Practical Religion

About this book

Twenty-one plain papers on the daily duties, experience, dangers and privileges of professing Christians. Ryle wrote for people who had no time for subtlety, and the chapters read like what they were: addresses to a country parish, on self-inquiry, prayer, Bible reading, charity, zeal, formality, and the end of all things.

About J. C. Ryle

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) was an Oxford cricketer and heir to a banking fortune until his father's bank failed, which he later said was the making of him. He spent decades in rural parishes writing tracts that sold in millions, and in 1880 became the first Bishop of Liverpool, serving until he was eighty-three. His prose is deliberately plain.

Text from Project Gutenberg #38162; in the public domain.

Contents

1. Self-Inquiry
2. Self-Exertion 🔒
3. Reality 🔒
4. Prayer 🔒
5. Bible-Reading 🔒
6. Going to the Table 🔒
7. Charity 🔒
8. Zeal 🔒
9. Freedom 🔒
10. Happiness 🔒
11. Formality 🔒
12. The World 🔒
13. Riches and Poverty 🔒
14. The Best Friend 🔒
15. Sickness 🔒
16. The Family of God 🔒
17. Our Home! 🔒
18. Heirs of God 🔒
19. The Great Gathering 🔒
20. The Great Separation 🔒
21. Eternity! 🔒