Nothing needs to be said by way of preface to this latest addition to the “Short Course Series,” except that it does not aim at being a treatise on the emotional life of Jesus, and that even the field indicated by its title is covered only in part. Other attractive and fruitful topics—such as our Lord’s delight in nature, the emotions arising out of His more intimate personal relations, His emotion in the presence of death, His shame, and the rich emotional content of the Passion-narrative—readily suggest them- selves, but have had to be altogether omitted, or else are touched upon in a merely incidental way. Whether it may be possible to me at some future time to remedy this, I know not. Meantime, this

series of studies is published with the hope that it will be welcome to members of my former congregations and to my many friends, both old and new, as a memento of one who always thinks of them with affection and gratitude, as well as acceptable and profitable to a wider circle of readers.

ROBERT LAW.

                      Toronto,

               December 1914.

"Jesus is God lived by man." — Godet.

 "The face of Jesus is like all men’s faces." — Russian Proverb.

"We find in Emotion a function so highly beneficial, so indispensable for full vitality, that we confidently include in our ideal of human character a permanent and immeasurable richness of emotional sensibility." — Sully.