Excerpt from The Incarnation and Other Sermons: Being Gatherings From a Colonial MinistryEvery author, says a recent writer, has, of course, a more or less sufficient reason for sending forth his book to the world.To the reasons that I have already given in a circular, which the subscribers to this volume have seen - mainly the requests of friends and the shortness of my time now Whether sufficient or not, I shall not here add.I there said that the sermons to be published would not be polemic, and any such utterances here are few and far between, but I have not omitted things that may seem so to some, which were really preached formerly, when the, truth, as I see it, seemed to demand their retention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.