Excerpt from The Social Influence of Christianity: With Special Reference to Contemporary Problems

This volume consists of eight lectures delivered before the Newton Theological Institution, in May, 1887, at the invita tion of the president and faculty, and through the liberality of the Hon. J. W. Merrill. The lectures are now published at the request of the president, faculty, and students, and consti tute the second published volume of Newton Lectures, the first being The Hebrew Feasts, by Professor William Henry Green, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton Theological Seminary.

The lecturer was permitted to supplement his general prep aration as a teacher of political economy and sociology during the past ten years, by six months of travel and observation in the principal countries of central and southern Europe with these lectures constantly in View, and by six months of spe cial reading in the literature collected before and during his journey.

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