SOME MODERN DIFFICULTIES:

NINE LECTURES.

Sabine

BY THE REV.

BARING-GOULD, M.A.,

AUTHOR OF THE ORIGIN And development of RELIGIOUS BELIEF,'
'LIVES OF THE SAINTS,' ETC.

Second EDITION.

LONDON:

W. SKEFFINGTON, 163, PICCADILLY.

1875.

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11,822

PREFACE.

SIX of the following lectures were delivered "ad
Clerum" in the Trophy Room of S. Paul's Cathe-
dral, by kind permission of the Dean and Canons,
in the week before Advent, 1874.

They were listened to with attention and interest,
and I was requested to publish them.

Their object is to draw the attention of the Clergy to some of the difficulties which beset minds at the present day in the matter of Christian. belief; and to show that, granting nearly everything established by natural science and Biblical criticism, our Faith in God the Creator, and in Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, need not be shaken.

I desire also to protest with all my heart against the attitude assumed by so many of the Clergy towards science and Biblical criticism. It seems amazing that it should be necessary for one to utter a word of warning on such a subject, but the following extract from the Times' of December 1st, 1874,