Excerpt from Thursday Mornings at the City Temple The more formal worship of the Sabbath. It has been a custom from the first to allow applause and interjections on Thursday which, of course, would be out of place on Sunday; Dr. Parker's practice in this respect has been continued under my ministry. It does no harm - rather, I think, the moderate indulgence in the expression of feeling by the congregation helps to keep preacher and hearers en rapport with each other. The only danger associated with it became apparent at the height of the New Theology controversy, when a few eccentric individuals made their way to the City Temple Thursday service with the express object of creating disturbance. Happily this behaviour has ceased without affecting for the worse the latitude allowed to the regular congregation. It may be that the character of the congregation, and the nature of the service, have influenced to some extent the form as well as the matter of the sermons contained in this volume. They may be more colloquial and direct than is usual with pulpit utterances. As most of them were preached while the New Theology controversy was raging most fiercely, the controversial note will be detected here and there. It was impossible to avoid it, although I hope it contains nothing of bitterness and ran cour. When the history of this period comes to be written, those who take the trouble to read it will be amazed at the extremes to which serious minded people permitted themselves to go in their alarm for the orthodox positions. No falsehood, however absurd and extravagant, seems to have been too much for their eager credulity to swallow. 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.