The World’s Great Sermons (10 vols.)

by Grenville Kleiser

Publisher:

Funk & Wagnalls

, 1908

Overview

The World’s Great Sermons brings together 10 volumes full of the best sermons ever preached—from the fourth century to the twentieth! Over 100 notable preachers are represented, from Basil of Caesarea to Charles Spurgeon. Each sermon is preceded by a short biography of its author and after each sermon title the Scripture references that are covered in the sermon are given. These sermons were selected not only for their literary and rhetorical excellences, but in every case for their deep spiritual insight and for strengthening your Christian faith.

A treasure-trove of biblical wisdom and practical advice for living faithfully, with the Logos edition all Scripture passages in The World’s Great Sermons (10 vols.) are tagged and appear on mouse-over. Logos also makes navigating lengthy, multi-volume works easier than ever—topics and Scripture references can be searched instantly with the click of a mouse. The World’s Great Sermons (10 vols.) is perfect for scholars, students, pastors, and laypersons alike.

Key Features

• Over 100 notable preachers are represented
• Sermons from the fourth century to the twentieth
• Searchable by subject matter or Scripture reference
• Great for small group discussion or personal devotional reading

Product Details

• Title: The World’s Great Sermons
• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Volumes: 10
• Pages: 2,417

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 1

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 234

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Volume one of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Basil of Caesarea (329–379)
  • “The Creation of the World”

• John Chrysostom (347–407)
  • “Excessive Grief at the Death of Friends”

• St. Augustine (354–430)
  • “The Recovery of Sight by the Blind”

• John Wycliffe (c. 1328–1384)
  • “Christ’s Real Body Not in the Eucharist”

• Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498)
  • “The Ascension of Christ”

• Martin Luther (1483–1546)
  • “The Method and Fruits of Justification”

• Hugh Latimer (1485–1555)
  • “On Christian Love”

• Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560)
  • “The Safety of the Virtuous”

• John Knox (1514–1572)
  • “The First Temptation of Christ”

• John Calvin (1509–1564)
  • “Enduring Persecution for Christ”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 2

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 242

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Volume two of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Thomas Hooker (1586–1647)
  • “The Activity of Faith; or, Abraham’s Imitators”

• Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
  • “Christ’s Advent to Judgment”

• Richard Baxter (1615–1691)
  • “Making Light of Christ and Salvation”

• Jacques-Bénigne Bousset (1627–1704)
  • “The Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Grande Condé”

• John Bunyan (1628–1688)
  • “The Heavenly Footman”

• John Tillotson (1630–1694)
  • “The Reasonableness of a Resurrection”

• Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704)
  • “The Passion of the Christ”

• John Howe (1630–1705)
  • “The Redeemer’s Tears over Lost Souls”

• François Fenelon (1651–1715)
  • “The Saints Converse with God”

• Robert South (1638–1716)
  • “The Image of God in Man”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 3

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 242

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Volume three of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663–1742)
  • “The Small Number of the Elect”

• Jacques Saurin (1677–1730)
  • “Paul before Felix and Drusilla”

• Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)
  • “Spiritual Light”

• John Wesley (1703–1791)
  • “God’s Love to Fallen Man”

• George Whitefield (1714–1770)
  • “The Method of Grace”

• Hugh Blair (1718–1800)
  • “The Hour and the Event of All Time”

• Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817)
  • “The Sovereignty of God”

• Robert Hall (1764–1831)
  • “Marks of Love to God”

• Christmas Evans (1766–1838)
  • “The Fall and Recovery of Man”

• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)
  • “Christ’s Resurrection an Image of Our New Life”

• John Mitchell Mason (1770–1829)
  • “Messiah’s Throne”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 4

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 234

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Volume four of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Lyman Beecher (1775–1863)
  • “The Government of God Desirable”

• William Ellery Channing (1780–1842)
  • “The Character of Christ”

• Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847)
  • “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection”

• Alexander Campbell (1788–1866)
  • “The Missionary Cause”

• Edward Irving (1792–1834)
  • “Preparation for Consulting the Oracles of God”

• Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)
  • “Alive in God”

• Francis Wayland (1796–1865)
  • “A Day in the Life of Jesus of Nazareth”

• Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)
  • “The Mysteries of Christianity”

• John Summerfield (1798–1825)
  • “The Heavenly Inheritance”

• John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
  • “God’s Will the End of Life”

• Horace Bushnell (1802–1876)
  • “Unconscious Influence”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 5

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 232

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Volume five of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873)
  • “The New Heart”

• Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872)
  • “The Valley of Dry Bones”

• James Martineau (1805–1900)
  • “Parting Words”

• Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892)
  • “The Triumph of the Church”

• Edwards Amasa Park (1808–1900)
  • “The Prominence of the Atonement”

• Matthew Simpson (1810–1884)
  • “The Resurrection of Our Lord”

• Theodore Parker (1810–1860)
  • “The Transient and Permanent in Christianity”

• Norman Macleod (1812–1872)
  • “The True Christian Ministry”

• James Bowling Mozley (1813–1878)
  • “The Reversal of Human Judgment”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 6

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 243

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Volume six of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)
  • “Immortality”

• Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880)
  • “Nicodemus: The Seeker after Religion”

• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881)
  • “In Memoriam—Thomas Carlyle”

• Charles John Vaughan (1816–1897)
  • “God Calling to Man”

• Newman Hall (1816–1902)
  • “Christian Victory”

• Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853)
  • “The Loneliness of Christ”

• Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (1817–1887)
  • “Eternal Atonement”

• Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)
  • “The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth”

• John Caird (1820–1898)
  • “Religion in Common Life”

• Richard Salter Storrs (1821–1900)
  • “The Permanent Motive in Missionary Work”

• William Morley Punshon (1824–1881)
  • “Zeal in the Cause of Christ”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 7

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 242

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Volume seven of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909)
  • “The Colonization of the Desert”

• William Magee (1821–1891)
  • “The Miraculous Stilling of the Storm”

• Joseph Seiss (1823–1904)
  • “The Wonderful Testimonies”

• Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910)
  • “The Pattern of Service”

• Howard Crosby (1826–1891)
  • “The Prepared Worm”

• Robert William Dale (1829–1895)
  • “The Argument from Experience”

• Henry Liddon (1829–1890)
  • “Influences of the Holy Spirit”

• William M. Taylor (1829–1895)
  • “Christ before Pilate—Pilate before Christ”

• John Hall (1829–1899)
  • “Liberty Only in Truth”

• Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1830–1907)
  • “God Indwelling”

• Alexander McKenzie (1830–1914)
  • “The Royal Bounty”

• Joseph Parker (1830–1902)
  • “A Word to the Weary”

• Frederic Farrar (1831–1903)
  • “Work in the Groaning Creation”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 8

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 245

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Volume eight of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832–1901)
  • “A Bloody Monster”

• Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)
  • “Songs in the Night”

• Henry Codman Potter (1834–1908)
  • “Memorial Discourse on Phillips Brooks”

• Lyman Abbott (1835–1922)
  • “The Divinity of Humanity”

• Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)
  • “The Pride of Life”

• Washington Gladden (1836–1918)
  • “The Prince of Life”

• John Clifford (1836–1923)
  • “The Forgiveness of Sins”

• D. L. Moody (1837–1899)
  • “What Think Ye of Christ?”

• Charles Henry Fowler (1837–1908)
  • “The Spirit of Christ”

• Alexander Whyte (1837–1921)
  • “Experience”

• William L. Watkinson (1838–1925)
  • “The Transfigured Sackcloth”

• George C. Lorimer (1838–1904)
  • “The Fall of Satan”

• William John Knox Little (1839–1921)
  • “Thirst Satisfied”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 9

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 251

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Volume nine of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822–1909)
  • “The Value of Life”

• John A. Broadus (1827–1895)
  • “Let Us Have Peace with God”

• Ernest Roland Wilberforce (1840–1907)
  • “The Mother Church”

• John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916)
  • “Education and the Future of Religion”

• Robert Stuart MacArthur (1841–1923)
  • “Christ—The Question of the Centuries”

• William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918)
  • “The Age of Progress”

• Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933)
  • “Constructive Faith”

• Francis Landey Patton (1843–1932)
  • “Glorification Through Death”

• Henry Scott Holland (1847–1918)
  • “The Story of a Disciple’s Faith”

• James Stalker (1848–1927)
  • “Enduring Persecution for Christ”

• David James Burrell (1849–1926)
  • “How to Become a Christian”

• John Watson (1850–1907)
  • “Optimism”

• William Robertson Nicoll (1851–1923)
  • “Gethsemane, the Rose Garden of God”

• Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933)
  • “The Meaning of Manhood”

The World’s Great Sermons, vol. 10

• Editor: Grenville Kleiser
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 252

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Volume ten of The World’s Great Sermons includes:

• Henry Drummond (1851–1897)
  • “The Greatest Thing in the World”

• Charles Wagner (1851–1918)
  • “I Am a Voice”

• Charles Angier Gordon (1853–1929)
  • “Man in the Image of God”

• William James Dawson (1854–1928)
  • “Christ Among the Common Things of Life”

• George Adam Smith (1856–1942)
  • “Assurance in God”

• Frank Wakely Gunsaulus (1856–1921)
  • “The Bible vs. Infidelity”

• Newell Dwight Hillis (1858–1929)
  • “God the Unwearied Guide”

• Charles Edward Jefferson (1860–1937)
  • “The Reconciliation”

• G. Campbell Morgan (1863–1945)
  • “The Perfect Ideal for Life”

• S. Parkes Cadman (1864–1936)
  • “A New Day for Missions”

• John Henry Jowett (1864–1923)
  • “Apostolic Optimism”

Volume ten also includes an index to the preachers, sermons, and Scripture texts used for the whole series.

About Grenville Kleiser

Grenville Kleiser (1868–1935) was an author, editor, and motivational speaker. He wrote numerous works on the art of public speaking, including How to Argue and Win, Successful Methods of Public Speaking, How to Improve Your Conversation, Christ: The Master Speaker, and How to Build Mental Power.