not in 6122.18 Joni INTERPRETATIONS OF LIFE AND RELIGION BY WALTON W. BATTERSHALL, D.D. RECTOR OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH, ALBANY • To speak the word of God afresh in each age, PÈRE GRATRY: Henri Perreyve. New York PREFATORY NOTE. THESE sermons, with three exceptions, were preached in St. Andrew's Dune-Church, Southampton, Long Island, and are published at the request of the Trustees and Congregation. The exceptions are sermons II., VII., and XVII., which are included in order to round out the circle of thought. The volume is put forth in the hope that it may contain some word, which shall prove helpful to those who, amid the theological confusions of the day, and the affirmations and silences of its science, are trying to find foothold for faith and sanction for the moral and spiritual life. W. W. B. St. Peter's Rectory, ALBANY, December, 1897. CONTENTS. I. THE ORIGIN OF PRAYER .. . .. 3 II. THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE .... III. INADEQUATE THEOLOGIES ..... IV. THE FATHERS AND THE CHILDREN ... V. THE JOYLESSNESS OF MODERN LIFE . 55 VI. SINAI . . . . . . . . . . . . VII. GOD'S WORD TO THE WORLD. ... VIII. THE PEACE OF Christ ..... IX. THE FULL STATURE OF A MAN... X. THE MEASURING REED ....... 127 XI. PHASES OF UNREAL RELIGION ... 141 XII. DISGUISES AND DEFIANCES. ..... 155 XIII. THE GREAT HERESY . ...... 171 XIV. MODERN SAINTHOOD ....... 185 XV. THE COMING KINGDOM ...... 199 XVI. THE CHRIST-TREE. ....... 213 XVII. THE HUMAN SIDE OF CHRISTIANITY. 229 XVIII. IMMORTALITY ......... 241 |