The name and the book

If this little humble volume presents a new theme, it is because the "Faith once for all delivered to the saints" can be considered new, in that it has been almost buried under an avalanche of New Thought, Christian Science, Unity, Theosophy, Higher Criticism, and Lower Infidelity, called, "Modernism." Its novelty, if that be conceded, is in its protest against novelties in our serene and peerless religion; and its unqualified insistence that if the Church would return to the principles and practices of the apostolic church, the same results would follow our ministries. It does not claim to traverse a new field, but it does claim that its theme is perhaps the most neglected, and the least understood of any of the great and worthy themes that constitute modern theology.