"Very few names are better known than that of Dr. David Thomas. And perhaps it would be difficult to mention two authors who, during the last quarter of a century, have influenced so much the pulpits of Great Britian and America, and indeed every country where the English language is spoken, as the late Robertson, of Brighton, and Dr Thomas, of Stockwell. These two in their works are a kind of public property of all denominations alike, Conformists and Nonconformists."-The Banner.

"This is the BEST and most widely circulated of the books published in England for the promotion of pulpit oratory. It is carefully edited and replete with solid matter. Its standpoint is large-hearted, above creeds, and evangelical in the widest sense. Its contents fully justify us in recommending it to preachers and theologians generally, and in Germany also."—J. P. Lange, D.D., Author of "Homiletic Commentaries,'

"The author is one of the most vigorous, untrammelled thinkers of the present day; every page of this book bears testimony to his deep earnestness and glows with healthful, invigorating thought. The book contains some of the most striking and well-timed discourses it has ever been our good fortune to meet with. They abound with thought, and may be regarded as models to those friends of reform, who would render the modern pulpit a true and influential exponent of the spirit of the times."-The Eclectic Review.

"One of the most thoughtful and eloquent serials within our knowledge."-Church of England Monthly Review.

Having outlived many competitors, the work appears with unabated vigor and youthful freshness."-Christian World.

"The 'Homilist' is of all thought-books for ministers the most suggestive and philosophical we have seen."-The Spectator.

"It has no worthy competitor either of the past or present. It is wonderfully suggestive, and, in regard to style, is most stimulating and refreshing."-Dundee Advertiser.

"There really is no work for ministers equal to it... It has discourses that might be matched against the most splendid productions of ancient or modern times. There is hardly a page that is not suggestive or fruitful of precious thought."-Theological Quarterly.

"The Editor is well known in the religious world as a man of genius, gifted with powers of eloquence almost unsurpassed by any modern preacher."-Congregational Pulpit.

"The work resembles the expositions of the late F. W. Robertson, of Brighton."-The Guardian.

"The Author has studied patiently and devoutly both the philosophy of the mind and the revealed will of God. He sees the preconfiguration of human nature to spiritual truth, and presents the Gospel as designed

and fitted to meet and perfect it."-The Non. conformist.

"It was said of Burke that you could not take shelter under the same hedge with him in a shower of rain without finding out that he was no common man; and we are sure that few readers could read a single page of these volumes without coming to the same conclusion with regard to Dr. Thomas."-Daily Chronicle. "This is a periodical of rare worth. . . It is teeming with thought and provokes thought.

It is well fitted to be a guide to any one who wishes to be a thinker."-Perth Advertiser. "He is evidently a man of refined taste and cultivated intellect. He has rendered high service to the cause of truth as an Expositor and Critic. There are passages which for richness of imagery and choiceness of rhetoric have scarcely ever been surpassed."-Church Standard.

"They are no commonplace productions, nor are they adapted to commonplace minds."British Quarterly.

"Dr. Thomas is a man of spirit so profound and comprehensive, so catholic and charitable, that the Homilist' could not be other than that which it is."-Edinburgh Daily Advertiser.

'Vigorous and elegant are the adjectives which most readily suggest themselves in characterising this work."- Wesleyan Magazine.

"The pulpit will never lose its power while sermons are delivered, which for freshness and terseness, for originality of thought, vigour of style, and catholicity of sentiment, culminating in heart-stirring application to men's minds and bosoms, can be compared with these. I can heartily recommend it to all my clerical brethren, who would adapt their preaching to meet the errors of the present day; to all, whether ministers or laymen, who wish to add to their store of knowledge."-Rev. William Webster, M.A., late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, Author of " The Syntax and Synonyms of the Greek Testament," and Joint Editor of "Webster and Wilkinson's Greek Testament.'

"The Homilist' has become the hand-book of thousands of ministers of all persuasions Dr. Thomas has a powerful yet chaste imagination, which presses all nature, life, science, art, and history, into its service. He thor

oughly grasps his theme, pours his soul into it, developes it in the most logical manner, clothes his thoughts in a noble garb, and enunciates his discourse with thrilling effect.' -The Illustrated News.

"It is full of suggestiveness and vigour of honest exegesis and sound philosophy."British Quarterly Review.

"Redolent with all that is grandest and loftiest in the field of literature. An encyclopedia of pulpit tonics. Nothing worthy to be compared to it."-Shield of Faith.

'Homilist

"The discontinuance of the would be a very great loss to exegesis.' Dr. Ellicot, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.