PREFACE. THE close of another year completes the fourth volume of the Biblical Treasury. In these volumes will be found illustrations of upwards of a thousand passages of Scripture, ranging over a variety of topics instructive to Biblical students. The estimation in which the work is held is evinced by the large circulation it has attained, and the favourable notices it has received from the most competent critics. These facts are both gratifying and encouraging. To the large number of persons engaged in Sunday school teaching, this work is calculated to render essential service in the effort to make their instruction interesting and practical, and on the Editor's part, nothing shall be wanting to render it increasingly useful, his great desire being to make it a standard library of Biblical Illustration. To those who have aided him by their contributions he tenders his hearty thanks; and while soliciting a continuance of their help, would seek to enlist the co-operation of new contributors. a 2 |