The twelve sermons and addresses in this book were delivered during the ministry of the Rev. William MacLean in the Free Presbyterian congregation of Gisborne, New Zealand. They show his qualities as a faithful preacher who declared all the counsel of God to different groups of hearers, and taught them the need to distinguish truth from error in doctrine and practice.

The Rev. William MacLean (1907-1985) was a minister of the gospel who served congregations of the Free Presbyterian Church in Scotland, New Zealand and Australia over a period of thirty-seven years. After ordination as a minister in 1948, Mr MacLean's first charge was in Ness on the Isle of Lewis. He accepted a call to Gisborne on the North Island of New Zealand in 1962 and remained there until 1973, before serving a congregation in Australia and then returning to Ness in 1976 for the final part of his ministry.