PREACHED IN COUNTRY CHURCHES. BY R. DRUMMOND B. RAWNSLEY, M.A. RECTOR OF HALTON HOLEGATE, LINCOLNSHIRE; LATE FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD; 66 HATCHARD & CO. 187 PICCADILLY, Booksellers to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales 1867. 100. 4. 184* . TO THE RIGHT REV. JOHN JACKSON, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN, These Sermons, PREACHED FOR THE MOST PART IN HIS LORDSHIP'S DIOCESE, ARE IN ALL RESPECT AND DUTY INSCRIBED. PREFACE. THE first volume of this series was published in 1858, and has been for some time out of print. The same may be said of two earlier volumes of Village Sermons," published in 1848 and 1853. Since then the writer has often been applied to, by clergymen, and others, for copies of the above works. This must be his excuse if he now, once more, adds to the list of printed sermons, by sending forth a second, and probably, his last series of "Sermons preached in Country Churches." Perhaps he may be allowed to add, that his aim in the present, as in his previous volumes, has been to avoid controversy, and to set forth, in |