION
These Lectures were originally delivered as the Boyle Lectures for
1910, and were afterwards repeated in a more popular form at All
Saints, Margaret Street. They are now written from notes taken at
their delivery at All Saints, and the writer's thanks are due to the
kindness of those who lent him the notes. Some explanation of their
elementary character seems called for. The Lecturer's object was
twofold:--
(1) To remind an instructed congregation of that which they knew
already--and to make them more grateful for the often underrated
privilege
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