n religion and of faith in young men. The
University announced the belief that religion, rationally presented,
will always have for healthy-minded young men a commanding interest.
This faith has been abundantly justified. There has become familiar
among us, through the devotion of successive staffs of Preachers, a
clearer sense of the simplicity and reality of religion, which, for
many young men, has enriched the meaning of University life. No one
who has had the slightest part in administering such a work can sum up
its present issues without feeling on the one hand a deep sense of
personal insufficiency, and on the other hand a large and solemn hope._

_I have indicated such sources of suggestion for these addresses as I
noted at the time of their delivery, but it may well be that some such
indebtedness remains, against my will, unacknowledged._

CAMBRIDGE, October, 1896.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

I. THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO, BUT TO MINISTER . . 4
III. THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER . . . . . . . . . . 7
IV. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
V. THE CENTURION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
VI. SPIRITUAL ATHLETICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
VII. THE RHYTHM OF LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
VIII. THAT OTHER DISCIPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
IX. MORAL TIMIDITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
X. THE HEAVENLY VISION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
XI. THE BREAD AND WATER OF LIFE . . . . . . . . . 30
XII. THE RECOIL OF JUDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . 32
XIII. THE INCIDENTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
XIV. LEARNING AND LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
XV. FILLING LIFE FULL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
XVI. TAKING ONE'S SHARE OF HARDSHIPS . . . . . . . 44
XVII. CHRISTIAN UNITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
XVIII. THE PATIENCE OF FAITH . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
XIX. THE BOND-SERVANT AND THE SON . . . . . . . . . 52
XX. DYING TO LIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
XXI. CARRYING YOUR OWN CROSS . . . . . . . . . . . 56
XXII. THE POOR IN SPIRIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
XXIII. THE MOURNERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60