Excerpt from The Light That Lighteth Every Man: Sermons by Alexander Russell; B. D. Late Dean of Adelaide The writer of the sermons in this volume belonged to the class of men who come to the end of their pilgrim age without any very adequate recognition. In early life they give promise of power and of the distinction won by power, which their later years do not fulfil as their friends then hoped. School and college comrades expect great things of them, but the great things do not come. They have gifts which win the approval, a character which wins the confidence and friendship of men of name and fame, and yet the world knows little of them, and its prizes of wealth or popularity are won by men of far inferior ability, not seldom by men of far inferior character. So it is, as it has been from of old. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill. Time and chance still traverse men's hopes and calculations for themselves and others, and what men have called the irony of destiny watches the bursting of the bubbles of a transient reputation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.