Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.