Prefatory Note.

This Lecture, prepared amid pressure of other work, is published simply because a considerable number of Laymen, of varied forms of belief, kindly desired such publication.

I have been much indebted, as will be observed, for reference, to the original work of other men.

My remarks upon the Bill of 1906 are, of course, liable to considerable revision as time goes on. The cables that reach us here are not very luminous.

Should there be any surplus resulting from the sale of this pamphlet, it will be handed to the Standing Committee for the Chaplaincy to the Public Institutions.