06.00.3. Introduction
INTRODUCTION
IT HAS been my privilege for a period of years to serve as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Co-Professor with the author of this book. Among other subjects “Homiletics” has always been taught in THE NORTHWESTERN SCHOOLS. I consider it a distinctive honor to be asked for a word of INTRODUCTION to these chapters.
Dr. W. B. Riley is the author of more than eighty volumes and certainly needs no introduction among Bible-believing Christians on any of the six continents. The vital subject of this volume, The Preacher and His Preaching, well expresses the contents of the book, many chapters of which have been used in the classroom by the author and myself. As we have searched here and there through textbooks on the subject, again and again we have come back to the author’s material which has been enthusiastically received and profitably employed. As this volume goes forth, it is my prophecy that like the author’s book on Pastoral Problems it will go through many editions, because of its brevity of compass, its straightforward simplicity, and the practical suggestions that it offers the preacher for his preaching.