complete apprehension of divine truth. I shall be amply
rewarded if those who have any sympathy with the men
and the movements I have attempted to portray, whether
Roman Catholics or Protestants, are drawn more closely
together in the bonds of a common faith and fellowship.

My thanks are due and are here respectfully extended
to the Reverend Doctor Herbert B. Workman, Principal
of Westminster College, London, who used his unsurpassed
knowledge of Wycliffe and of Wesley to correct the first
eight chapters; to my colleague at Central Church, the
Reverend David Loinaz, for his constant research in the
subjects discussed; to my friends, the Reverend Doctor
W. L. Watkinson, formerly Editor of The London Quarterly
Review, the Reverend John L. Belford, rector of the Roman
Catholic Church of the Nativity, Brooklyn, and the Rev-
erend Doctor Joseph Dunn Burrell, pastor of the Classon
Avenue Presbyterian Church, in the same borough, for
the loan of valuable volumes and documents; to Professor
Edgar A. Hall, of Adelphi College, and the Reverend
Charles Waugh for their fruitful suggestions and verifi-
cation of quotations; and to the Reverend Oscar L. Joseph
for his scholarly assistance and preparation of the Index.

The reader is asked to remember that the lectures were
given before an audience composed of different religious
denominations, and this circumstance rendered necessary
explanations and details which otherwise might seem
superfluous.

S. PARKES CADMAN.

CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY.
September the first, 1915.

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