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Whatever may be the defects of this volume, it has not been undertaken without a deep sense of the greatness of its subject, nor yet without earnest and protracted study. The writer may claim to have made himself acquainted with all the principal treatises on the Holy Spirit, both ancient and modern; and he puts forth his own contribution to the subject in the hope that there may be found in it some evidence of independent thought and work.

Twelve years ago the writer was appointed by Bishop Harris, a most distinguished member of a great Episcopate, to deliver the second series of Baldwin Lectures, the first having been given by the beloved Dr. Cleveland Coxe, Bishop of Western New York. It is with a deep sense of the high honor again conferred upon him that he has undertaken this work entrusted to him by the revered and accomplished successor of Bishop Harris, the Right Reverend Dr. Davies.