CHRIST THE TRUE ALTAR, AND OTHER SERMONS, WITH THE CHARGE THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY NOT SACERDOTAL BUT EVANGELISTIC. BY THE LATE SAMUEL WALDEGRAVE, D.D., Lord Bishop of Carlisle. With Entroduction BY THE REV. JOHN CHARLES RYLE, M. A., LONDON: WILLIAM HUNT AND COMPANY, HOLLES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE; AND AVE MARIA LANE, PATERNOSTER row. 1875. Introduction. THE volume now in the reader's hands requires very little prefatory explanation. It contains nine Sermons preached at various times by the Hon. and Rt. Rev. SAMUEL WALDEGRAVE, late Bishop of Carlisle, and a Charge delivered to the clergy and churchwardens of his diocese at his last ordinary visitation in the year 1867. Single sermons and Charges, in a bustling, hurrying age like the present, have a very ephemeral existence. They are too often thrown aside, and buried under a heap of pamphlets, after a brief and hasty perusal. It has been justly thought that these scattered remains of the late Bishop are worthy of a better fate, and deserve to |