OF BELIEF: BEING Lectures to Young Men, DELIVERED AT THE ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LONDON. WITH A PREFACE BY J. OSWALD DYKES, D.D. LOV LONDON: HODDER & STOUGHTON, MDCCCLXXIV. 100. w. 308. PREFACE. D URING the spring of last year a short series of lectures to young men was delivered at the College of the Presbyterian Church in England, and afterwards published under the title, "Present Difficulties in Theology."* The fact that a second edition of that volume has been called for and nearly exhausted within twelve months encourages the hope that it was found appropriate to the wants of the time, and of service to *London: Hodder and Stoughton. Second Edition. 1873. the class for whom it was primarily designed. The present is, in a sense, a companion volume to the former one, for it contains a similar course of lectures, also four in number, which have this spring been addressed, at the same place, to audiences of the same description. The lecturers, however, as well as their subjects, are all different, so that the two books have little in common beyond the accident of their origin. It is earnestly desired that this year's publication may be found still more useful than its predecessor in promoting among Christians an intelligent faith in some of those fundamental verities of our holy religion which at this time are so persistently assailed. Various indications render it probable |