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Divinity School of Yale University, }
New Haven, Conn., April 25, 1891. }
Rev. and Dear Sir:
At the close of your instructive and stimulating lectures in theLyman Beecher Course before the members of this Theological School, wedesire to express to you the satisfaction with which they have beenlistened to, and we are glad to know that, by their publication in theUnited States and Great Britain, the pleasure and profit which we haveall 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.
These nine Lectures on Preaching were delivered, on the Lyman BeecherFoundation, to the divinity students of Yale University in the springof this year. With the kind concurrence of the Senate of Yale, five ofthem were redelivered, on the Merrick Foundation, to the students ofOhio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio.
In the Appendix an Ordination Address