Excerpt from Three Christmas Sermons: Sunday, December 25, 1881 If we had limited ourselves to our original purpose, and printed this little book simply as a memorial gift to members of our family, no apology or explanation would have been needed. Now that we have decided to offer to a wider circle of those who are bereaved in the departure of our father, these utterances of "the comfort wherewith we were comforted of God" on the sorrowful yet joyful Christmas-day just past, perhaps the exceptional character and circumstances of the book will still excuse us from any long preface. These three sermons are printed as nearly as may be, in the form in which they were preached; but the third, not having been originally written, has had to be reproduced from memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.