01.000 - Preface

PREFACE. THE lectures given to the public in this volume were delivered, for the most part, on successive Sabbath evenings, in the Church of which I am minister. They were listened to by large congregations, and reports of them that appeared in the local Press excited a good deal of interest. Many requests came to me from my brethren in the ministry and others, asking me to put the lectures in a more permanent form. These requests were not merely numerous but so representative that I thought it my duty to comply with them. The lectures have been published practically as they were delivered. A few local allusions that were not of general interest have been omitted. The lecture form has been retained. The lectures are now sent forth in the hope that they may be of some service to the cause of truth.

W. J. LOWE.

LONDONDERRY, April 1899.