CONTENTS.

ON THE ORIGIN OF CIVILISATION.

By HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.

LABOUR, REST, AND RECREATION.

By the Rev. JOHN CUMMING, D.D

POPULAR FALLACIES.

By the Rev. WILLIAM LANDELS, Birmingham,

THE GLORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

By the Rev. HUGH STOWELL, M.A., Manchester.

PHILOSOPHY OF THE ATONEMENT.

By the Rev. THOMAS ARCHER, D.D., Oxendon Street Chapel

MAN AND HIS MASTERS.

By JOHN B. GOUGH, Esq.

THE INTELLIGENT STUDY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.

By the Rev. HENRY ALFORD, B.D., Editor of a New Edition of the

Greek Testament, with English Notes.

CONSTANTINOPLE AND GREEK CHRISTIANITY.

By the Rev. RICHARD BURGESS, B.D., Rector of Upper Chelsea, and

Prebendary of St. Paul's

AGENTS IN THE REVIVAL OF THE LAST CENTURY.

By the Rev. LUKE H. WISEMAN.

GOD'S HEROES AND THE WORLD'S HEROES.

By the Rev. J. H. GURNEY, M.A., Rector of St. Mary's, Marylebone.

THE DIGNITY OF LABOUR.

By the Rev. NEWMAN HALL, B.A., Surrey Chapel.

BAGGED SCHOOLS.

By the Rev. THOMAS GUTHRIE, D.D., Edinburgh.

OPPOSITION TO GREAT INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.

By the Rev. SAMUEL MARTIN, Westminster Chapel.

PREFATORY NOTE.

THE Committee of the YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION gratefully avail themselves of the privilege of publishing the following Lecture, which his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin intended to deliver in London as the Introductory Lecture of the present Course. He was prevented carrving out his intention by indisposition, and has most kindly placed the Lecture at the disposal of the Committee, as an expression of His Grace's interest in the aims and efforts of the Association.

December, 1854.