PREFACE 



THROUGH the kind provision of a 

 Director of the Union Theological 

 Seminary, five leading divines, representing 

 five great evangelical churches, lectured 

 in the Union Theological Seminary, during 

 the winter of 1896, on the several topics 

 of Church Unity assigned them. These 

 lectures were so able, so timely, and so 

 valuable, that it was deemed wise to publish 

 them. They are printed just as delivered, 

 with the exception of slight corrections 

 and additions. The order was changed in 

 a single instance, that the themes might be 

 printed in a better chronological series. 

 The lecturers were entirely free to express 

 their own opinions upon the topics assigned 

 them. Each author is exclusively respon- 





