Excerpt from The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 2005, Vol. 26 R. Chairman, mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not quite why I'm doing this, and neither are you. What can I say, and how shall I say it? In a letter dated August 30, 1928 from West China, the Rev. Thomas Torrance wrote to T. F. Torrance: Dear Torn, This is your fifteenth birthday. I'm glad you have made a start in public. Keep on. To begin with, if you can tell a short story or incident and pack into it a message and an appeal, you'll find it easier to begin with and you'll speak to more purpose than by confining yourself to abstract speech. There's a template! The suggestion that I should say something tonight came the day after Elizabeth and I arrived here last month, and it's a great honor to be here. Before leaving London we called the registrar's office to find the nearest airport to Princeton, and we arrived in lax, on a fine sunny afternoon in late January. After a few days with our son and his wife in Westwood, California, we drove across to the Seminary, taking in a short detour to that archetypal Presbyterian festival, Mardi Gras in New Orleans. And so I stand before you tonight, a sheep in sheep's clothing, a simple Southern Californian, which gives me the chance to say a word of personal thanks to a couple of real Californians. We met them again by accident a few months back when we all happened to be visiting Tom Torrance. To their great generosity, I and generations of our Glasgow Peter Marshall scholars are hugely indebted: Tom and Barbara Gillespie. 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.