THE PROVIDENTIAL ORDER

OF THE WORLD

The Gifford Lectures

DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY

OF GLASGOW IN 1897

FIRST SERIES

THE

PROVIDENTIAL ORDER

OF THE WORLD

BY

ALEXANDER BALMAIN BRUCE, D.D.

PROFESSOR OF APOLOGETICS AND NEW TESTAMENT EXEGESIS
IN THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE, GLASGOW

LONDON

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

27 PATERNOSTER ROW

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE PARABOLIC TEACHING OF CHRIST.
Seventh Edition. 8vo, cloth. I2S.

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PREFATORY NOTE

THESE Lectures appear here substantially as they were delivered in the Bute Hall of Glasgow University, on the Sunday Afternoons of January, February, and March 1897, with the exception that some passages were omitted to keep each Lecture within the usual time-limit. Lecture VIII. being broken up into two parts, occupied two Sundays, and hence Lecture IX. on Providence in the Individual Life had to be omitted.

A. B. BRUCE.