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The After-glow of a Great Reign, by A. F.
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Title: The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral
Author: A. F. Winnington Ingram
Release Date: January 23, 2007 [eBook #20430]
Language: English
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THE AFTERGLOW OF A GREAT REIGN
Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral
by the
RIGHT REV. A. F. WINNINGTON INGRAM, D.D. Bishop Suffragan of Stepney, and Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral
London Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. 3, Paternoster Buildings, E C 1901.
CONTENTS.
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I. HER TRUTHFULNESS II. HER MORAL COURAGE III. THE RAINBOW ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE IV. THE LAW OF KINDNESS
The After-glow of a Great Reign.
I.
HER TRUTHFULNESS.
"Behold, Thou requirest truth in the inward parts."--Psalm li. 6.
We stand to-day like men who have just watched a great sunset. On some beautiful summer evening we must all of us have watched a sunset, and we know how, first of all, we see the great orb slowly decline towards the horizon; then comes the sense of coming loss; then it sets amid a blaze of glory, and then it is