How to study the Bible, the Second Coming and other expositions

Preface

This work was formerly issued as ' ' Friday Night Papers. ' '

A second edition having been called for, the name has been changed to that of the leading article, " How To Study The Bible. ' ' Some two hundred pages have been added and the order of contents considerably changed. The original title was due to a series of letters written and sent to the Friday Evening Meetings of the Church during the summer vacation. The last four articles are simply notes of sermons preached in the First Church pulpit. The one on the " Second Coming " was delivered' as an address before the Baptist Ministers' Conference. ' ' The Imminent Coming ' ' appeared in the Examiner. The other contents are made up of Bible lessons and expositions given from time to time in the course of a rather full ministry.

No attempt has been made at sequence. The papers are just a handful gathered at random and flung like leaves — to be blown about by the winds of God's providence — and with the earnest prayer that, in some measure like the leaves of the Tree of Iyife, they may be for healing and blessing to the souls of men.

I. M. H.

New York.