A Prefatory Word of Explanation

Eing unexpectedly called to service at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, during the illness and after the departure of the beloved pastor, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from October, 1891, to June, 1892, it became a part of my privilege to speak from week to week before that intelligent and most responsive body of students then in the Pastor’s College founded by Mr. Spurgeon.

I had left in America all memoranda of every sort which might have aided in this part of my work, as this sort of service was wholly unforeseen by me; and I could only speak with such hasty preparations as the severe strain of other duties allowed. These lectures lay no claim to completeness either of matter or style. But the interest which they awakened led to their reproduction, after delivery, by the aid of a stenographer.

X PREFATORY WORD.

If any to whom the Word of the Lord is. precious in these days, when there are so few true seers of God to whom the open vision is ^Mven, find herein any help to the preaching which is born of deep conviction, and baptized of the Holy Spirit, the one desire of my heart is fulfilled.

Metropolitan Tahkrnacle,
London, /?/;/<•, 1892.