ON MISSIONS AND EVANGELISM, DELIVERED TO THE STUDENTS OF THE SENIOR HALL OF THE BY ANDREW SOMERVILLE, D.D., EX-FOREIGN MISSION SECRETARY. 'GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.' THE BIBLE. EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND CO. 1874. PREFACE. THEN, in May 1868, I resigned the Secretaryship of Foreign Missions, being unable from advanced age and declining strength to discharge the full duties of that important office, the Synod was pleased to appoint me to deliver to the students of the Theological Hall 'a series of Lectures on Missions and Evangelism, not to exceed seven in one session.' The following Lectures are the result of this appointment. The eighteen fully written Lectures, and the three oral Lectures, the outlines of which are given in the Appendix, formed a course which extended to three sessions, the period during which the students attend the Senior Hall. I now submit them to the church, in the hope and with the prayer that they may, by the divine blessing, help to strengthen the missionary spirit which happily exists both among ministers and members, and especially that they may lead those young men who are aspiring to the office of the holy 277237 |
