THE Contents of the present volume are intended to give a permanent record in English of the Universal Christian Conference held at Stockholm last year. A similar volume is being published in German under the editorship of Dr. Adolf Deissmann. The English and German volumes are in close agreement with one another, and the two editors have been in constant and harmonious communication throughout. But certain speeches will be found in the German edition which do not appear in the English, and vice versa; and in various other ways the two books supplement one another. Both volumes were projected at the meeting of the Continuation Committee of the Stockholm Conference on August 31, 1925. It has not been possible to find room for everything which it was originally hoped to include, for all the speeches given in the course of the Conference, or for every single one of the papers read. But the task of exclusion has been made more difficult than is often the case by the high quality of many of the addresses which were perforce rejected to enable the book to be of even moderate size. The editor can only hope that those whose names only appear, without their speeches, will sympathize with his difficulties and forgive him. For similar reasons of space the editor has been unable to include the reports of the five commissions and eleven sub-committees appointed by the International Committee before the Conference proper began; though he has quoted in full the only Recommendation from any Commission brought before the Conference for adoption, that dealing with the Continuation Committee. He trusts however that the book provides a fair and comprehensive record of the Proceedings of the Conference itself, from August 19-30th, 1925.