This little group of Rugby Sermons is to be taken and read as being
nothing more than a few stray chips from the workshop of a busy
schoolmaster, brought together by a kindly publisher, and arranged as he
thought best.
They represent no body of continuous doctrine. In one case the subject
may have been suggested by the season of the Christian year; in another
it was the meeting or the parting at the beginning or the end of a term
that suggested it; or more frequently some incident in the school life of
the moment.
Such, indeed, almost inevitably is the teaching of a schoolmaster,
engrossed in the training of the boys committed to his charge and growing
under his hand towards the destiny of their endless life.
To those boys, and to the masters, my colleagues, and to other fellow-
labourers--some gone to their rest, some still doing their appointed
work--I dedicate this brief reminder of our common life in days of happy
fellowship.
J. HEREFORD.
_July_ 1905.