INTRODUCTION
THE addresses in this book have been delivered to large audiences of business and professional men in cities and large towns in Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, England, Scotland, and Ire land. Many who have been helped by them have urged me to put them into book form in order that they may be preserved for reference, and that they may be circu1ated among friends, hence this volume. In Melbourne the Town Hall was packed with 2500 men of all classes at the noon hour each day to listen to these addresses. In Sydney I am told that in the crowd that thronged the Centenary Hall there were many prominent busi ness men and members of both Houses of the Legislature, who gave up their mid-day meal each day to attend. In Great Britain and Ire Jand men very prominent in commercial and professional life, a large number of University men, both professors and students, have spoken to me of the help that has come to them from these addresses, not a few having been shaken in their faith by the critical discussions of the present day. Many agnostics, skeptics, Uni tarians, and destructive critics have testified publicly to having been led by these lectures to Yb
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