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For the selections from Dr. Elmslie's sermons which are contained in
this volume I am entirely responsible. These sermons were seldom fully
written out, and some of them required considerable amplification. In
every case the thought of the writer has been rigidly preserved, and the
wording has been left, as far as possible, untouched. In cases where I
have had the benefit of short-hand reports I have, with the slightest
alteration, printed the sermons as they were delivered. Two "Sunday
Readings" are reprinted from _Good Words_, and an article on Genesis
from the _Contemporary Review_.