THE VICTORY OF FAITH. BY JULIUS CHARLES HARE, M.A., ARCHDEACON OF LEWIS, RECTOR OF HERSTMONCEUX, AND LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Third Edition. EDITED BY E. H. PLUMPTRE, M.A., PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AT KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON; VICAR OF BICKLEY. WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTICES BY THE LATE PROFESSOR MAURICE AND DEAN STANLEY. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1874. All Rights reserved. CONTENTS. PAGE ESSAY ON ARCHDEACON HARE'S POSITION IN THE CHURCH, WITH REFERENCE TO THE PARTIES THAT DIVIDE IT. By FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, M.A., ARCHDEACON HARE. BY DEAN STANLEY, OFFICE AND PROVINCE OF FAITH, 63 PREFACE. THE sermons on the Victory of Faith, by Archdeacon Hare, have for some years been out of print. They are now republished, in the belief that as they were the utterance of one who was in no small measure in advance of his own generation, measuring forces and watching currents of thought of which few then took account, so they are not yet altogether left behind by its advancing waves. Rapid as that advance has been, tending to an ever keener and more sharply defined antagonism between the schools of superstition and unbelief, clearing the middle ground and threatening to leave no room for those who belong to neither school, and enter their protests against each, there are still, it is believed, many who cannot accept either the theory of Ultramontanism or that of Secularism, who cannot even attach themselves to any of the parties in the Church of England, whose drift seems, consciously or unconsciously, to be sweeping them on to the one or the other issue. Seekers after truth, who, when they pray "Increase our faith," do not B |