A Treatise On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons Vol.1

A Treatise On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

PREFACE.

THIS work is designed, on the one hand io be a text-
book fcr classes, and on the other to be read by snch
ministers, younger or older, as may wish to stndy the sub-
jects discussed.

As a teacher of Homiletios for ten years, the author had
felt the need of a more complete text-book, since a course
made up from parts of several different works would still
omit certain important subjects, and furnish but a meagre
treatment of others, leaving the class to a great extent
dependent entirely upcm the lectures. The desire dius
arose to pr^Mire, whenever possible, a work which should
be full in its range of topics, and should also attempt to
combine the thorough discussion of principles with an
abundance of practical rules and suggestions. When die
labor involved in teaching this and at the same time
another branch of Theology became excessive, and it was
necessary to relinquish Homiletics — diough always a
fiivorite branch — the author determined, before the sub«
ject should £EMle from his mind, to undertake the work he
had contemplated.

The treatise is therefore a result of practical instruction,
but it is not simply a printed course of lectures. Tlie
materials existing in the form of brief notes have been
everywhere rewrought, the literature of the subject care*
folly re-examined, and the place which had been occupied
by text-books, filled v} an independent discussion.

Those who may think of employing the work as a text*
book are requested to note, that it is divided into indepen-
dent Parts, which, while arranged in the order indicated
by the nature of the subject, may be taken up in any other
order required by the exigencies of instruction. Bomf
would prefer to begin with Arrangement, in order that stu*
dents may at once have the benefit of this in preparing
sermons or sketches. Others might begin with Style, in
order to general exercises in composition; and possibly
others with Delivery. The author would himself prefer
if using the book, to take, after the Introduction, the first
three chapters of Part I, and then Part II and perhaps
other portions before completing Part I. The cross refer-
ences from one part to another will be found somewhat
numerous. In the plan of the work, a few instances occur of
departure from a strict technical distribution of the topics,
for the sake of practical convenience. Thus the matters
embraced under Illustration, Expository Preaching, or
Imagination, would strictiy belong to several different
parts of the work, but it is practically better to discuss aU
at the same time.


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