Prefatory Note

The following chapters, except the third and the ninth, reproduce nearly word for word a series of addresses delivered to the “Cambridge University Church Society,” in the October term of 1884. They are offered to the reader with entire submission of the contents to the authority of the Holy criptures, and with the earnest prayer that the Eternal Master will mercifully use for His work whatever in them is of His truth.

The Scriptuie quotations are made, as a rule, from the Authorized Version, with an occasional variation where a more literal rendering appeared to add point or force.

“How blest are they who still abide Close shelter’d in Thy bleeding side! Who life and strength from Thee derive, And by Thee move, and in Thee live.

“Firstborn of many brethren Thou! To Thee, lo, all our souls we bow; To Thee our hearts and hands we give; Thine may we die, Thine may we live.”

ZlNEENDORF, (.T. WESLEY,