Produced by Benjamin Klein
OLIPHANT ANDERSON & FERRIER
1907
I. The Story of the Case
II. Explanation of the Method
III. The Plan at Work
IV. Results in the Pulpit
V. Expository Outlines
The success of the author's book, Synthetic Bible Studies, has beensuch that it is a pleasure to us to introduce this little book toBritish Bible students.
The author of this book requires no introduction to the Bible-lovingpeople of our time. A time it is of unusual quickening in the studyof God's Word along spiritual and evangelical lines, toward which, asthe editor of a leading newspaper has said, no one man has contributedmore than Rev. James M. Gray, D.D.
"He knows what is in the Book," says the Christian Endeavour World,"and when he sounds the clear, strong notes of God's love, of victoryover sin, of the believer's assurance, it is no wonder that thousandsof young people wax as enthusiastic over the Bible as others do overathletics or art."
The interdenominational Bible classes which he has carried on, and towhich his work directly and indirectly has given rise, are thelargest and in other respects the most remarkable known. His work hasrevolutionised the method of teaching in some Sunday schools; it hasput life into dead prayer-meetings; in not a few instances it hasmaterially helped to solve the problem of the second service on theLord's day; it has been a boon to many pastors in the labours ofstudy and pulpit, whose gratitude is outspoken; it has contributed tothe efficiency of foreign missionary workers, whose testimony hascome from the uttermost parts of the earth; and it has reactedbeneficially on the instruction given in the English Bible in some ofour home academies, smaller colleges and seminaries. The secret ofthese results is given in this book.
Nor is it as a Bible teacher only, but also as a Bible preacher, thatDr. Gray holds a distinguished place in the current history of theChurch. His expository sermons leave an impress not to be effaced.Presbyteries and ministerial associations are on record that theyhave stirred communities to their depths. Even secular editors,commonly unmoved by ordinary types of evangelism, have written: "Hereis something new for the people, something fresh and suggestive forevery active mind, which the business interests of the city cannotafford to neglect." The testimony of one pastor given at a meeting ofthe presbytery is practically that of scores of others throughout thecountry. He had attended a series of popular meetings conducted byDr. Gray, and said: "I learned more during the few days I listened toDr. Gray about the true character of preaching than I had learned inall my seminary course