Produced by Colin Bell, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * THE PREACHER AND HIS MODELS THE PREACHER AND HIS MODELS _THE YALE LECTURES ON PREACHING, 1891_ BY THE REV. JAMES STALKER, D.D. AUTHOR OF "IMAGO CHRISTI," "THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST," "THE LIFE OF ST. PAUL," ETC. _Quis facit ut quid oportet et quemadmodum oportet dicatur nisi in Cujus manu sunt nos et nostri sermones?_ ST. AUGUSTINE, _De Doctrina Christiana, iv. 15_ HODDER & STOUGHTON LONDON : : MCMXIX COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY A.C. ARMSTRONG & SON. TO THE Rev. Alexander Whyte, D.D. DIVINITY SCHOOL OF YALE UNIVERSITY, } NEW HAVEN, CONN., APRIL 25, 1891. } REV. JAMES STALKER, D.D., GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. REV. AND DEAR SIR: _At the close of your instructive and stimulating lectures in the Lyman Beecher Course before the members of this Theological School, we desire to express to you the satisfaction with which they have been listened to, and we are glad 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.