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BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR


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  The Mendenhall Lectures, First Series
  Delivered at DePauw University


  THE BIBLE AND LIFE


  BY EDWIN HOLT HUGHES
  Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church


  THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN
  NEW YORK      CINCINNATI




  Copyright, 1915, by
  EDWIN HOLT HUGHES

  First Edition printed February, 1915
  Reprinted June, 1915




TO CHARLES RAISBECK MAGEE




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                           PAGE

        INTRODUCTION                   9

        FOREWORD                      11

        BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE             13

        THE HUMAN OUTLINE             19

     I. THE BIBLE AND LIFE            21

    II. THE BIBLE AND MAN             49

   III. THE BIBLE AND HOME            76

    IV. THE BIBLE AND EDUCATION      102

     V. THE BIBLE AND WORK           125

    VI. THE BIBLE AND WEALTH         151

   VII. THE BIBLE AND SORROW         185

  VIII. THE BIBLE AND PRACTICE       213




INTRODUCTION


By the courteous invitation of the President, Faculty, and Trustees of
DePauw University, the writer had the privilege of delivering the first
series of lectures under the foundation as endowed by his friend, the Rev.
Marmaduke H. Mendenhall. The following comments are the only introductory
words that need be given.

The terms of the lectures were kept strictly within the radius of real
life. The author does not claim to be a biblical scholar in any technical
sense. Nor did he deem that the primary need of the students whom he
addressed would be met by a discussion of theories of inspiration or of
dates and authorships. College students have a passion for reality, and
the most convincing apologetic for them is the argument from actual
living.

Under the instruction of the founder the lectures are to be placed in
permanent form for the students of the University and for the wider
public. The lecturer having been rewarded by the close attention of
hundreds of youthful hearers, the writer will have a still greater reward
if those who heard the words as spoken in Meharry Hall are joined by the
larger company who will listen for the voice of the Spirit in these pages.

EDWIN HOLT HUGHES.




THE MENDENHALL LECTURES

FOREWORD


The late Reverend Marmaduke H. Mendenhall, D.D., of the North Indiana
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, donated to DePauw University
the sum of ten thousand dollars, the purpose and conditions of which gift
are set forth in his bequest as follows:

The object of this gift is "to found a perpetual lectureship on the
evidences of the Divine Origin of Christianity, to be known as the
Mendenhall Foundation. The income from this fund shall be used for the
support of an Annual Lectureship, the design of which shall be the
exhibition of the proofs, from all sources, of the Divine Origin,
Inspiration, and Authority of the Holy Scriptures. The course of lectures
shall be delivered annually before the University and the public without
any charge for admission.

"The lecturers shall be chosen by an electing body consisting of the
President of the University, the five senior members of the Faculty of the
College of Liberal Arts, and the President of the Board of Trustees,
subject to the approval of the Board of Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. The lecturers must be persons of high and wide repute,
of broad and varied scholarship, who firmly adhere to the evangelical
system of Christian faith. The selection of lecturers may be made from the
world of Christian scholarship without regard to denominational divisions.
Each course of lectures is to be published in book form by an eminent
publishing house and sold at cost to the Faculty and students of the
University."

  GEORGE R. GROSE,
    _President of DePauw University_.




BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


Inasmuch as future lecturers on the Mendenhall Foundation may not have had
the privilege of personal acquaintance with the founder, it is doubtless
good that this first volume may record the outlines of his life and
character. Marmaduke H. Mendenhall was born at Guilford, North Carolina,
May 13, 1836. He died at Union City, Indiana, October 9, 1905. He was the
son of Himelius and Priscilla Mendenhall, who, when their son was about
one year old, came northward and settled near Peru, Indiana. Doctor
Mendenhall did not suggest in manner or bearing that he was Southern born.
