Excerpt from Christian Union Necessary for Religious Progress and Defense The following Address was largely prepared away from my library, during a brief summering at Schwalbach, Germany. It was subjected to the conditions of the main public sessions of the Evangelical Alliance, and needed, therefore, to be delivered in the German language, with much matter, originally designed for delivery, omitted. The whole Address has in this new shape undergone careful revision important parts have been added to the text, and such full foot-tes and references have been given as one has facility and the heart to do when he is within arm's length of his own books. The accounts of the Young Men's Christian Associations and of the Free Religion Conference have been given here in much fuller form than when originally prepared for use at Basle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.