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Here are entered works containing sermons preached on special days or for special occasions, e.g. Christmas, Easter, dedications, anniversaries, etc. Single sermons, or works containing sermons of one kind only, are entered under the specific subject, e.g. Confirmation sermons.

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• When the World is on Fire, and Other Evangelistic Messages (c1962), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• Come Unto Me (c1945), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• The Saviour's Invitation, and Other Evangelistic Sermons (c1944), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• The Gospel of Salvation: Evangelistic Addresses (c1941), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• God's Answer to Man's Sin (c1940), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• Ye Must Be Born Again, and Other Sermons (c1939), by Hyman J. Appelman (PDF files at baptistbiblebelievers.com)
• Helps to a Life of Holiness and Usefulness: or, Revival Miscellanies, by James Caughey, ed. by R. W. Allen and Daniel Wise (page images at MOA)
• If Christ Had Not Come, and Other Sermons, by Jarrette E. Aycock (PDF at nnu.edu)
• Paul Rader's Sermons (New York: The Book Stall, 1916), by Paul Rader
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Sermons on Various Subjects (1835), by Charles G. Finney (HTML at gospeltruth.net)
• The Way to God and How to Find It (Chicago et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1884), by Dwight Lyman Moody (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Revival Sermons (ca. 1900), by C. W. Gray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards (HTML at CCEL)

• The Vial Poured Out Upon the Sea: A Remarkable Relation of Certain Pirates Brought Unto a Tragical and Untimely End; Some Conferences With Them, After Their Condemnation; Their Behaviour at Their Execution; and a Sermon Preached on that Occasion (Boston: Printed by T. Fleet for N. Belknap, 1726), by Cotton Mather (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Cry of Sodom Enquired Into, Upon Occasion of the Arraignment and Condemnation of Benjamin Goad, for His Prodigious Villany, by Samuel Danforth, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• The Bible View of Slavery (1861 sermon by Raphall, with contemporary rebuttals by Einhorn and Heilprin), by Morris J. Raphall, contrib. by David Einhorn and Michael Heilprin (illustrated HTML at jewish-history.com)
• Bible View of Slavery: A Discourse, Delivered at the Jewish Synagogue "Bnai Jeshurum", New York, on the Day of the National Fast, Jan. 4, 1861 (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1861), by Morris J. Raphall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• God Our Refuge and Strength in This War: A Discourse Before the Congregations of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, on the Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Appointed by President Davis, Friday, Nov. 15, 1861 (Richmond, VA: W. Hargrave White, 1861), by T. V. Moore
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• God in the War: A Sermon Delivered Before the Legislature of Georgia, in the Capitol at Milledgeville, on Friday, November 15, 1861, Being a Day Set Apart for Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, by His Excellency the President of the Confederate States (Milledgeville: Boughton, Nisbet and Barnes, 1861), by Henry H. Tucker (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Vain is the Help of Man: A Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Savannah, on Thursday, September 15, 1864, Being the Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, Appointed by the Governor of the State of Georgia (Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin, 1864), by Stephen Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Comfort in Tribulation: An Address Delivered in the Reformed Dutch Church, Stapleton, S.I., September 26th, 1861, a Day Kept as a National Fast, by Appointment of the President of the United States (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1861), by Thomas H. Skinner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)
• An Eulogy on George Washington, Late Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, Who Died December 14, 1799: Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, at the Request of Their Committee (second editio; Boston: Manning and Loring, ca. 1800), by George Richards Minot (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An Eulogy on the Illustrious Character of the Late General George Washington, Commander in Chief of All the Armies of the United States of America (with Washington's farewell address; Newburyport, MA: E. M. Blunt, 1800), by Levi Frisbie, contrib. by George Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Important Concerns of Ministers, and the People of Their Charge, at the Day of judgment: Illustrated in a Sermon, Delivered at Rutland, Orange Society, August 22d, 1797, at the Interment of the Rev. Abraham Carpenter, Their Worthy Pastor (1798), by Lemuel Haynes (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Model Pastor: The Life and Character of the Rev. Elisha Yale, D.D., Late of Kingsboro', Drawn Mostly From His Own Diary and Correspondence, Together With the Discourse Preached at His Funeral, January 13, 1853 (Albany: J. Munsell, 1854), by Jeremiah Wood
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Rev. John Todd Edgar, D.D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee (Nashville: J. T. S. Fall, 1860), by First Presbyterian Church (Nashville, Tenn.), contrib. by Joseph Bardwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Sermon, Delivered at Londonderry East-Parish, May 5, 1816, Occasioned by the Death of John Pinkerton, Esq. (Concord, NH: Printed by G. Hough, 1816), by Edward L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The State of the Departed (New York: Thomas N. Stanford, 1857), by John Henry Hobart (multiple formats at Google)
• Funeral Services at the Burial of the Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D. Together with the Sermon, by Stephen Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church, With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847; Also, A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou (Pittsburgh: Ohio A. M. E. Conference, 1850), by A. R. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Character and Work of a Spiritual Watchman Decribed: A Sermon, Delivered at Hinesburgh, February 23, 1791 at the Ordination of the Rev. Reuben Parmerlee (Litchfield, CT: Printed by Collier and Buel., ca. 1792), by Lemuel Haynes (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy (London and New York: Macmillan, 1891), by J. B. Lightfoot (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)
• The Constitution of the Church of England, Scriptural and Apostolical: A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Manchester, on Sunday the 13th of January, 1856 (1856), by E. Dudley Jackson (PDF transcription with embedded commentary at whtech.com)
• A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John Codman to the Pastoral Care of the Second Church of Christ in Dorchester, Dec. 7, 1808 (Boston: J. Belcher, printer, 1808), by William Ellery Channing (multiple formats at Google)
• A Sermon, Preached in St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, October 11, 1865, Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church on the Occasion of the Consecration of the Reverend Charles Todd Quintard, M.D., as Bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee (Philadelphia: C. T. Adams, 1865), by William Bacon Stevens (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Box of Nails for Busy Christian Workers: Bible Readings and Outline Addresses (fourth edition; London: H. R. Allenson, 1906), by C. Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Five-Minute Sermons in Stories for Young Folks (New York et al.: F. Revell Co., c1923), by Henry T. Sell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sermons to Children, by F. W. P. Greenwood (page images at MOA)

• The Eternal Epistle: Sermons on the Epistles for the Church Year (Columbus, OH: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1908), by Simon Peter Long, contrib. by Florence May Welty
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Pulpit Orator: Containing Seven Elaborate Skeleton Sermons, or, Homiletic, Dogmatical, Liturgical, Symbolical, and Moral Sketches for Every Sunday of the Year; Also Elaborate Sermon Skeletons for the Chief Festivals and Other Occasions (12th revised edition, 6 volumes; Ratisbon et al.: F. Pustet and Co., 1911), by John Evangelist Zollner, trans. by Augustine Wirth, contrib. by Andrew Arnold Lambing
  • Volume I (First Sunday of Advent to Fifth Sunday after Epiphany): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Sixth Sunday after Epiphany to Eastern Sunday): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Low Sunday to Fourth Sunday after Pentecost): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Fifth to Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Fifteenth to Last Sunday after Pentecost): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Chief festivals and other occasions): multiple formats at archive.org

• Moody's Anecdotes and Illustrations, Related in His Revival Work by the Great Evangelist (revised edition; Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Pub. Co., 1899), by Dwight Lyman Moody, ed. by J. B. McClure (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and Word)
• A Box of Nails for Busy Christian Workers: Bible Readings and Outline Addresses (fourth edition; London: H. R. Allenson, 1906), by C. Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Incidental Illustrations of the Economy of Salvation, Its Doctrines and Duties (Toronto: G.R. Sanderson, 1856), by Phoebe Palmer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Complete recorded sermons (1200+ sermons in audio and PDF transcriptions and translations, 1947-1965), by William Branham (PDF and audio files at branham.org)
• Evils of the Cities: A Series of Practical and Popular Discourses Delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, c1891), by T. De Witt Talmage (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Five Sermons, by Henry Benjamin Whipple (Gutenberg text)
• Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
• Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
• Our Country for the Sake of the World: A Sermon in Behalf of the American Home Missionary Society, Preached in the Cities of New York and Brooklyn, May 1851 (New York: Printed for the American Home Missionary Society by Baker, Godwin and Co., 1851), by D. H. Riddle
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pioneer Sermons and Addresses (Cincinnati: F. L. Rowe, 1908), ed. by F. L. Rowe, contrib. by Barton W. Stone, Thomas Campbell, Alexander Campbell, Walter Scott, John Smith, William Hayden, Moses E. Lard, Alexander Wilford Hall, William Baxter, Benjamin Franklin, and James M. Mathes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Religion of the Future (New York: American Tract Society, c1894), by David James Burrell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sermon for the Crisis (Detroit: J. M. Arnold and Co., 1867), by James S. Smart (page images at MOA)
• Sermons on Gospel Themes, by Charles G. Finney (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Sermons on Important Subjects (1836), by Charles G. Finney (HTML at gospeltruth.net)
• Sermons Upon the Following Subjects, viz. The Divinity of Jesus Christ; The Milllenium; The Wisdom of God, in the Permission of Sin (Boston: Edes and Gill, and S. Kneeland, 1758), by Joseph Bellamy
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some early pages missing
  • page images at HathiTrust; some early pages missing
• "Whosoever Shall Do the Will of God, the Same is My Brother, and Sister and Mother" (Washington: All Souls' Church, 1906), by Ulysses G. B. Pierce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Work of an Evangelist: Review of Fifty Years (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1881), by A. B. Earle
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Business and Diversion Inoffensive to God, and Necessary for the Comfort and Support of Human Society: A Discourse Utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg-Falls in the Fishing-Season, 1739, by Joseph Seccombe (page images with commentary at UNH)
• Chicago Tabernacle Talks (Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1895), by Geo. F. Hall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Christ of the Church: Sermons, Lectures and Illustrations (Cincinnati: Standard Pub. Co., c1916), by J. V. Coombs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Country Sermons on Free Texts (2 volumes, 1895-1896), by F. Kuegele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dilemma of Santa Claus (Ann Arbor: James Foster House of Art, ca. 1917), by Lloyd C. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical (Boston: S. K. Whipple and Co., 1857), by Edward Norris Kirk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Discourses on Religious Subjects (Middlebury, VT: Printed by Huntington and Fitch, 1805), by Job Swift, contrib. by Lemuel Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Excellency of Christ, by Jonathan Edwards (HTML at CCEL)
• Expository Studies in 1 Corinthians: The Deep Things of God, by Ray C. Stedman (HTML at raystedman.org)
• Expository Studies in 1 John: Life by the Son, by Ray C. Stedman (HTML at raystedman.org)
• Favorite Sermons of John A. Broadus, by John Albert Broadus, ed. by Vernon Latrelle Stanfield (HTML and Word at simplenet.com)
• From Guilt to Glory, by Ray C. Stedman
  • Volume I: HTML at raystedman.org
  • Volume II: HTML at raystedman.org
• If Christ Had Not Come, and Other Sermons, by Jarrette E. Aycock (PDF at nnu.edu)
• Jacob's Ladder: A Book of Sermons Preached by E.M. Borden, at Neosho, Missouri, in October, 1913, Stenographically Reported; Also a Few Written Extracts (Little Rock: Christian Pilot Pub. Co., c1914), by E. M. Borden, ed. by T. B. Clark
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Reason, Faith, and Duty (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1877), by James Walker (page images at MOA)
• Revival Addresses, by R. A. Torrey (multiple formats at CCEL)
• A Sermon at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian, Who Had Been Guilty of Murder, Preached at New Haven in America by Samson Occom; To Which is Added a Short Account of the Late Spread of the Gospel among the Indians; also Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians (London: Reprinted and sold by Buckland et al., 1788), by Samson Occom and Jonathan Edwards
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Sermon, Delivered at Londonderry East-Parish, May 5, 1816, Occasioned by the Death of John Pinkerton, Esq. (Concord, NH: Printed by G. Hough, 1816), by Edward L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermons for the New Life, by Horace Bushnell (page images at MOA)
• Sermons on Living Subjects, by Horace Bushnell (page images at MOA)
• Sermons on Various Subjects (1835), by Charles G. Finney (HTML at gospeltruth.net)
• Sermons Preached on Various Occasions, by James DeKoven (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)
• The Sinner and His Friends: A Volume of Evangelistic Sermons (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1907), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social Dancing Inconsistent with a Christian Profession and Baptismal Vows, by B. M. Palmer (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Ten Sermons of Religion (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co.; New York: C. S. Francis and Co., 1853), by Theodore Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Tragedy of Speed: Sermon on the Wreck of the Titanic (Washington: Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, c1912), by William Dygnum Moss (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twentieth Century Sermons and Addresses: Being a Series of Practical and Doctrinal Discourses by Some of Our Representative Men and Women (Cincinnati: Standard Pub. Co., 1902), ed. by Louis C. Wilson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twenty-Four Short Sermons on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation, by John Bovee Dods (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Way to God and How to Find It (Chicago et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1884), by Dwight Lyman Moody (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The West Virginia Pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Sermons From Living Ministers, With Personal Sketches of the Authors (Wheeling, WV: Frew, Campbell, and Hart, 1883), ed. by Geo. W. Atkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Evangelical Faith (includes NAE Statement of Faith; Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, c1946), by Harold John Ockenga, contrib. by National Association of Evangelicals and Leslie Ray Marston (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital (New York: J. S. Ogilvie and Company, c1886), by T. De Witt Talmage (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity (1841), by Theodore Parker (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• The Eternal Epistle: Sermons on the Epistles for the Church Year (Columbus, OH: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1908), by Simon Peter Long, contrib. by Florence May Welty
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Faith of the Pilgrims: A Sermon Delivered at Plymouth on the Twenty-Second of December, 1831 (Boston: Perkins and Marvin, 1832), by John Codman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Living Pulpit of the Christian Church: A Series of Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical, From Representative Men Among the Disciples of Christ; With a Brief Biographical Sketch and Steel Portrait of Each Contributor (Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll and Co., 1869), ed. by William Thomas Moore
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Matson Meier-Smith: Memories of His Life and Work (New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., 1891), by Mary Stuart White Meier-Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the Life and Religious Labors of Sunderland P. Gardner (Philadelphia, Friends Book Association, 1895), by Sunderland P. Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Revival Sermons (ca. 1900), by C. W. Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John Codman to the Pastoral Care of the Second Church of Christ in Dorchester, Dec. 7, 1808 (Boston: J. Belcher, printer, 1808), by William Ellery Channing (multiple formats at Google)
• Sermons on the Way of Salvation (as originally published in the Oberlin Evangelist), by Charles G. Finney (HTML at gospeltruth.net)
• Three Sermons to Young Men, by William S. Huggins (page images at MOA)
• What Peace Means (c1919), by Henry Van Dyke (Gutenberg text)
• A Work on Revivals; and Sketches In the Life and Preaching of Elder James M. Smith; A Baptist Minister for Thirty-Five Years (Indianapolis: Printed for the author, 1881), by James M. Smith (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Anti-Paedo-Rantism: or, Mr. Samuel Finley's Charitable Plea for the Speechless Examined and Refuted, the Baptism of Believers Maintain'd, and the Mode of it, by Immersion, Vindicated (Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, 1747), by Abel Morgan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Authority of the Church As Set Forth in the Book of Common Prayer Articles and Canons: Sermons Preached in Trinity Chapel, New York, During Lent, 1891 (New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1891), by Morgan Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D. (Atlanta: Franklin Print. and Pub. Co., 1898), by Lucius Henry Holsey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Belief in God: An Examination of Some Fundamental Theistic Problems, by M. J. Savage, To Which is Added an Address on the Intellectual Basis of Faith, by W. H. Savage (Boston: G. H. Ellis, 1881), by Minot J. Savage and William Henry Savage (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Bible in the Counting-House, by Henry A. Boardman (page images at MOA)
• Extract from a Sermon Preached by Bishop Elliott, on the 18th September, Containing a Tribute to the Privates of the Confederate Army, by Stephen Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Nature and Tendency of Balls, by Jacob Ide (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Poor Barny; To Which is Added, A Sermon Respecting Universal Salvation, by a Man of Colour (sermon sometimes attributed to Haynes; Philadelphia: Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia, 1820), contrib. by Lemuel Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
• Two Sermons on Infidelity, Delivered October 24, 1813 (Boston: Cummings and Hilliard; Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1813), by William Ellery Channing
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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