Condensation is a difficult art.
There are few things more dangerous and more unsatisfactory than small books on great subjects, abbreviated statements on large systems. Error lurks in summations, and yet here the sweeping effects of God's redemptive revelation to lost men are gathered into the words of one sentence. There is an old legend of a magic tent which could be expanded to shelter an army and contracted to cover a single man. That great gospel which fills the Bible and overflows on the shelves of crowded libraries is here exhibited, without damage to its dynamic effect, in the compass of one saying which the simplest can understand and which the most profound cannot exhaust. His desire is to 'preach the gospel to them that are at Rome also'.