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The Preacher and His Models: Introduction & Preface

By James Stalker


      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

      COPYRIGHT, 1891,

      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.

      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.

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See Also:
   Introduction & Preface
   Lecture 1 - Introductory
   Lecture 2 - The Preacher as a Man of God
   Lecture 3 - The Preacher as a Patriot
   Lecture 4 - The Preacher as a Man of the Word
   Lecture 5 - The Preacher as a False Prophet
   Lecture 6 - The Preacher as a Man
   Lecture 7 - The Preacher as a Christian
   Lecture 8 - The Preacher as an Apostle
   Lecture 9 - The Preacher as a Thinker
   Appendix - An Ordination Charge

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