The following several things call for a revised edition at this time: The copyright will have to be renewed in 1898, and this affords good opportunity to bring out a new edition; the original stereotype plates have become greatly worn; the correction of a few minor errors, and some additions and alterations, made desirable by the author’s larger experience in studying and teaching the subject, are called for; there have been great contributions to the literature of Homiletics since the work was first