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PREFACE.

The generous reception given to my book on the Parables, has encouraged me to issue this companion volume on the Miracles of our Saviour, the rather, as there seemed to be room for a fresh treatment of these suggestive themes. The "Notes" of Trench, like everything which came from their author's hand, are able, thorough, scholarly, and will always hold a very high place in the estimation of students. But the, homiletic eleraent in them is meagre, and in these days, when the question how to turn biblical subjects to the best account, in the pulpit, for the meeting of the necessities of our modern life, is attracting so much attention, there is a call for something more direct and practical than the archbishop has supplied. The recent volume of Professor Laidlaw, of Edinburgh, is evidence of that call and will do much to meet it; but before it was issued the manuscript of the following pages had passed out of my hands, and arrangements had been made for their publication. On such a subject, however, there is no competition, but only co-operation between brethren.

My aim throughout has been expository and practical

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