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Title: True Words for Brave Men

Author: Charles Kingsley

Release Date: December 19, 2006 [eBook #20138]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1884 Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

TRUE WORDS FOR BRAVE MEN.

BY
CHARLES KINGSLEY,

LATE RECTOR OF EVERSLEY; CHAPLAIN TO THE QUEEN AND TO THE PRINCE OF
WALES.

_A BOOK FOR SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' LIBRARIES_.

ELEVENTH THOUSAND.

LONDON:
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

1884.

_The Rights of Translation and of Reproduction are Reserved_.

Dedicated
BY KIND PERMISSION
TO
GENERAL SIR WILLIAM CODRINGTON, G.C.B.,
AND
ADMIRAL WELLESLEY, C.B.,
IN MEMORY OF
CHARLES KINGSLEY,
WHO WAS PROUD OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP,
AND LOVED AND HONOURED THEM
AS HE LOVED AND HONOURED
ALL BRAVE SOLDIERS
AND SAILORS.

"Yet was he courteous still to every wight,
And loved them that did to armes incline."

SPENSER.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

This little volume is selected from the unpublished sermons and addresses
of Charles Kingsley by the request of a Colonel of Artillery, and with
the sanction of an Army Chaplain of long experience, who knew the
influence of his writings on soldiers, and who wish that that influence
may live, though he is no longer here. The Lecture on Cortez was given
at Aldershot Camp in 1858, and the Address to Brave Soldiers and Sailors
written for and sent out to the troops before Sebastopol in the winter of
1855, when Mr. Kingsley's own heart, with that of all England, was
grieving over the sufferings of our noble army in the Crimea. F. E. K.

I. THE GOOD CENTURION; OR, THE MAN UNDER AUTHORITY.

"And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto Him a
centurion, beseeching Him and saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home,
sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus said unto him, I
will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am
not worthy that Th