Mom: of the material in these lectures was gath ered during a service of fifteen years in teaching Homiletics in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and in the writing of a History of Preaching. Nearly all of the first four lectures and a great deal of the fifth appeared in a series of articles in the Review and Expositor (louis ville, Ky.) during the year 1908. Thanks are due and hereby rendered to the managers of that mag azine for their kind permission to use the material in this form.