THE EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. LECTURE I. THE EVIDENCES OF TO-DAY. My choice of a subject has been determined by several considerations. In the first place, I am desirous of presenting to you young men, whom it is my privilege to address, some aspects of the great field of Christian Evidences likely to be particularly prominent during the generation in which you are called to labor, and therefore calculated to be of especial value in your practical work. Then, it is my wish to leave untouched those topics that have been already so ably and successfully treated by my predecessors in this Lectureship. Finally, looking at the subject from the scientific point of view, I am convinced that this is an opportune time for the discussion of a most important department of apologetics, which hitherto, though not entirely neglected, has received, for the most part, scant recognition. For these reasons I have selected as our thene The Evidence of Christian Experience. I pray, that in our discussion of it we may have the aid of him with whom that experience brings us into personal in |