THE SHORT COURSE SERIES

Edited by Rev. John Adams, B.D.


The Sevenfold I AM

Some Aspects of the Spiritual Life

By the Rev. Thomas Marjorbanks, B.D.

General Preface

 

The title of the present series is a sufficient indication of its purpose. Few preachers, or congregations, will face the long courses of expository lectures which characterised the preaching of the past, but there is a growing conviction on the part of some that an occasional short course, of six or eight connected studies on one definite theme, is a necessity of their mental and ministerial life. It is at this point the projected series would strike in. It would suggest to those who are mapping out a scheme of work for the future a variety of subjects which might possibly be utilised in this way.

The appeal, however, will not be restricted to ministers or preachers. The various volumes will meet the needs of laymen and Sabbath-school teachers who are interested in a scholarly but also practical exposition of Bible history and doctrine. In the hands of office-bearers and mission-workers the "Short Course Series" may easily become one of the most convenient and valuable of Bible helps.

It need scarcely be added that while an effort has been made to secure, as far as possible, a general uniformity in the scope and character of the series, the final responsibility for the special interpretations and opinions introduced into the separate volumes, rests entirely with the individual contributors.

A detailed list of the authors and their subjects will be found at the close of each volume.

 
 

"Not as one blind and deaf to our beseeching.

     Neither forgetful that we are but dust,

Not as from heavens too high for our up-reaching,

     Coldly sublime, intolerably just:

 

‘‘Nay, but Thou knewest us, Lord Christ, Thou knowest,

     Well Thou rememberest our feeble frame;

Thou canst conceive our highest and our lowest,

     Pulses of nobleness and aches of shame  .  .  .

 

"Yea, thro' life, death, thro’ sorrow and thro' sinning,

     He shall suffice me, for He hath sufficed:

Christ is the end, for Christ was the beginning,

     Christ the beginning, for the end is Christ"

F. W. H. Myers, Saint Paul.