the approach to the more complex field represented by the Old. Many
unexpected analogies will aid in understanding the intricate literary
history of the older Scriptures. The point of view assumed throughout is
that of the busy pastor, missionary, Sunday-school teacher, and scholar,
who have little time for technical study, but who are not afraid
of truth because it is new and who firmly believe that God is ever
revealing himself more fully to men and that his truth shall make us
free. It is hoped that this general survey will prove for them but an
introduction to a far deeper and more profitable study.

To the Reverend J.F. McFarland, D.D., of the Bible Study Union, to the
Reverend S.A. Cooke, D.D., of the Methodist Book Concern, to Mr. John
H. Scribner of the Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sunday-school
Work, to the Reverend M.C. Hazard, D.D., of the Pilgrim Press, and to
the Reverend F.K. Sanders, Ph.D., of the Congregational Sunday-school
and Publishing Society, who have generously read the manuscript of this
book, I am deeply indebted, not only for their valuable suggestions, but
also for their strong expressions of personal interest in the practical
ends which it seeks to conserve, I am also under great obligation to the
Reverend Morgan Miller, of Yale, for his untiring vigilance in revising
the proof of a volume written within the all too brief limits of a
Christmas vacation.

C.F.K.

YALE UNIVERSITY,

January, 1906.