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The following chapters, with the exception of the sixth, comprise a course of lectures which were pre pared for the students of Andover Theological Semi nary, and delivered at Andover in November, 1886, The third chapter had also previously been used as a lecture, in Cincinnati, before the students of Lane Theological Seminary. The greater part of the first, second, fourth, and fifth chapters subsequently appeared in the Andover Review, with whose kind permission they are reprinted here. The whole matter, with con siderable additions and some changes, is now respect fully ofiered to the public in the hope that it may contribute to the general information and' deepen the general interest in the great subject with which it deals, and may thus help to prepare the way for the adeption of 'more earnest and systematic efforts look ing toward the advancement of the Redeemer's king dom among the neglected masses of the great towns.
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