Excerpt from From Egyptian Rubbish-Heaps: Five Popular Lectures on the New Testament, With a Sermon, Delivered at Northfield, Massachusetts, in August, 1914ON July 31, 1914, the ill-fated Lusitania landed at New York after what proved her last peace voyage. A week later two Of her passengers proceeded to the Conference at Northfield, where some two thousand Christian people were gathered in sight oi the grave of D. L. Moody. It was very hard for us all, doubly hard for Britons, to detach our thoughts even partially from the horrors that were already beginning - horrors which will long make it im possible to name even the best of Germans without a Sharp stab of pain. But we were studying the only Book that can ever bring peace and comfort to men in their direst need, and there is no fear that those who know will think we were fiddling while Rome burned.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.