PREFACE
This volume contains a series of five lectures which I delivered, as Hastie Lecturer, in the University of Glasgow, in February of the present year. The object of the Hastie Lectureship is to encourage the study of theology among the ministers of the Church of Scotland. I had several reasons for choosing as my special subject of study the movements of Religious Thought in Holland during the last century.
As minister for six years of the English churches of Middelburg and Flushing—churches of much historical interest, which have long been incorporated into the Dutch Reformed Church—I had been led to give a good deal of time to the study of the subject. While the questions and problems that Dutch theologians have been dealing with during the period covered by my survey are, of course, fundamentally the same as those that
