A Series of Lectures, DELIVERED IN THE NEW HALL OF SCIENCE, old stREET PREFACE. THE following Lectures were delivered in the same Hall where the lectures contained in the volume entitled "Popular Objections to Revealed Truth" were delivered last year. They are intended similarly to combat some of the objections, or to meet some of the difficulties that are raised at the present day in reference to Christianity, dealing more particularly with some of the points insisted upon by the "Secularists." The Committee trust that these "Strivings for the Faith" may prove useful both to many who may themselves be feeling the force of the objections referred to, and to many who may be seeking for further confirmation of that faith which already they hold. Whilst these lectures were delivered at the request and under the auspices of the Christian Evidence Society, the Committee wish it to be understood that each author is responsible for the statements and arguments of his own lecture; no revision of the lectures having been in any way made by the Committee. 2, DUKE STREET, ADELPHI, LONDON, W.C. August, 1874. CONTENTS. III. The sense of sin, the basis of the idea of sacrifice, still remains, and has become intensified. IV. Although sacrifices have ceased, sacrificial terms are associated with the remarkable rite of the Lord's Supper, which professes to commemorate the death V. Sketch of the Life of Christ, and of the Institution of VI. The universal adoption of this rite; the simplicity VII. The historical fact of the Resurrection alone an ade- |