Excerpt from The Present World Situation: With Special Reference to the Demands, Made Upon the Christian Church in Relation to Non-Christian Lands Under the auspices of Andover Theological Seminary, five of the chapters of this book were given as lectures in April, 1914, in San ders Theater at Harvard University, and were repeated at the Boston University School of Theology. Chapter II is an address deliv ered in January, 1914, at the Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement in Kansas City. Chapter VII is reproduced, with slight changes, from The International Review of Missions for April, 1914. 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.