A DISCOURSe delivereD IN ARGYLE CHAPEL, BATH, ON OCTOBER 8, 1889, ON OCCASION OF THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS OPENING. THE OLD EVANGELICALISM AND THE NEW. BY R. W. DALE, LL.D., London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXXIX. WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS: Its Doctrine Third NINE LECTURES ON PREACHING. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE JEWISH TEMPLE AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. A Series of Discourses on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Seventh Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. WEEK-DAY SERMONS. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Fifth Edition. 8vo, 5s. Crown THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL, AND OTHER SERMONS. Second Thousand. Crown 8vo, 6s. "And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they did take their food with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were being saved."-ACTS ii. 46-47. HESE words give us the impression that THE the Christian Church was distinguished for some time after the day of Pentecost by great buoyancy of spirit; and that this buoyancy of spirit was one element of its attractiveness and charm. Only a very few weeks before, the friends of Christ were in despair. All seemed lost. A great darkness had fallen upon them. At His resurrection the dawn came. But I suppose that at first they were unable to receive all the blessedness of it. Christ was restored to them; but His relations to them were not just the same that they had been before. He ap |