Excerpt from The Samaritans: Their Testimony to the Religion of Israel, Being the Alexander Robertson Lectures, Delivered, Before the University of Glasgow in 1916
The present volume contains the substance-of a course of lectures delivered in the spring of 1916, before the University of Glasgow, on the Alexander Robertson Foundation. There has been no attempt to retain the lecture form, as much more was required for an adequate discussion of the subject than could be compressed into the compass of six lectures. Besides there were many sides of the questions at issue, which did not lend themselves to treatment in the form of an address. The writer would take the opportunity to thank anew the Divinity Faculty for suggesting to the Senate of Glasgow University his nomination to the above lectureship, and the University Court for his appointment to it. Under the conditions of the lectureship the present work ought to have been published in the spring of the year following; but on economic and other grounds connected with the War, the University kindly permitted delay in the hope that matters would improve. So far, however, from things improving by the signing of the armistice and the practical ending of the War, they have become worse. As the prospect of any improvement in the conditions of book-publication appeared to be rather remote, and for the writer time was passing, it seemed better to risk the disadvantage of issuing a book on a Biblical subject, at a time like the present, when the English-speaking public are obsessed by the Great War and its consequences, than wait any longer.
At the best, even in normal circumstances, a book like the present interests only a very limited public. Not many even among Biblical students, know much about the Samaritans or the relation in which their rites and ceremonies stand to those of the Jews; and of these, very few manifest any wish to increase their knowledge.
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