Excerpt from Christianity and Recent Speculations: Six Lectures by Minister of the Free Church; With a Preface I DO not see much occasion for any preliminary re marks of mine to introduce this little volume to the public; nor have I indeed any thing of importance to say. But as my colleagues seemed to think that it fell to the senior member of the body to prepare some sort of opening statement on his own behalf and theirs, and as that was made a condition of the publication, I felt that necessity was laid upon me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.