FEW words are needed to introduce this book. The five lectures, entitled “The Immediate Future”, were delivered in the large Queen’s Hall, London, on June 11, 18, 25, and July 2, 9, to audiences which packed every part of the building, from which hundreds were turned away.Of the public interest in the subject no doubt was possible; and the lectures reached another great audience by their weekly appearance in The Christian Commonwealth, to which I tender my hearty thanks for the admirable reports herein reproduced.