FOREWORD TO VOLUME XII I t was the original plan of the Two Laymen who gave the money for the work that there should be twelve volumes of “T he F undamentals .” The present volume, therefore, com pletes the plan as originally mapped out. Such a wide desire has been manifested that this testimony be continued in some way after the issue of the present volume that the Two Laymen, yielding to these pleas, have decided upon a plan for the continuance of the testimony, which they themselves have stated on the preceding pages of the present book. We have been greatly cheered by the letters that have poured in upon us from ministers, missionaries, editors, Sun day School Superintendents and others since the publication of Volume XI. Of course, there has been some criticism, but in very few instances has this criticism been of an unkindly character. The present volume will be sent to about one hundred thousand English-speaking Protestant pastors, evangelists, mis sionaries, theological professors, theological students, Y. M. C. A. secretaries, Y. W. C. A. secretaries, Sunday School super intendents, religious editors and lay workers throughout the earth. May we ask the prayers of every reader that it may be as abundantly blessed as its predecessors have been unto the strengthening of the faith of Christians, unto the defence of the truth against the various forms of error' so prevalent at the present day, and, above all, in stirring up Christians everywhere to more active effort and more earnest prayer for the conversion of a great number of the unsaved. By a vote of the Committee having the publication in charge, it was decided that this closing volume should be 7
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