HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSster Row. THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, POSSIBle, Credible, and HisTORICAL. By the Rev. Preb. Row, M.A. 125. THE GOSPELS IN THE SECOND CENTURY. An Examination of the critical part fo 10s. 6d. IS. 6d. Is. 6d. Course of six FRENCH LECTURES, delivered at the Paris Exhibition, 1878. 13, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C. Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbur❤. PREFACE. I HAVE been requested by the Committee of the Christian Evidence Society not to allow this, the fifth volume of Lectures on Christian Evidence which have appeared under their auspices, to go forth without a few words of preface from their Chairman. I bow to their request, though feeling most unfeignedly my incompetence for assuming such a position. The volumes which have preceded the present series have had a wide circulation, and met with much acceptance; and it is hoped they have not been without profit to many. They were, like the present, the offering of eminent men, devoted to a holy cause: aware of the difficulties of the time, and willing to give the help of their abilities and knowledge towards their removal. They were conceived, not in the too often bitter spirit of |