Excerpt from Divine Overruling This book, such as it is, contains my last public utterances as Lady Margaret Professor. When I had no longer any doubt that the time had come when I ought to retire, I planned a short course of lectures which might perhaps be suitable to mark the close Of the tenure of the chair as an Inaugural marks its begin ning. It happened that I was also called upon to preach before the University in the regular course; and I have ventured to print this sermon along with the lectures. The four chapters which are thus formed were not exactly designed in the first instance as a continuous series. And yet, apart from the fact that they were all written at the same time, there is a real thread Of connexion between them. I have tried to express this in the common title under which I have grouped them. The underlying thought is that not only the field Of what we call special revela tion but the whole process of religious evolution must be included in one great divine scheme, which. 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.