Nine Lectures on Preaching

My first duty is to express to
the Theological Faculty and to the President and
Fellows of this University my sense of the honour they
have done me in nominating and appointing me to
this lectureship. The illustrious services which Yale
has rendered to the intellectual activity and culture
of America, and the eminent learning of the long
succession of its graduates and professors, might have
made me shrink from accepting the distinction ; but
to have refused it would have been an ungracious
return to your courtesy and kindness.

When I received the invitation to deliver this course
of lectures, you had recently completed the centenary
of your national independence. Perhaps that celebra-
tion may have made you more vividly conscious than
ever that, although the political ties which once united
the States of this great Republic to the ancient mon-
archy of England are severed, Americans and Eng-
lishmen still belong to the same race. It may have
reminded you that the most heroic and glorious
periods in the political history of the English people,
the noblest names in our literature, the most sacred
traditions of our Churches, are yours as well as ours.
It may have renewed and deepened your generous
affection for us. Gentlemen, I believe that every
patriotic American and every patriotic Englishman,
every wise and thoughtful Christian man on the other
side of the Atlantic as well as on this, desires to draw
closer and to strengthen those ties between the in-
tellectual and religious life of the two countries, which
the disruption of former political relations could not
dissolve ; and it is partly because I share this desire
that I am here to-day.

CONTENTS.



LECTURE I.

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INTRODUCTORY : PERILS OF YOUNG PREACHERS I



LECTURE II.

THE INTELLECT IN RELATION TO PREACHING 27

LECTURE III.

READING 63

LECTURE IV.
READING (CONCLUDED) 90

LECTURE V.

THE PREPARATION OF SERMONS ... I l6

LECTURE VI.

EXTEMPORANEOUS PREACHING AND STYLE [51



CONTENTS.



LECTURE VII.

EVANGELISTIC PREACHING 1 82

LECTURE VIII.

PASTORAL PREACHING 221

LECTURE IX.

THE CONDUCT OF PUBLIC WORSHIP: CONCLUSION ... 263



LECTURE I.

INTRODUCTORY : PERILS OF YOUNG PREACHERS.