ad to know that, by their publication in the
United States and Great Britain, the pleasure and profit which we have
all derived from their delivery will be enjoyed by a wider circle._

TIMOTHY DWIGHT,
_President_.

GEORGE E. DAY,
_Professor of Hebrew_.

SAMUEL HARRIS,
_Professor of Systematic Theology_.

GEORGE P. FISHER,
_Professor of Ecclesiastical History_.

LEWIS O. BRASTOW,
_Professor of Practical Theology_.

GEORGE B. STEVENS,
_Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation_.

FRANK C. PORTER,
_Instructor in Biblical Theology_.

PREFACE

These nine Lectures on Preaching were delivered, on the Lyman Beecher
Foundation, to the divinity students of Yale University in the spring
of this year. With the kind concurrence of the Senate of Yale, five of
them were redelivered, on the Merrick Foundation, to the students of
Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio.

In the Appendix an Ordination Address is reproduced, which I wrote
when I had been only four or five years in the ministry, and which I
have been requested to reprint. My friend, the Rev. Dr. Walker, who
was present when it was delivered, having published it in _The Family
Treasury_, another friend, noticing it there, had it printed as a
pamphlet at his own expense and distributed to all the ministers of
the Church to which he and I belong. It was a very characteristic act;
and I have ventured, as a memorial of it, to dedicate this volume to
him. I do so, however, not for this reason only, but also because
there has been no one in this generation who has done more than he has
done, by the example of his own impressive ministry and by his
generous encouragement of younger ministers, to promote the interests
of preaching in his native land.

My thanks are due to the Rev. Charles Shaw, who on this as on former
occasions has kindly assisted me in correcting the press.

GLASGOW, _October 1st, 1891_.

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

PAGE

INTRODUCTORY 1

LECTURE II.

THE PREACHER AS A MAN OF GOD 29

LECTURE III.

THE PREACHER AS A PATRIOT 59

LECTURE IV.

THE PREACHER AS A MAN OF THE WORD 91

LECTURE V.

THE PREACHER AS A FALSE