PUBLIC LIT 572518 A S "THERE is one question which combines with the interest of speculation and curiosity an interest incomparably greater, nearer, more affecting, more solemn. It is the simple question-'WHAT SHALL WE BE?' How soon it is spoken! but who shall reply? Think how profoundly this question, this mystery, concerns us--and, in comparison with this, what are to us all questions of all sciences? What to us all researches into the constitution and laws of material nature? What-all investigations into the history of past ages? What to us-the future career of events in the progress of states and empires? What to us-what shall become of this globe itself, or all the mundane system? What WE shall be, we ourselves, is the matter of surpassing interest." JOHN FOSTER. 999 X 18 (Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.) X. The Very Rev. E. H. PLUMPTRE, D.D. XI. Rev. HENRY ALLON, D.D. XII. Rev. JAMES H. RIGG, D.D. 3833 (The late W. B. RANDS, Author of "Lilliput Levee," etc.) XX. "PREFATORY AND PERSONAL OPENING TO "MERCY AND JUDGMENT." Archdeacon PREFATORY NOTE BY THE EDITOR.-JAMES HOGG. |