PREFATORY NOTE

^[p. 2] PREFATORY NOTE

(to pages 3 - 104)

IT has been thought well to preface these lectures with a few words of explanation. They include two series of lectures, the first delivered at Greenwich at the close of last year; and the second at Park Street, Islington, in the beginning of the present year. The connection between the two will be readily perceived; in a sense the second series precedes the first, though they are printed in order of delivery. The subject of the second series is the testimony of “The Christ”, as pervading all the word of God. The first seeks to set forth that which in Christians is appropriate to their part in the testimony, for it must be remembered that the testimony is living, and bound up with the power of the Spirit of God in believers. In view of the coming of the Lord, may God be pleased to awaken in all a deeper interest in the testimony, as being the witness of that which He will shortly display.

F. E. Raven July, 1903.

A short separate address on the same subject has been included (page 105).