Christ Our Life: Or, Expository Discourses on the Gospel by John (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Christ Our Life: Or, Expository Discourses on the Gospel by John

I had made considerable progress in a course of Sabbath fore noon Lectures on the Gospel by John, when an application was very unexpectedly made to me by kind friends, for Whose good opinion I feel heartily grateful, that I should allow the Discourses to be taken down by a short-hand writer, and that I should myself prepare the reporter's mss. For the press. The friends who made this application were fully aware that it is my prac tice to preach from bare outlines, and that these Discourses had not been written previous to being delivered. My reply to this request, that the proposal would be found impracticable, did not prevent the experiment. The examination of a. Considerable number of ms. Reports, however, confirmed my anticipations, and satisfied us that it would be a far easier task to write out with my own hand what I had preached, than to remodel, correct, and prepare for the printers, the papers with which I had been furnished.

A second application being made to me, I consented to write out the Discourses from the beginning of the Gospel so that if, on publication, the present Volume, which comprehends only the First Three Chapters, proved acceptable and useful, the series might be continued in successive volumes.

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