Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Revelation of John
HE present volume owes its origin to an accident. The Hartley Lecture for 1919 should have been delivered by the Rev. A. T. Guttery. In consequence of his acceptance of an important Government mission to America, and the burden imposed by the Presidency of the National Free Church Council, he felt that it would be better to postpone his lecture. Accordingly I was invited to take his place and Dr. Guttery is to deliver the lecture in 1920. This request was made to me late in October, 1918. I was very heavily overburdened at the time, but felt it my duty to accept the call of my Church, especially since Hartley College had for some time been closed. Little could be done at the book before Christmas, but it seemed possible to complete it by the end of March. Illness and the unexpected reopening of Hartley College prevented this; all the more that University work had continuedwithout interruption, and that the Commentary on the Bible I had so long been editing was not finally dismissed till May. The book could not be completed till the end of July, since the new duties involved in the Editorship of the Holbom Review cut deeply into my time.
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