True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries

Transcribed from the 1884 Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
by CHARLES KINGSLEY,
late rector of eversley; chaplain to the queen and to the prince of wales.
A BOOK FOR SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ LIBRARIES .
eleventh thousand.
London: kegan paul, trench, & co., 1 paternoster square.
1884.
The Rights of Translation and of Reproduction are Reserved .
Dedicated by kind permission to General Sir WILLIAM CODRINGTON, G.C.B., and Admiral WELLESLEY, C.B., in memory of CHARLES KINGSLEY, who was proud of their friendship, and loved and honoured them as he loved and honoured all brave soldiers and sailors.
“Yet was he courteous still to every wight, And loved them that did to armes incline.” Spenser.
This little volume is selected from the unpublished sermons and addresses of Charles Kingsley by the request of a Colonel of Artillery, and with the sanction of an Army Chaplain of long experience, who knew the influence of his writings on soldiers, and who wish that that influence may live, though he is no longer here. The Lecture on Cortez was given at Aldershot Camp in 1858, and the Address to Brave Soldiers and Sailors written for and sent out to the troops before Sebastopol in the winter of 1855, when Mr. Kingsley’s own heart, with that of all England, was grieving over the sufferings of our noble army in the Crimea. F. E. K.