For a general Preface to the series of volumes which this volume is the third, the reader is referred to Volume I. In regard to the present volume it is perhaps sufficient to say, that on account of the limited time (daily recitations through one year) given to the study of the Gospels by my classes, the work is not so thorough as might be desired; yet on account of the comparatively long time given to it, the work is much more thorough than in any other College known to the author. Having tried the method of teaching these four Narratives by a harmony; and having found, that while by this method the student may acquire a fair knowledge of the events recorded, he must be constantly in some confusion as to where he is in any one of the Narratives, and this must end his course without a distinct apprehension of the mode of treatment followed by any one of the four writers, I have long since abandoned this method, and followed the one which is indicated in this volume. Each of the Four Gospels is studied alone, with only such references to the others as may serve to elucidate a passage or to compare the plans of the authors; and at the close a rapid review is taken of the chronological order of the events. In this way it is found that the student comes to know both the general plan of every writer, and his distinctive method of treating every subject, without failing to learn, so far as it can be ascertained from the scanty information given, the order of time in which the events occurred. He acquires a systematic knowledge of that which may be known in the life of Jesus, and he knows individually the narratives out of which this knowledge has been compiled.

THE AUTHOR.      

[CNSH3 iv]