Excerpt from The Incarnation and Other Sermons: Being Gatherings From a Colonial Ministry

"Every 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.

My hearty thanks are due, and are hereby tendered, to all subscribers for a response to my proposal beyond my expectations, and I am specially thankful for many letters and short notes - all kind, some touchingly so - received from ministers and members of various religious communions, as well as my own. The general tone of these communications increases my serious fear lest the book, as it is, may disappoint many of the writers. I see many blemishes in it, and other and more impartial eyes will doubtless see more.

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