The writer believes that the three-fold feature of this book is not arbitrarily introduced. He began its study with no thought whatever of reducing the book to any numerical basis. The divisions were, in every case, the result of careful investigation. He commits this volume to the reading public in the hope of making the epistle to the Ephesians as attractive to students as it has seemed instructive and inspiring to recent auditors

I have often spoken of "the Gospel in Genesis" - it is there. "The Gospel according to Leviticus" is a phrase now commonly employed by the best students of the Book. But the Gospel is in Exodus also - as surely as it is in John. To deny that there is a definite and Divinely appointed relation between these Old Testament types and symbols and the New Testament truths is to destroy the unity of the ages, and divorce to-day from yesterday. There are people who object to our going back to these ancient types, for the well-sounding reason that the symbol is passed away, and the substance is now...

For forty-four consecutive years, I have ministered from one pulpit - the First Baptist of Minneapolis. In that entire time, it has been my privilege to face, Sabbath after Sabbath, an audience in which youth predominates. Recently, at an evening service of about eight hundred, a count showed between two-thirds and three-fourths to be under thirty years of age. In addition to this, the Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School and the Northwestern Evangelical Seminary over which I preside as President (numbering 1045 in attendance) are, with some exceptions in the night school,...