First Sentence

"In inviting all of you to consider with me to-night, and in the following five lectures, some of those great World Problems which face us to-day, I am well aware that I am essaying a task very, very difficult ; that I have to deal with matters on which opinions vary very, very much ; but I hope that by thinking over these together, by your also helping me in my thought as I hope to help you to some extent, we may, on these six Sunday evenings on which we are to meet face to face, be enabled to win some light at least on these problems, the solution of which is so essential for human welfare ; problems that are pressing on every country to-day ; problems that are realised as the more serious the more deeply you think upon them, the more fully you try to estimate the many, many aspects which each of them presents and the vital questions for the human race which we are trying to some extent to solve."