The author of the following volume is one )l the most eminent Of the younger ministers Of the Free Church Of Scotland. Educated in his native land, he spent some time in Germany, prosecuting there such studies as he judged to be best fitted to prepare him for his life-work in the ministry of the gospel. He began his pastoral labors in Kirkcaldy, Fife shire, and while there attracted wide attention by his eloquence as a preacher and his excellence as an expositor of the Word or God. Two or three years ago he was called to Free St. Matthew's Church, Glasgow, where by all he is esteemed very highly in love for his work's sake. He pccupies there a place Of commanding in?uence, and by his labors among young people and his active sympathy with evangelistic work, he is prov ing himself eminently useful.