For some time past the Local Examinations and Lectures Syndicate havearranged a Summer Meeting in Cambridge every other year in connexionwith the Local Lectures. The scheme of study has always included anumber of theological lectures, and at the last two meetings an attempthas been made to deal with some of the religious and moral problemssuggested by the War. In 1916 a course of lectures was delivered, andafterwards published by the University Press, on The Elements of Painand Conflict in Human Life. In 1918 the Syndicate decided to arrange acourse on Unity. It was at first suggested that the lectures should beconfined to the subject of Christian Reunion, but it was finallyarranged to deal not only with Unity between Christian Denominations,but with Unity between Classes, Unity in the Empire, and Unity betweenNations.
Many of those who attended expressed a strong wish that the lecturesshould be published, and the Lecturers and the Syndicate have cordiallyagreed to their request. The central idea of the course is undeniablyvital at the present time, and the book is now issued in the hope thatit may be of some help in the period of "reconstruction."
D. H. S. Cranage,
Secretary of the Cambridge University
Local Lectures.
November 1918.