THE BAIRD LECTURE FOR 1913 BY WILLIAM MALCOLM MACGREGOR, D.D. ST. ANDREW'S UNITED FREE CHURCH, EDINBURGH HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO 5--21-58-L.5 Rel PREFATORY NOTE. HAD the fashion of dedications still prevailed, I should have liked to associate this book with the name of the Baird Trustees, by whose most generous courtesy a new precedent was created, and one from outside the borders of the Church of Scotland was for the first time invited to deliver lectures on this distinguished foundation. That act was much more than a personal compliment, it was a token of goodwill to my Church, and as such it was applauded in many quarters without regard to the individual selected. For this reason, I might have been pardoned if I had dedicated the book-unworthy as it is of such promotion to that Church of Scotland which is to be, in which the ideals and the virtues of long surdered Churches shall, in God's mercy, finally be brought together. That Church has long lived in the hearts of many as an object of faith and hope; and, in spite of outburstings of V (RECAP) 5849 |