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Volume 4 D ecember, 1929 , N umber 12

THE PREACHER A MAN OF PRAYER

B y T h e E d itor E. Stanley Jones slated before CongreRationultst ministers in New England that he was sur­ prised, on Ills return la the United Stutcs, to find a 11 non praying ministry.” This statement brought out a number of comments and confessions. Mfcny, both of comments and confessions, were, rather in the nature o f defenses. Just think of it—o “ nonpraying Ministry.?’ And do not f°r~ get that always a nonpraying ministry is a worldly, self*sccking ministry; It is, of course, not possible to set up a standard by which to measure therprayer life. If, we should say that so much time spent in prayer is the standard, this would open the door for , the formalist, and the Pharisee, and it would also become a stumbling stone to many tt tirtcerc 1 and overpressed soul. - ’ ■ And yet. there is nothing that we can think of (hat is more incongruous than a preacher who docs not pray. And by' praying,, we do not mean simply the utterance of wordi or the following out of a form, Wfc mean fervent, sincere, insistent waiting upon God for the privilege of com­ munion with Him and direction and anointing-from H(m. ’ , I think it is time for every preacher lq reread Boupd’s 1 ‘Preacher and Prayer,” Suppose ,we - alt Set ourselves to do this'within the ten days following [foe reading of these lines. Then surely we would be profited immensely by inserting; one good book on prayer into . the monthly reading course. We' .would all welcome information on prayer, I know, but we probably need inspiration to pray more than anything else. , And turning to the other side for a moipent, mighty preachers have always been mighty, prayers. In fact prayer has always been the chief factor in the lives of those who' have lvon souls and led ■ the Church on to victory. Wo may sit about, and wait for the .appearance of a preacher of a type to fit our day. But it were better to remember that the prayer room, rather than.the seminary,- has always been the real “ preacher factory." There arc many cxcuscs, perhaps-some, real l-easons, for present day curtailment of prayer' time. But that is a false industry which makes us "too busy to pray,” and a false criterion' which would permit a substitute for prayer. There is no worthwhile preaching without that peculiar factor which wc call unction, and there is and never was unction without prayer—much prayer, prevailing prayer, . • ' . ■

OUR WIDE THEME FIELD • Bv The E d jt o k . RECENT writer mentions a conversation between ihc editor of a large dally paper and ■ the pastor of a large city church. In that conversation it was pointed out by the editor A who is a close student of the times, that there is today little preaching on the real funda­ mentals of eternal truth, such as the reality of God and the devil, heaven and hell, and the suf­ ferings and death o f Jesus Christ in order to make a to n e m e n t So t the sins of the world. Because of the drift in presenting the gospel to the people, many churches arc filled.'with ungodly members, Esthclical teachings have taken- the place of the gospel of the Son of God, with the result that even the official boards of many churches are made up of men and womefi who know nothing THE PREACHERS MAGAZINE

about Jesus Christ experimentally, but who are much at hoplc at card parties and dances and even at worse places of sin and dissipation. h " But,ns wc thought of these thinss, we were reminded that the shortcomings of others but' "bring heavier responsibilities upon the faithful. When others neglect the fundamental themes one by one, wc must add such themes to our list of “ specialties." Anti from this point of-view, the full gospel preacher of today has no room whatever to complain, for almost the. whole field of essential truth is so largely neglected that his own theme field is.wider than cvcr.beforc. Recently we heard a sermon on "The Devil.’’ The material was practically alt takcrifroift ‘ the Bible, speculation occupying but a small place, and yet for the better part of an hour . the preacher kept the interest of. the'people and many expressed themselves as being wonderfully instructed, warned and helped. And 1 am confident that an orthodox sermon on God would be just as new and just as interesting to the average audience today. ■ Thirty years ago, when I entered the ministry, wc supposed' that holiness was the neglcctcd theme, and we offered as.an apology (or our continuous emphasis upon it■ the fact thit wc had' to preach it for ourselves and for the many prcachers who failed to preach on it. But now there arc so many themes for which wc must atone that it is really a wonderfully easy thing to be an “ unusual" preacher. About all one has to do is to stick to the fundamental themes of the gospcland it will soon be nofced ab()Ut that he is "unusual." : There is less excuse* than ever for going to the newspaper and to the magazine for themes. Go to the wonderlut-storehouses of Christian history( doctrine, and biography, Preach on the most foundational themes of our holy religion. Bring out the old and essential truths as the best defense against modern heresies. There never was a more timcty hour for the preacher of the old- time gospel than right now, and even the"humblest prodaimer of the pure Word of God can thank God that he is needed and needed much. .

DEVOTIONAL j

THE MINISTER AND HIS SERMONS mouthpieces of God, Sacred is our calling; and

B y B a s il W . M u l e h ' ■ our tusk is noble, worthy of the powers of the HE chief work of the minister ' is that most brilliant, and the highest trained. Then as of being a preacher, an announcer of glad ministers much attention should, be devoted to. T tidings, a prophet of God, He may be our sermons—rtheir origin, their preparation, their ap executive, an'administrator, a man with capa­ delivery and. their results. Hence let us note: cities fitting him for social obligations, but funda­ I. T iieir O rigin , The' Mblc is the out­ mentally the minister must be a preacher, He standing sourcc of scrmonic material. The min­ that succecds in his labors of the ministry in ister who would desire a long pastorate, and an any line, such as ability to finance his church, to ■ increasing power and ability in preaching can meet his people in social realms, and fails to be­ find no greater mine for his sermons than the come an efficient preacher, achieves less than the Word of God: Others may discover; germ highest goal God sets for him, Wc are callcd to thoughts' for their sermons from their visi­ ’ be prophets, comparable to tho'c of ancient tations, their reading,, etc.,. but the minister day, who with a message d'.rcct fjrom God thrilled that will be remembered is he that preaches from his audiences, 'yes, moved his nation to repen­ the Bible. Herein is'discovcred no.dearth of mater­ tance. Wic arc thc.voices of God.clamoring in an ial,1 no lack of texts. Every message is fresh and age of extreme sensualism nnd worldly ease— gripping to the attention of the hearers, For fifty prophets in a wilderness more barren than that years Spurgeon made the source of his serxnonic .in which John of old spake, We arc. prcachcrs aids to be the Bible, and of him it is said that his , "of righteousness, . heraWers at it divine passion, sermons have had a wilier circulation than any ■ (2) THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE •555

other preacher of the Christian era. 11c prcached founder of modern Calyinistic theology,- or Mar­ the Bible. It is pfttimcs remarked by young tin Luther. If one woutdbc an eloquent preacher, .prcachcrs that they cannot find texts for their let him study deeply the sermons of such men sermons, or parsagcs upon which to build their as IVJiitcfield, Talfnitgc,- Massillon, the eloquent sermons. ■ Greater familiarity with, and more French divine, Thomas Guthrie, whose sermons arc "devoted study of the Bible will remedy this models of homiletic eloquence, or Chrysostom, fault. The preacher that knows his Bible is the “ the golden-mmithed,'1 so named :bccause of his ■ man w ho-never lacks 'a message for -bis' - pulpit. eloquence in the pulpit. Would one be an evan­ Alexander Madaren, who has bequeathed the gelist, then let him read the sermons of the ccnturics llis1 matchlcss Expositions of the Holy ■world's leading evangelists, such as Finney and Scriptures, a grtater treasure- than which no Moody and men of similar caliber. man could leave, laid the foundation fnr this work The-following works arc useful collections of by1 fifty years of expository preaching. sermons, Trom which one can discover an addi- When other men were” preaching theories, find­ . tionnl wealth .of prcaching, material: The Expo- -.. ing sermons in “ babbling brocks and twink­ tiliiin of the Holy Scriptures, by Mnclaren; ling stars,”, Wesley was propounding-, the worthy Select Sermons, by Talmagc (out of print, and doctrines of the Scripiurcs. Theodore Parker, the extremely rare; but valuable)'; ■ Sermons by Spur­ light of Unitarianirm of^ the Ifisl ccntury, might geon, twenty volumes; pulpii Eloquence, by Fisk, have builded a massive audience' in liostnn by four vo)umrs of the masifr sermon.s by the world's preaching upon themes, other than-those of the leading prcachcrs; The Speaker’s Bible, edited by Hible; but Joseph Parker, whose sermons oft- Hastings, a recent publication affording the best times flash with wit and wisdom as read in . of the world's sermons, both of the past and of his People’s Bible', the Congregationuliat of Lon­ today; Great T cxtsoj the Jiible, edited by Hast* don, -established a mightier influence lor the inns; and of course the select sermons by oneV> .coming centuries and for eternity by expounding favorite preachers through the Christian centuries. ■ the Word of God to the multitudes of his city. Agiitn, sermonic helps, such as preacher's maga­ Then let Ihc -Bible be the supreme source for our zines, homiletic reviews, dictionaries of texts and sermonic material, for our texts* and for our volumes of sermon outlines uffer the preachcr passages for exposition.'.' The biblical expositor incV>i«jMrable',sourccs from which lie can "dig out” - never tacks for a message for the soldi of men. new sermons. A wealth of vigorous sermons arc A greater study of the Scriptures will not only af­ ' ofttimcs discovered in such magazines as our ford us more sermons to preach, but will also own Preacher's -Magazine, The Expositor, The pivc us a holier type of sermons, sermons more Homiletic Jievicut (the older bound volumes of attractive, sermons which will move our audiences. the same are by far the most fertile for the Another source of sermonic material is the store- fundamentalist). In the appropriate sections are ■house of the sermons of I lie preachers of the ( i j j i ' found outlines on the great texts of the Bible, .'past. It has Well been said that the minister / on seasonal thcmcs,_on dogma and doctrine. One who never quotes other men's sermons, never may read through many such outlines and-never reads (hem, will never be quoted, and n e w be gain a single item for future use, but he will de­ read. A few hours spent in reading the master­ velop within himself the power of outlining texts, pieces of the past princes of . the'pulpit will not which many times is far more valuable than the only- bring to our minds new sermons, new, discovery of available passages for sermons.; thoughts-upon which to build Sermons, original Bound volumes of the Homiletic Review can be i;crn> ideas which can be expanded into messages bought from some second hand dealer at a very for the pulpit, but will also enliven bur own low figure. The volumes of the lait quarter of vocabulary, develop the . preaching cajKicity, and the past Century includc sermon outlines, by some give birth to the homiletic power of ■ shaping of the leading ministers of that age, and are sermons. - Some prcachcrs tower above, their fel­ worthy anyone’s time in studying them. lows through Jfjc centuries as the Rocklcs tower Then in such works as dictionaries of texts above the surrounding plains, and their sermons one will find sermonic outlines. Some of these should furnish the novice examples of the art of are: The Expositor's, Dictionary v f Texts, The preaching. If one would expound deep doctrines Cyclopedia of Texts, by Inglis, and in the books read the messages of Timothy Dwight, John Wes­ on preaching by Hallock (which can be purchased ley,. Augustine the famous bishop of Hippo and from our Publishing HoUse) there are always THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE

outlines of the sermons of great prcadicrs. One mage was due to his power o f using the Rrcat cannot fail in this connection to make mention occasions of the church year for special sermons. o f The Treasury of ,Scripture Knowledge, His word pictures of Easter will icmain to be wherein the cross reference pna'aRts of the Iliblc ' cherished' as long as man remembers the resur- are listed, and simitar lusts to the one in hand rection of his Lord- are given. Then if you be* one of .the/few icyiiortals, . More ■formidable volumes arc also devoted to yo:i may find sermons in brooks, flowers and fc-mri n outlines and mi (trials. Sonic of the stones, and all .life. The bird anthems may be’ best of these are: The Pulpit Comment a ry, The transformed into God’s Hallelujah Choruses,'all Homiletic Coinnwniary, both of which carry sec­ the universe’ may become the Cathedral of the tions devoted entirely to sermon outlines by the Almighty, with God itl llte organ, and every mailer preachers. But aj Dr, Chapman says. sound lyric with holy praise. Crossing the dcsept “One can (Jo' no better than to pass them all the old old marked trails may suggest a ser­ up" for T/tc Biblical Illustrator, whichis wholly mon on‘"The Old Paths ’ ; a rose garden bursting given •td^ermon outlines on the texts, and longer in its grahdeur may furnish material for a ,scr-. passages .of the Bible. This is a homifetic commen­ '■nwa on “ The Rose o f Sharon"; a dark night with tary.made tip'"of;sermon outlines, on the various one beaming star,may become a sermon on “ The passages of the Bible, and is composed of some SO Bright and Morning Star” ; a lily may expand volumes o f’ extremely finely printed material. In until it bccomcs a message on “ The Hand that this field it is without a peer. The average younf; Decks the' Lily" with the te*t, “ Consider the' minister could .well afford to sell every other )i!ies . ^ a diamond may grow to be a. ser­ volume of his library in order to purchase this, mon on “ Crown Jewels’1—'jewel findings, jewel set, if he can do so In no other manner (arid his polishing or grinding, nnd jewel setting. Or a1 Prince Albert coutd well be. sold with the rest mountain brook may roll on in its course to the „ ofth eip to make this possible). Then the other sea, and from it may bq born a message * bn standard' Bible Commentaries,, such as Matihfiw “The Crimson Stream.” ;A trip through, our » Henry, Adam Clarke, . Jamison, Fausset .and great southwest in the early spring may become a Brown, Ellirott, The Expositor’s lliblc, and Lange sermon on “ The Blossoming Desert" with the' ■ ofttimes give sermon outlines which at text, “The desert shall blossom. as a rose.’’ Or , least will be suggestive if , not preach- as was the case with Job, a fading flower may able, If. one leans toward the Greek,- lie, give a sermon on “ Painted Pictures of Life,” can tisc The Expositor’ ! Greek Testantent, Vin­ with the text "lie co’meth forth like a flower" cent's' Word Stud it's,. Alford’s Greek YTestatnent, One brief consideration . is necessary before or Bengal's Gnqinon, Herein are treasures for turning 1 to the next item. After the . minister the minister undreamed of. It is said that Bishop has his suggestions for sermons, texts, germ .Asbury of the early pioneer Methodist church thoughts, fleeting pictures, what shall he do with' spent several hours each day in.the.study of the. them, or .how shall he keep them? Many of ■ 'Bible in the original languages, _ the world's mightiest men of the pulpit have Great occasions, furnish material for sermons. made it a practice to carry a note book with them If one learns how to use them,,he will discover in which they jotted down every text, and germ the ability to make even the holiday seasons thought for a sermon, which came to them. * ’ furnish sermons for his pulpit, Christmas, Easter, r Then at their leisure .time they worked out' Decoration day, Independence day, Labor day, outlines from these texts and thoughts. Such, Armistice day, Thanksgiving day, all afford it is well to do. Then one should file these away sources for valuable and timely sermons for the for future reference. Many will never be preached, f congregation. . Such an outline might run ds fol­ but at some future time while turning through lows: Christmas—<“The Star"; Easier—' ‘When these cards a sermon may be born in an instant, the Gardens Bunt with Lilies Fair"; Decora­ that will be one of the ' treasured . messages of tion day—J'The Glory of Heroes Unsuns"; In­ your ministry. Such a file could be termed or dependence day—"Christian Freedom"; Labor day labeled, “ Unpreached Sermons.” — '‘ Fellow workers with G od"; Armistice—“The II. But there is more to- preaching Hum the Battle Royal,” or “ The Fight of Faith"; mere discovery of texts, themes, thoughts, etc. Thanksgiving—'‘He Crowneth the Year With After this process comes the preparation of the His Goodness." Much of the sutccss of Tal- sermon, The question, is, How can we best pro- 'i * THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE 3S7.

pare our sermons to prcach them effectively? flashes upon Uie mind and is preached while ,*Many methpds of preparation have been'em ­ at’ -hot heal and the result is electric. This can ployed lo advantage. Talmage on one hand wrote be said'of many of the sermons of Savonarola, every sermon hefore he preached It; while Henry (he pulpitect of FJorencc in the fifteenth century. Ward Beecher, freely thought'upon it text dur­ Hut'such successes arc rare. The order seems to ing the week, and then for one hour on Sunday be that of Dr. Uresee to give much attention morning just before he went into the pulpit he to meditation, rumination on the subject. In- intensely devoted 'himself to the matter of ar­ this . manner, for days and even months,;.'the rangement.and order of the message, Then when theme, the sermon is . growing upon one, until he preached the message it was with only this ..when.it is preached into it is thrown one’s very , one hour of critical and ardent preparation. personality. Much of the success of Hr. Chap­ Thomas Guthrie wrote his sermons, and polished man, as lie has stated, is due to this process. them as critically as the most careful literature, ■ Then comes the time of actual working out and then preached-.'(hem‘ from memory. The of the details, the sequences of the thoughts, the result was amazing. Jonathan Edwards, whose order of the points, the choice of illustrations, etc. " fiery sermon, “ Sinners, in the Hands of an Angry This is a delicate matter and should-requite much God," still rings through the year—under which indention. For the selection of the points to he sermon ■ scores of strong men hung oh to. the ■treated, and-thcir order goes far In the su&css backs o f the seats for fear of falling into hell— or failure of the message. Dr. Chapman has wrote and read every word of the sermon. Thus stated that it is not so much what one puts into we sec that the style of preparation in no man- ' a sermon that countsi but mifcy times the things ncr affccts.thc greatness of the mcFsage—this which'he leaves out does much to strengthen depends upon the, preacher himself. It is best the message. One should aim to reach a climax for one to discover' that style of preparation in' his last section of the discourse, and not to w hich‘best suits his capacities, and then to use begin with a\ climax and finally die away ij» in­ this method. But the necessary item is the terest and importance. Much care. should be preparation. To prcach ' well, ■ even under the taken with the working out of the introduction,- inspiration of the Spirit, preparation is necessary. opening -sentences, the pivotal points. Orators. First, one should, critically, study the text of ■ whose success depends upon the favor of the the message., fThls 'includes a knowledge of the populace have discovered that it is the first five, several items of the text, geographical locations, minutes which determines the success or the • if any are included, meaning of the words, know­ failure of the message. Too often we ministers ledge of the contcxt, what the commentaries have . straggle in our opening sentences as though it , to say concerning the passage in hand. . made no 'difference whether or not the congre­ • Second, all collateral or crflss-rcfcrence texts gation, is interested, for "we will get them after should be studied. This throws much light upon ■ a while; or they will be too courteous to leave the passage from the biblical angle?1 and many until one fa through with his message. This is a times brings out hidden beauties and meanings dire mistake. The introduction should be care- ■ which would otherwise be obscured. Third, one . fully planned so as to grip the attention of the then should read all the available material on audience. One can well aiford to read Dr. Hill’s ,the text. This would include sermon outlines ^emorpble ' chapters on “ Homiletics" in. the in the commentaries, wherein one discovers new Preaclitr’s /,fn^azinr, or turn to Pattison’s work - thoughts and fresh ideas! With this comcs the on the same subject,' or read Phelps' Theory oj reading o f sermons on the same theme. One Preaching. does not go through this process just ta discover In the outlining of the body of the .message the sermons,. or to find sermons which .'he can trite saying, “ Have something to say," is well prcach tecondhartded, but for the purpose of to keep in mind. It has been found that. the clearing his own thinking, and of'giving him a sermon can well be grouped under three headl­ background o f information on the'text.' Great ines, or main divisions. More than this may be­ preaching depends, one has well stated, upon come' unwieldy. Talmage1 was noted for his extensive reading in the period of preparation. many points, which h& briefly developed with Fourthly the masters of the-pulpit have given his flashing wit and ready vpcabulary. Treat much, time to the matter of meditation on the the three points in their logical order; and aim ■ sermon. There arc times when a. new sermon to prepare so as to rcach a climax which will 358 THE PREACH GR’S MAGAZINE '

stir the imagination, touch the emotions, and up for. three years, Needless to say he developed move the man to action. A poor sermon has a powerful and modulated voice. Young orafors many times been retrieved by a gifted and elo­ have found that this delivering of their mes­ quent, or stirring dimax. Talmage owed much sages developed the voice, taught them bow to of his success to his climaxes'. Some of his mat­ speak wh#n thov fated their audiences. It is erial would'be commonplace, but when he rcachcd said that Cicero, . the famous Roman orator, his climax his entire soul would be thrown into, practiced public speaking before a friend or a it.. This was all worked out carefully in his pre­ critic for thirty minutes a day during the course paration, We are too prone to depend upon' the of thirty years. His speeches still ring through' inspiration al the hour, or upon a divine af­ the centuries. The golden. mouthed Demosthe­ flatus, all of. which arc needful,'and to neglect nes followed the same coursc. In the preparation this season of careful study and preparation.', of the sermon we cannot give too much time Should the sermon be written? This is a vex­ to training in the delivery of the. same. Some ing question. For many times when the ser­ have found it extremely valuable to read aloud mon is written, this cold formal message in a from great sermons for thirty minutes each day, ; stereotyped. voicc is preach at, not to, the con­ and in this way they not. only trained their, voices, gregation. But- many- of the princes of the but they also kept them “limbered up" for the pulpit declare that they owed the success o f strenuous Jabor of delivering two sermons each their ministry as well as .its length upon the Sunday, The great orators havp ofttimes spent fact that in their younger days they carefully ; as long as five to seven’ years preparing a spccch wrote every sermon before they preached __it'. which could be delivered in an hour, but when Dr.- A. M ;. Hills attributed much of his-power once delivered it became a ^masterpiece, to be 1 of expression in his writings to the fact that dur­ remembered and studied as long as man is in­ ing the'first ten years'of this early ministry all terested in vocal expression. Could Jess prepara­ of his sermdns were written. No preparation tion lie expected from a minister of the glad on the human spore could he’ more valuable than tidings of salvation? Man may expect less, but that of writing the sermons.. God can inspire wc wonder if God does. one as deeply in his study ns well as on his This is the human phase of the preparation,' feet while speaking. In this manner accuracy of valuable but not the only >}hie qua non, TJie mes­ ■expression and beauly and force of diction are ac­ sage is never, prepared. until it is bathed in quired.' But the consensus of opinion of those prayer and divine meditation. On our' knees who ' Write upon this subject is that \vhcn'the is the place to prepare our sermons for preaching. sermon is written, it should, not' be 'memorized, Many a minister stands before th e ’mirror de­ but one should go to the pulpit free from his livering his sermon, correcting bis gestures, mod­ manuscript, and should preach.under the anoint­ ulating his voice, striving to attain a trcmen- ing of the Spirit the message which God has 'dous climai, putting the final touches upon, bis given him. General Superintendent Goodwin message, while he should be on his knees saturat­ stated that in his younger days, he first preached ing it with divine inspiration and holy unc-. his sermons, then after this he wrote, them. In tion. ■ Let it be noted that we will preach no ,thi$ manner an accuracy o f expression, as well bettcrr^egardless' of how well we prepare— os a' natural spoken or preached style was than we have prayed. God and His anointing is achieved.' the final word in the preparation of thcR>crmon. Another question to be faced'by the younger Better not preach than to speak without His minister is, should the message be practiced be­ anointing, fore it is preached? Some ministers have made III. T iie D elivery of t iie Se r m o k , VVheti it a practice to deliver the message orally in the the sermon is discovered and prepared,'the story study before going into the pulpit to preach it. is but haff completed. It must be delivered, for L In this manner one acquires facility in thinking this is the end of preaching, this is the period- ,upon one’s feet, and bccoroes accustomed to his . which far surpasses all others, and is based upon voice. _ As ministers we give entirely too small that which, goes before. Iti the delivery of the . attention to the culture of the speaking voice. sermon several items must be noted, when Henry Wprd Beecher was a young preacher .! The sermon should be delivered, extemporan­ : be regularly went to the woods and exploded eously. This does not mean that no reference the vowels for an hour a day. This was kept ■ shall be made to notes, clippings, etc. It has to THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE 350

do with the manner o f speaking. The prepara­ louder tone, to be. distinctly' hearti by a larger tion shall be diligently, done, but the speaking ' audience. ’ This quality of tone is easily gained shall not be that of the delivery of a memorized if one will read aloud in such.a manner tis though message. In this way the fcycs are free to study one were’ conversing with a friend. the congregation, the gestures arc not mechanical, Dependence must be placed upon tkt Spirit. the voice' can be suited to the materia), and Vtiction has not been, successfully defined, but (herd is liberty of action not otherwise achieved, whatever it is, every minister recognizes when This is the natural oratorical method. ■ ■ ‘ he preaches with it, and when his messages arc Attention should be paid to the voice. Whether devoid of this subtle heavenly influence. Our or not wc realize it the manner in which some- power of public preaching comes • from God's ministers preach speaks so. loud that the audichcc use of man’s capacities. It is our part to fur­ cannot hear what they < say. A ’ grating voice, ■ nish the capacities, the ability, the human prepara­ a yelling tone by way of trying to emphasize tion'and to allow Him to anoint us with divine" some point, a throaty, voice, indistinct articu- inspiration, and then audiences Will be moved. Mation, a monotonous sing-song tone, ail detract Without this dependence upon God-our sermons from the effectiveness of the message. Years of become but essays on moral and religious themes, practice have been the price paid by. orators literary’ addresses, and attempts at popular ora­ for their powcr^ol eloquence, and the minister tory. it is said that Wihitcfielti by speaking should be no less diligent and’ careful in his' just-the word Mesopotamia, could move an au­ delivery. One of the early bishops of Methodism dience to tears, so great was his power. He fur­ took time each winter ,to study tinder 's teacher nished the- voice, the natural ability, and al­ of oratory so that his preaching would be more- lowed God to unctionizc U, and the result was powerful. Whjle it is not possible for all min­ that hundreds, were moved to accept Christ as isters’ to do ttiis' still a good b oot on public Master. Robert Half, the .suffering English. di­ speaking will help the average preacher to correct vine, lived so near heaven’s open door that when many of his;common speech defects.. Thirty min­ he spoke even the .hardest and most stilted au­ utes a day reading aloud ’ polished sermons will' diences could not withhold their tears. This g o : a long, way in aiding one iff his preaching' was G od's; anointing'upon him. For such unc­ ■ability. It is well to read before a mirror so tion the youthful minister roust constantly seek. that one can study his facial expression, and Illiterate men preach as princes .with it, and: alter his oddities which detract from the message. unitnointcd the highest trained become but gib­ Demosthenes developed one of the greatest voices bering dcehimers. , of the ages from a thin; wheezy voicc through ' Attention must be given to the English of the constant practice. Should we as ministers give pulpit. .Too often English crudities are found in the same attention to our voices greater results our sermons; common grammatical-errors are re­ would attend our labors, A poor, iincontroled peated time after time; the diction is unselectcd; voice, lack of breath control and tone place­ the same words are said many times dtiring a ment, Straining of the vocal cords produce hoarse­ few sentences. Such matters may seem trivial, ness, and tend to increase nervousness. It is Said but they become the mast weighty when deliver­ 1 the power of VVhitefield's preaching was due large­ ing the message of the Almighty. The English ly to his mighty voice. He has been heard dis­ of the pulpit should be powerful. Grammatical tinctively speaking a mile away.- Spurgeon could errors should bo eliminated. The diction should speak easily to an audience of twenty thou­ be carefully guarded, the vocahularly wisely se­ sand. .It is not always what^anc says, but.how lected, every word'correctly pronounced and dis­ well he is able to say if,- which succeeds in win­ tinctly articulated. The young . minister should ning an audience, ' . - . ■ ’ make a study of Isaiah, His are the most ora­ The conversational tone is the natural preach* torical and eloquent addresses o f the ages. The ing method. O ne; authority on public speaking speeches o f Dcmonsthencs, the orations of Cicero, states that many’’ a preacher thinks that he is (he addresses o f Webster and Calhoun, or the not in the'Spirit unless he be hollowing, yelling to sermons of Talmage and Whitefield, are incom­ the top ol his voice. The conversational style of parable, to the .prophecies of Isaiah. It is well for address is the natural on?, and the one which the 'minister to purchase new books on diction, is the most attractive to the. audience. This of the style of public address, thesaureses of .dic­ coursc must be raised to a higher pitch, to a' tion and vocabulary. The reading of the best

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authors wilt also develop the English ol the min­ , country. His own city grew from a suburban ister. town over the river from Now Yfirk to a Much else remains to be said concerning the large city approaching a million population, bring­ delivery ol the sermon but one other remark will ing a multitude to his neighborhood .who would suffice: After the sermon is delivered, what then . naturally be inclined to jairi his church. The is its:fate? Is it la be Jorgqltcn? Or to be great Civil War came on, preceded by the anti­ carefully outlined and filed away for future ref­ slavery conflict, and followed by the ora of great erence?' Is it to be accurately written out and moral reforms. thus filed? Or what shall become of it? Let them all. be.carefully outlined and filed away. Let All the United States had a marvelous increase the best of these outlines be submitted to sonic in population, from less than 22,000,000 to over homiletic magazine, suVh as those mentioned 76,000,000. There was a corresponding expan­ above, for publication. Who knows but your sion of our literary and. ^religious institutions, sermon outlines may be o{ greater value than during his pastorate, which it bewilders the mind many of those printed? Then if time allows to ’Contemplate. It was enough to inflame any all can well be written, tabulated, anti filed lot thoughtful minister with intense enthusiasm, in future revision and use. The best of these might some line of .moral effort to advance the king­ well be submitted also to some magazine for dom of Christ! But the cyclopxdia tetls us that publication. I am certain that' we all have .Dr, R, S- Storrs . lived through it all, a calm, read worse sermons than some of your best. > "quiet, uneventful life,” steadily nursing and in­ In conclusion, let us remember that we are creasing his reputation as a polished pulpit orator, mouthpieces of God, delivering a sacred message which was his ruling ambition from the beginning to immortal souls, and that the best of our of his ministeral career. preparation and ability is demanded in this In 18-18 he joined with others to found a relig­ tremendous undertaking. ious paper then callcd The Independent,-, which ■ ,—.—i__— :— ______was destined to wield a vast influence on the GREAT PREACHERS THAT I HAVE religious thought and life of the times, Mr. KNOWN Storrs was one of the board of editors until 1861. By A. M. Hili-s ,He was quiet enough during the vta’r, though his No. 9. Richard Salter Storrs sympathies were on the Union side. In 1869 he FOUND nothing in the rity library'from his tfame out with a great oration on Lincoln! He pen, and no account of any biography. From might have been • four years coining brilliant Various cyclopedias I gathered the following: phrases to adorn it, for ought anyone knows. In He was borri in Braintree, Mass., in 1321-anddied 187$ he came before the. public with an address In Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1900. He graduated on "The Conditions of Preaching with. Success from Amherst in 1839,. at the' age of eighteen. Without Notes.” In 1880 he appeared before the .He studied law under the famous Rufus Choate public with another oration on “ John Wycliffe of Boston, but did not practice law. . He probably .and the First English Bible!" learned that the Icfeal profession was not suited ■ Four years later he came before the people to his taste and temperament; so he went to with An address, or a series of addresses, on Andover Theological Seminary and studied un- ."The Divine Origin of Christianity Indicated ■ dcr that famous tcachcr, Dr. Edwards A. Park, by Its Historic Effects” (1884). Latef in the S new school Calvinist, approaching ctoscly to Ar- same year an. address of his was published on minianism. He graduated from Andover Semi­ ‘‘Manliness in the Scholar.” Two years later nary in 1845 and was minister of Harvard Con­ (1886) an address was delivered and published .on gregational church one year. He then began ' “ Forty Years of Pastoral Life.” In 1890 he in 1846 his pastorate with th e. Church of the delivered an oration on “The Puritan Spirit." In ’ Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N ew , York, which was in 1892 appeared n ^fri£i=, of his lectures on “ Ber­ many, respects very remarkable, if not absolutely nard of Ctairvaux.” tmequaicd. . He was pastor or pastor-emeritus of This apparently, secured his election as Presi­ that one. Congregational church fifty-four years, dent of The American Historical Association. until his death in iooo. . Some of his orations and addresses were pub­ I t . was a period of, wonderful advancement lished in a volume-after his death, which had .and great changes in. the development of this been previously published, ‘ THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 361 ,

, ’ Now it-will be seen from this how little he had remotest kin to it. He; was -always-; dignified added to the literature ot his age, when wc reflect without being stilted, -and -always:refined >with- that for fifty-four years he was pastor of a . out being pedantic, He was the scholar among leading church at the civic center of the United orators, and an orator to scholars. States,, and was widely proclaimed as the Chry­ He evoked admiration rather than enthusiasm, sostom of the American' pulpit, a reputation and, won conviction less by his appeal to this rea­ he haft given his life to win. son 'on the one hand,, or to the emotions on Like Albert Bushncll, all but one year of his the other, than by presentation of the truth ministerial life had been spent in one parish. in forms- of beauty. He possessed that con­ Unlike Dr.. Bushncll, he wrought-aU with his servative1 temperament which adheres : lo a voice, Unlike Mr. Beecher, he. wrought all in taste, a habit, or a conviction; because change the church; not on the public platform. He pub­ is constitutionally unnatural, lished no sermons and contributed little ■ to lit­ ■ He never adopted modern methods, or appli­ erature except the publication of 'his few show ances, in his work, ho type writer, or shorthand orations, ■ reporter, or private secretary. He. would. )iave ■ As an orator, he belonged. to the, old school regarded an Institutional church with a dis­ of elaborate illustration, splendid diction and LaV taste, with the same abhorrence that he would' inized style. . He hail trained himself in models have regarded an infelicitous phrase, The same , furnished by such orators as Burke and Chatham; temperament caused him to'devotc his extra ef- and from his early models he never departed. His forts, aside' from preaching or preparing ser­ oratoty was of the kind popularly known as Cic- mons, to history and historic characters, rather ' eranian. In an address to theological studenti, . than to any . great questions of the hour. he warned them against the use of cheap and No American author sq nearly resembled Lord common words, with a diction '■ gathered from Macaulay, in the range and accuracy of his the. newspapers. "You want,” , he said, “ a dic­ historical knowledge, and in the ready us? of tion whose . every word is ■ full freighted with it for illustration as Dr. Richard Storrs, ,suggestion, beauty and poivcr. When these richer, remoter words-come into the discoyrse they make The same temperament made him conservative it ample and royal. .They are like glistening in theology. ‘ From the theology imbibed in the; threads of-gold interwoven with, the commoner theological seminary, he never departed. He tissues. There is a certain spell in them for • seemed lo think that whatever Dr. Edwards A- . the memory and the imagination. Elect hearers Park believed and taught was quite.good enough . will be warned and won by them,” ■ : ’ /or. him, and could be accepted and safely swal­ lowed,’ with no question as to following indi­ This characteristic counsel interprets the man. gestion. He held to the inspiration of the' Bible;' He always had the elect; hearer in his mind. His oratory was educative. It made hearers He . was a great admirer of Horace Bush* ’ "elect.1’ But his splendid diction, his opulent il­ pell, who never was sound on the atonement. He lustration, his iridescent- iteration required the nctcd as a peacemaker and not as a partisan be­ presence of the polished orator, to give the em­ tween the radical and conservative wings on the broidered products of his mental loom their mission fields. He denounced-sin and preached ... designed effect. His speeches were oratory, and righteousness, but took no part in the hollneM , ^ won his griaitest works. “The Divine Origin o f ' movement. H t belonged to the conservative 7 | Christianity,’’ and "Bernard of Clairvaui," must wing of the anti-slavery party. During the war/ I be read not as philosophy'or history, but the he supported the Union, and after the war he- one as a philosophical, and the other as a his­ dropped the whole subject. I torical illustration. He' rarely .made .a brief After, the war came up the great moral reform i speech. His style was the antipodes of the dra- , movements. The giant saloon evil had to -be .matic. He could write a book more easily dealt with, or it would bring on a worse servi­ than an' article, and an article was easier than ■ tude than human slavery. But in those great a paragraph. He sometimes adopted the con­ state struggles .to gain'amendments to the state versational tone in. his addresses, but he never constitutions outlawing the liquor (raffle, the fell into colloquialisms. He never spoke dow n. breweries and the. distilleries and all the accursed to his audiences, never introduced slang, or the saloons that were destroying our sons and daugb- ; 'v. v.; («) 362 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE

tcre, I ■ never heard or read -a word from his ferent. Dr. Storrs lived in the past, modded his > tongue or pent He was evidently too .busy hunt­ oratory after classic patterns, wrote orations ing up some new word to enrich his vocabulary, about past heroes,. and past conflicts. Beecher or inventing some new phrase to further em­ was a man ,of the living present, a warrior every bellish his polished diction to trouble his majcs; inch of him, with drawn sword, on the firing tic intellect with, such insigni feint trifles as line, where the battle was hottest and fiercest, national viccs, or consuming ulccrs on the body- fighting ’ for the ■ nation, liberty, humanity and politic I God. He was not nursing his reputation- for - The basis of Dr. Storrs’ oratory was splendor oratory, or hunting for rare adjectives. Men o f . diction, wealth of historic illustration, fault­ might say what they pleased of the verbal weapons less finish, and a scholar’s impeccable refine­ he used. He was so hot in pursuit of the foes ment. The basis ofBeecher's.' oratory was the of truth and virtue and God that he seized any­ natural conversation of a man full of great thing that came to hand, slaying Philistines even thoughts and great feelings, sometimes rising with, the jaw-bone of an ass. Storrs, by busying' •into passionate and irresistible eloquence, and himself with past'heroes and past conflicts, could never , twice alike! ■ . keep calm and sWcet and at peace vyith all pep-, A more extended comparison can he drawn pie on all sides of all questions in the present, even between these two great men.. Dr. Storrs was with tlic devil himself, as long as he was well- in Brooklyn first and had some years the start- behaved and sfiitkc in flawless English! But of Rcccher. If such faultless oratory and polished Beecher lived no«> ami had a genius for letting diction were the better tool to use in the pulpit to people know on which side he'wns on the moral reach _|hc people and win soiils then Dr, Storrs issues of the hoiir-—>a veritable white-plumed ought to have surpassed all others, and quite Achilles lending the warring hosts, and so dreaded cclipsed Ilccchcr and.. Talmage. Hut did he? iii battle' that in his own country a price was Beccher’s^hurch was, with the folding-seat fas­ tened to the end.of each pew, in seating capa­ put on his head; and in England a cart-load of city about twice as large as the Church of t}ic stones, and brick-bats were carried to a public Pilgrims. . But Ilccchcr packed his house to tlic hall by a howling mob to kill'him ! Some dif- . limit continually; while Dr. Storrs' church was ~ fercncc between the fundamental traits of these never crowded.- The l^ t time 1 heard Dr. Storrs, men I on a' fair Sabbath morning, under unusually fav- They were .members of the same denomina­ qrable circumstanccs for the speaker, I critically tion in the same city, contemporaries, in proximity studied the. audience as was my custom, and cal­ to each other, on terms of loving fellowship culated that there were not more than eight for many years. But men so entirely different, hundred and fifty people present. The-last time and in n way rivals, might be expected some I went to hear Beecher, the xjiurch, holding three day to have a rid In their friendship, It camc thousand was packed tpLw M dbors within ten in the hour of Beecher's sorrow. But the church minutes after, t h u g u j f l l p p c d ; and the news­ councils, and the great,American public stood with. paper reporteU P^H B H iom ing that there were Beecher to the last, 'His church vastly ouslripped ten thousand pcopffJPrthe streets wanting to the other in membership, and especially grew, gain admission - and couldn't !' when Ihc brother pastor was opposing him. Dr. As to the theology of these two men, Dr. Storrs Storrs had unfortunately taken sides at . last I -. , was changeless, accepting what his teacher taught I have written on the character of this famous him without a question, as if he was supremely preacher with a purpose. Tltcrt^ is more than ■ satisfied that Ire had it all tte plus ultra, and one way lo get a great name and tjie applause there was nothing more beyond; which was en­ of men. If any of the readers of this Magazine ■ tirely a mistake.; arc ambitious to p in the praise of the world, to But Mtr. Beecher was too thoughtful and in-' he the pride and darling of .an elect few, who will qubitive and independent-to let anyone, even his listen with delight to your honeyed .speech In own eminent father, think, for him; and lie had praise of men who wrought more than half a ' too much spirit of youth and health to become millennium before: you were born, but do not a fossil and refuse to expand and grow, llic'm en­ wish to. hear the clarion call to present conflict tal attitude of the two men was entirely dif­ with ihc powers of darkness; and If-you wish to t THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE . . 363

have a long, quiet) uneventful pastorate, over have never known'him tolead any great revival an elect, ' mutual seif-adnpiration society, who > or any moral reform movement in our' driy.” will admin: your charming eloquence, and ap­ That is all that resulted front his polished dic­ plause your delightful personality for a half-cen­ tion and rare words, and exalted style I His was tury, then Dr. Richard Salter Storrs is your- “not the method of Jesus,1 Jfe used the speech model. Go to it. You pay the price, and if you of everyday life, "and the common people heard him gladly I" Preacher, you can bid for ■ the are skilful enough, you will get the goods. elect few, or you can go for the masses. When he was just starting in the ministry, 'Moody was a contemporary of Dr,. Storrs and someone suggested to him that 'he would be more he probably won more souls in a single month useful if he used simpler language. He promptly by his homely speech than Dr. Storrs did in all replied, that he would not.do it; he was culti­ his long life of seventy-nine years! ■ vating a style to reach the upper classes; he could Preachers make their choice, and they must- not afford to condcscend to the use of common abide by the result I "They that turn many to spcech 1 righteousness shall shine as the stars forever Finney said, ^“ 1 have watched his carter; I ■ and ever!” (Dan. 12:3).

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THE SABBATH IN SCRIPTURE AND Jews there seems to have existed a sympathetic .•> HISTORY understanding of the spiritual value of k«plng, , ‘ liy Horace G. Cowan v the. commandments, as in the. case of the rich X . Jcsui and the Commandment* young , ruler, and q f’ the lawyer who asked HE keeping of . the Ten Commandments which commandment was the greatest. But the as given in the law proclaimed from Sinai scribcs and Pharisees were the subjects of se­ T was an essential part of the Jewish, re­ vere censure by the Lord, because of their substi­ ligion, and it followed that the morality of t h e 1 tution of the traditions of the elders for the Jews was superior to'that of any Gentile nation. law of God. ■ . ■■ - That there were lapses fft>m the observance of. .' Between Jesus and the Pharisees there arose a the moral law is all too evident from the Scrip- ' conflict over the question of washing the hands turcs, but the general high level of Jewish life befure eating (Matt. 15:1-20; Mark 7:1-23), and manners was maintained, by the strict keep:_ not as a question, of cleanliness or of table man­ ing of the commandments. ‘ ners, but as a religious ordinance and an exerrial In the days of our Lord's earthly ministry, purity, based on-'tradition rather than the ljiw. wljen the nation, had been .purged of idolatry The Jews had an oral tradition which the rabbis through prophetic teaching, the experiences of claimed was given to Moses at Sinai, and handed th^ exile, and the bloody sacrifice of the Macca- down from Mosc3 through Joshua and the proph­ ■ begn revolt; when the name of Jehovah was . ets to the rabbis, after, the cessation of prophecy, hctfi so sacred that it must npt be' pronounced; who taught it to their dlsciptes, for the interpre­ whpn the Sabbath was sacredly observed in every1 tation of the written law. “ But traditionalism "V ph^se of Jewish. individual and social life; and. went further, and placed ih'e oral actually above whfn all the people were diligently instructed in the written law. . . . This is the more noticeable, the law from childhood, the keeping of the com­ since, as we know, the ordinances of the .scribes mandments was so ingrained in the consciousness were' declared-more precious, and of more bind­ *und expressed in the life of ‘ the Jewish people ing importance than those of Holy Scripture it-- that it was of the very essence of Judaism. .Be­ self” (ii/e and Times of Jesus the Messiah, by tween Jesus and some' of. the more intelligent R ev; Alfred E debsueim , D , D ,) t ' ■■■ ' ' i - (U ) 364 THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE

As embodied in the Mishmth and the Talmud, all these things come from within, and defile which Wire cotfiniiUcdlo writing in the period Ihc man.” . ' > fromslthevaccoiid tO‘.Uie.'r.sifth .tenlury . AdP .t: the . .^.The contrast between tbe_teaching, of-Jesus and oral law presents a confusing mass of legal-or­ the rabbis is further exhibited • by Hi3 utteran«s dinances and 'precepts by which the; religious in the Sermon on the Mount: “ Yc have heard Life of the Jewish people was made a burden, /that it hath been said by them of old, Thou and the tradition became “ a yoke which neither ( shalt (lot kill; arid .whosoever shall kill shall be our fathers -nor wc were able to bear" (Acts in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, ‘ IS: 10), as St, Peter said of the law in the coun­ That, whosoever is angry'with his brbther with-: cil at Jerusalem. And Jesus characterized the out a cause shall be. in danger of the judgment: use of the oral law as, “ Laying aside the * com­ and whosoever shall' say to his brother, Raca mandment o f God, yc hold the tradition oi men. [vain, senseless fellow], shall be in danger of the . , , Making the \vnird of God of none effect council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool,', through your, tradition" (Mark 7: 8, 13), ' shall be in danger of hell fire. . . , Yc have heard that jl was said by them of old time, Thou .shall This was illustrated By their interpretation of not commit adultery: But I say unto' you, That vthe fifth commandment, “ Honour thy father and whosoever look’eth on a woman to lust "after her, thy mother: that thy days may . be long upon hath committed adultery with her already in his the land which the Lord thy God giveth 'thee,", heart.” ..' V .. : iri connection with which Jesus quoted the M o­ jesus’ standard of keeping the commandments saic penalty, "And he that cursetli his father, or is, therefore, not merely outward avoicfancc of -his mother, shall surety be put to death", (Ex. sin, or external washings from filth, but a clean 21:17). The rabbis had '.taught that if a'.man heart, The inward impulse toward sin must be gave that which should have gone to the sup-' eradicated and replaced by that which is pure port

lest they ciush out some seed', which would be' Previous.to this Jesus,had been nsked by a a kind ol tieshing, or from carrying a burden of lawyer, templ'ng; him, “ Master, .which is the the weight, o f'a dried fig: but as it was given great commandment in the law?"

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STUDIES IN THE SERMON ON THE The evil of all this was recognucd, but know­ MOUNT ledge and practice were sometimes far apart. As By Olive M. Winchester ihc days pass on, even the prop lit is fell a prey to this sin, and Jeremiah laments "the" horrible New Standai-d* of RijhtcouintK ' thing," that he has seen even. in the prophets New Interpretation of the Social Evi[ and of Jerusalem. Divorce Passing from the Old Testament lo the New, ’ ' Matt. 5:27-37 we see the same evil manifesting itself. There After having given new content lo .the Jaw was the .sinful'U’dman. who surreptiliously crept of murder in setting forth new ideals of right- into the house ol Simon the Pharisee when he cousncss, Jesus considers the question ol the so­ was entertaining Jesus. Then agDir, wc have the cial^ evil. The social outcast has been . a per- !■ woman who stood face to face with her accusers ennial figure in all ages and countries, and ap-. who would inflict the penalty of death as pre­ peared also in Israel. Not only has there been scribed in the law of Moses, in d the searching the social outcast, but also there has been the command given by Jesus which' made them al) Social evil which included in its reign more than slink ■ away. Here' wc see the social outcast, thepublic social outcast. the public odium in which she stood, but also In the Old Testament wc have suggestions of see that the social sin extended far. beyond the a. very datk moral background. In Proverbs, wc so-called, social outcast, , have a description o f the snares taid in the path 'But in all the cases cited above, guilt was only of the unwary and the end thereof. The ad­ impugned by public sentiment to the actual of­ monition is given: fender, to Ihc open act o f sin. Jesus, however, in "Let not thy heart decline to her ivaysr. the passage of Scripture under consideration ex­ , Go not astray in her paths. tends the range of guilt as He did in the case, of . For she hath, cast down many wounded: murder. It includes not only the act but also the ■ Yea,' all her-slain arc a mighty host. sinful desire, the evil eye or look. Her house is the way of Sheol, .Going down to the chambers of death." A moral breakdown as well as a moral trans- .: : . (Proverbs 7:24-27). ■ formation docs noi occur in.vacuo. There is at- days a background. The open act o( sin may Job ako {£ts fotth a very graphic desenption come as a sudden ’moral catastrophe, but back/ of the times. He recounts those that “ rebel of this there Jias ever been the insidious working against light; they know not the way thereof, of evil, hidden from view, but silently and surely nor abide in the paths thereof.,J First among destroying the moral fiber am} corrupting the these stands'the murderer, .and second, he who violates social sanctity.. The activities of this heart of man. Accordingly when., Jesus would class are- realistically set forth; they disguise pronounce judgment upon, the 1 social evil, He themselves, and included not only the open transgression, but also the rising of desire in the heart of man, and the “ In the dark they dig through houses: expression, of that desire in a longing look. They shut themselves up in the daytime: • They know not the light. Sin accordingly lies deeper than the act. “ There For the morning is to all of them as thick are,” says Augustine, “ three things whereby sin is darkness: accomplished; suggestion, delight and consent.” For they know the terrors of thick darkness." "First,” says Thomas, a Kempis, “ there occurs to the mind simple thought, next strong imagination, •'Swiftly they pass away upon the face of ■ the waters: . afterwards delight and wicked Impulse and as­ Their portion is cursed in the earth.” sents (Quoted from Smith). In the simple , (Job 24::lJff). thought or suggestion to the mind there is no THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 36^

sin, but wben the mind assents thereto and finds general purposes, there would seem to -be only delight therein, then has sin found lodgment.' otic text that might be.used, that is, vs. 29, 30, Since a!! suggestions to s io come to the Indivl- ^ theme might be, essentials of this life, if need hei dual through ^thc channels of the senses, then, if musl be sacrificed for the life to come. The di- there is no possibility ol controlling these cn- visions might consider, first, how essential the right tranccs to the mind, that is, eyc-gate and car- *>’c and l'lc r'Eht hand are to living, second, the gate, as Buiiyan puts it, also other avenues, then exhortation to part even with these if need be, it would be better that these be destroyed a!- ; and third, the reason, for so doing, that the whole together.. This then' would seem to be the pur- hody might, not go into hell..’ port of the exhortation in vs. 29, 30. “And if j ------— '— — thy right eye cnuseth thee to stumble, pluck it God ET»rjrj*her« , out, and cast it from, thee; for it is profitable Men have .said, "There, is no God." for thee that one of thy members should per­ Yet look at the'rose, ish, and not thy whole body be cast into ^cH. Look at the robin in his Vowcri And if thy right band causeth thee to stumble, Smell the scent in the heart of a flower.. cut it off, and cast it from thiec-,ior it is profit­ : Can mcii make those? able ‘for thee that, one of thy members should • Cb perish, and not thy whole body go. into hell. Men have said, “ There Is no God.", (R. V.) ' The word used here for offend, properly - Who. has kissed a baby’s lips? has the idea of ensnafe, so then !h e , thought Who has looked in love’s bright eyes?. • -should be,.‘‘Whateverit be that ensnares us even Whp has seen the sunset skies? . v the right hand or the right eye, must be sac­ What love gave this? rificed” (Smith). Closely allied to the social evil, and more or What man can do tiie tilings of God less concommltanl; with it is the prevalence of Al -That all His works, declare? divorcc. In that day like our own, divorcc was Carve the mountalns-^paint the sky, obtained with considerable ease. There were,. - Color the wings of the butterfly, however, differences of opinion in the two lead- We scp God everywh'cre. ittg. Rabbinical school. According to the stricter —J. Benedict school, tbft of Rabbi Shamtnai, divorre was per­ missible for oriljr one cause, but according to the ~ ' ’ ” more liberal school it .was allowable for various Poetic Gem* to Grniiih Sermon* reasons. In dealing with Ibis outstanding evil, we find By Thee my sou! is held! as in the judgment pronounced upon: the foregoing By all Gethsemanc's agony and grief . Sin, there is no uncertainty in the admonition United, joined, and naught can break the weld given by Jesus. He recalls the ease with which But my own want of faith—my unbelief. divorce may be obtained, and then gives the —S. T. Clark. injunction that there is only one legitimate cause of divorce. Moreover He indicates what will be the Could any sin survive and be forgiven, ■ > resultant consequences'where divorce is permitted One sinful wish would make a hell of heaven. on any' other cause. In the lax and loose morals . —H aRTIEY CotMlDCE. of that day, the standards thus set forth held up a high moral idealism, a morat idealism of such Manlike Is it to fal! into sin, a nature that its source could not be .otherwise Fietidlike is it to dwell therein, than'divine. Christlike is it for sin to grieve, ' In serraonic material, this section like the pre­ .Godlike is it all sm to leave. . ceding, is not particularly fruitful. If. one: were — Friedrich v o n L ooan . going to gifre an address on the social evffs o f our day, then a text could be easily found here, a Man's forgiveness may be true and sweet, text which would make-the evil culpable in man But yet he stoops to give it. More complete or in woman, in act or desires. Again, if one were Is love that lays forgiveness at thy feet, , . to give an address on the current trend in divorce And pleads with thee to raise it. and its sin, a text might be found here. But for- —iAdeubus Pnocros. .(IS) 368 '■ THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE 'i - • ' HINTS TO FISHERMEN ' “ By C. E. C ornell , h------— ■-! '■ ■■■-= . " ...... ■ - ■ ■ — —r-!>

M r. Preacher, Hang? Up Youi- One-Strins The best preachcr is not n specialist on iny one i Fiddle • subject, but the man who speaks out boldly and Don't, piny. on your one-string fiddle too long. Constantly on the theme he finds in his Bible and If you hang ori to one thing too long it is likely to who is in scope as welt as in contcnt—-“a Hi We become monotonous, and you arc apt to be preachcr.” Such a preacher .is also a soul winner classed as a lopsided prcacher, Strive to preach atlll ** aWc to rejoice in the fruitage that God ■ a well-rounded gospel. There are preachers who 8>vea him.—C. E. C. seem incapabic of maintaining a balanced min- . ~ istry, They get hold o f a Ihemc, and ride it to The Potted Preacher ■ , . death. Their theme may change now and then Dr. James Moffatt,. D, D „ writing ' in- the through the coirsc of their lives, but whatever, Record of Chrhlian Work, has this to say: < : their themeyou can count on there being "just one, “Flattery is one of the subtle temptations of If they get interested in prophecy like the book a,i Christian life. I am afraid we all like praise, of Daniel or Revelation, they seem to become cvcn whcn 5t conlcs from the uncritical. W c are thoroughly saturated with these two^reat books • not dt^ oscd to critkize lJj0SC who offer us ap- of the Bible, and tfiey preach a series o f ser- probation. We criticize acutely those who differ mons, and quite often intimate all the time that fro“ us> but whcn il io th. of course, a loss in moial “ missing the heart of the gospel," “they lack spiritual insight." Then another set of preachers J have heard Dr. Denny in Glasgow addressing think that they must preach agkinst modernism, divinity students who were leaving our college and they dish up to thefr people modernism Jor f°r the ministry, and one of the sharp things he breakfast, dinner and supper. . said to them for their good was this—he tfften After preaching sermon after s^mon with sP°'ie to them about the fast chaptcr o f John's about the same line of thought, they then strike Gospel> “Fecd m>' shwP’" the pastoral care o r a “ The Second Coming," then it is “ Second Com- co n g re g a tio n -"^ * ," he said, “ don ot become the : ing” until the theme is threadbare and a fit sub- pet lamb of your congregation I" ject (or superannuation, . There are some ministers who become the . Some of the brethren have “ divine hf>a!ing" so Pet lambs. of their congregations, They have a interwoven into their system, that it crops out, nice time/ They ate fondled and Petted: " Fecd in nearly every sermon. These subjects are im- roy s*,eep' Wc to shepherds ahd take portant and ought to be preached about, but . w^ere we know they ought to go, hot not to the exclusion of that most important they Ihink they ought to go, , subject the gospel,of the Son of God, A writer From the highest motives' iiicn may seek to says an investigation wfill show - you that the avoid differing from- the opinions of a congre- prcachers who are preaching the simple gospel, gition, and so fail to give the^, moral leadership Sabbath after Sabbath and who do not allow and awakening and stirring of their con- themselves to be side-tracked are the- preachers sciences.. who ate gaining and holding the people. The —~ gospel of salvation for all men is still a drawing A Mile mid a. Half from Church power. This suggestive bit o f vers^ by G e o ^ C. Degan Search for the outstanding preacher Jo every in (he Evangelical Messenger has a good deal o f ■■ -city.'regardless of his denominational affiliation up-to-date, application In it. '* and he is a man of evangdical faith who preaches a well-rounded gospel and who specializes on We’re a mile and a half from church, you know, Bible themes. • And it rains today,' so w t can’t go. ■■ .■ * '■ , : - f i 6)’ THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 369

We'd ko ten miles to a.'dance tar a show . , and Philadelphia and Laodkea and Pergamos -Though the rain should fail and the winds should and Thyatira, the city of Lydia the seller of pur- blow. ; (. ' ■ > ■plc, St. Iohn, you know, in his later life settled But the church is different, we’d have you know,. down as bishop in Ephesus,’ so you will under-, That's why when it rains wc just can't go. stand why these churches were in his mind as he But ive always go to things wc like wrote ‘So the' angel of the church in Sardis,1 ‘to iiAnd wc tide if we-.can; if we can't we'll hike. the angel of the church in. Thyatira,’ and so1 — C. E C. on. These with Ephesus arc the seven churches founded most probably during this mission by • . . . A Religioui Impulie U Strong Today Paul and his companions.' Ephesus, has a high There was one' striking feature about the -inter­ claim on our attention, if only for these churches. national ceremonies at the dedication of the peace And Ephesus'has a slili higher claim on our at­ bridge between the United, States and Canada tention as; giving us fifty years later the Gospel at Buffalo. This was the religious, flavor which of St. John. Pity someone couid not tell.to Paul pervaded the- occasion. The program opphed by on that lonely day of his entry, what Ephesus the singing of the Donology. / ‘Praise God from would afterward mean to the Church o f God. - whom all blessings flow.” What more fitting “ It did not look much iikc it that day. Ephesus at the dedication of a great.peace memorial! For was one of the greatest strongholds of paganism. the Founder of'th e Christian religion' is called Its- fame rested chicfiy an its magnificent temple the Prince ot Peace. i. of .Diana, one of the seven wonders of the world. The invocation was pronounced by a . Jewish The .suii, it was said,, saw nothing In his course rabbi, ■ This had a Rouble significance—the sig­ more glorious than the temple of Diana at Ephe­ nificance, first, that English-speaking peoples rec­ sus. The whole province o f Asia contributed to iti ognize God in public and private affairs; And erection, AH'the Greek cities around were en-, the, significance, secondly, that English-speaking thusiastic about it. It was the great rallying nations and peoples preach and practice tolerance point of heathenism. You can see it depicted in religion. • on the Ephesus coins in the British Museum to- ' Tt was fitting,, too, that the exercises should day. with its ugly black idol that fell down from close with the repeating, in concert, of the Lord's Jupiter, The Ephesians were inordinately proud .Prayer. of their black idol and of the fame of their city Britain, Canada,;.America, all speaking a com- as . the temple-keeper pf Diana.' ■' ' inon tongue, sang praises to God, listened rever­ "This worship of Diana made Ephesus the cen­ ently to an invocation to God and repeated in ter of. magic and sorcery, .There the professors of concert the mode! prayer to God. Thcy^praise the black' art practiced their incantations Openly, and worship the same God, in the same tongue, They could raise the devil, they could frighten along'the Connecticut alohg the Potomac, along the.wits—and the money—out of their crcdulous the Mississippi, along the > Colorado and along votaries, calling up evil .spirits, principalities and the Columbia.-. Princcs and commoner, President powers and rulers of darkness. You remember and private citizen, worship at the same shrine how Paul thinks of it . in his-letter to these and acclaim the same God.—Editorial Pasadena Ephesians. ‘We wrestle not With flesh and blood Star-lfews. . but against principalities and powers , and the rulers of darkness and the spiritual hosts of wick­ Ephetu* in tho Tima of St. Paul edness in high'places.’ * J, Patterson Smyth, B.. D., LL. D., Lilt. D., "Think of a pool- missionary facing that abode D. C. L-, in his charming book, “ The Story ,of of Satan with nothing but' hts improbable little St. Paul's Life and Letters" gives, this striking story of Jesus and his little.: service o f Bread: picture of the city of Ephesus when St. Paul first and Wine—to win for his' Lord a' vast pagan visited it. city of half a million souls i Surely Christ must “ It.was most important for the church to get havd been very real to him when he could dare to a footing in Ephesus, a great central city with attempt such an enterprise as that. Surely Paul, its fine Roman roads branching out in every di­ if. he were not the wildest of dreamers, must have rection. In its district lay the fix towns whose had a tremendous faith in the presence and power names' are so familiar now through thq. Book of the eternal Son of God. If we had even a of the Revelation of St. John, Sardis and Smyrna tithe of his faith today we too should turn the 370 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE ■ \ world upside down In our. enthusiasm. That answered, “ Gentlemen, niy name is'all I .have Son of God is just as real and as elose and as pow­ left, and that is not for sale," erful today. But, alas! wc do not turn the' world upside down for. Hirji.' ■ Fools that we arc, Don't Crucify, Him and slow of heart, to believe 1 Lord increase our " The eight-year-old son of Rev. Air, Gaston, of faith 1” Iowa, heard his father read from the Bible,."Take ■ , .. % him away a ml crucify him, for I find no.fault in SELECTED ILLUSTRATIONS WITH him." ■ i ■ PITH AND POINT "Father,” he said, “ that doesn’t, read right. It , A Millionaire’* Advice Concerning Liquor ought to be, 'Take him away and don’t crucify him, for I find no. fault in him,’ " ■ ' “ The curse of drink is the cause of . more . The children and the childlike always welcomed failures in life than anything else. You can sur­ Him. They would never have crucified-Him, mount every other faulty habit, but the man who is a confirmed drinker, has not one chance in a million of succtfss in life," said Andrew Carnegie The Birthplace of Chrint at one time in addressing the evening classes of When Joseph and Mary-tried to get a night's- Pratt Institute^ Brooklyn, at their commencement ludging in the “ City of David, which is called exercises. Bethlehem" 1927 years ago they found no ac­ commodations available but an innkeeper said "Liquor will conquer you, a million chances to. they might occupy his stable -overnight, It was one, if once you give it sway, 1 knew the late that , night the “ three wise men"' followed the General Grant well, -At one time he was told by - star of Bethlehem to where the “ young child a friend th&t he was drinking too much and that lay." For Jcius was born in a manger in the in- • it was being noticed. 'Very well, then,’ said keeper’s stable and the birthplace of the Savior Grant, ‘I'll drink no more.’ I have sat at many a was later to become a shrine. dinner table with him and always hia wine glass In 330 the emperor Constantine, a Christian, was turned down.' But the General Grant stamp constructed a church over the holy spot and the of men is not often met with,' stable was transformed into a grotto,. where "D o .n o t be content with merely doing your Christians might worship. ■ Later additions to the duty. Always do a little more, and the wise em­ edifice were made by the emperor Justinian: The ployer will sooner or later promote you.. If-your Church of the Nativity, as it is cnllcd, is prob­ employer is not wise, keep looking around. Some 1 ably one o f tiie oldest Christian churches in cxis- employers have the reputation of pfomoting their tence. There every Christmas eve at midnight men and making millionaires of them. That’s high mass i^ celebrated by. the Greek patriarch. the kind of employer you want." In the grotto the spot where Jesus is said to have been bom is marked by a silver star set, The W ay of the Trnh*gre*»or in the marble floor. Pilgrims go there >to kiss Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, while conversing with the Star. About the room arc tokens made of a convict in a. Western’ penitentiary, showed him gold and silver and set with brilliant gems. From a card on which was the text, “ The way of the solid gold thuribles comes the scent of perfume transgressor is liard." “ Is that true?" asked the and waxen tapers glowing in tall candlesticks evangelist. furnish' the ‘dim light. An armed British guard With-a flush the convict- replied, "O sir, it is is on duty at all-times. true, but it is not the worst part of it.” . Bethlehem today has some 7500 inhabitants, “What is the-worst then?" . . ' mostly Moslems, Thcfc ore some Christians and "Sir, the end—:the end is the Worst 1" was his and a few Jews, Thousands of Jews are traveling sad but stirring reply. to the Holy Land to crcale colonics under the “ Zionist Movement." Millions of dollars have An Uniullied Name been given by Jews in America. One Jewish At a time when money was a pressing necessity banker has dotfitfed over $50,000,000 toward col­ with him General Robert E, Lee was offered $10,- onization work. Palestine, which .is about the., 000 a year for the use of his name in connection size of Vermont, numbers some 80,000 Jews, 84,- with the Louisiana State Lottery. To their glit­ 000 Christiins and 600,000 Mohammedans.— rfte tering proposition the. noble Christian general Pathfinder, ; (18) the preacher’s Magazine ' .371

Bethlehem Aji It Is Today , to - climb to get to Bethlehem. The wise men “Shepherds watching their flocks on the low, had to go down.into*(lie valley and up again be­ sparsely wooded lulls above the. village of Beth­ fore they knelt by a cradlc. ' lehem, much as certain Sther shepherds watched "It has not .changed very much. Though rav­ their flocks 2,000 years ago, ,saw travelling car aged by the Arabs as the Crusaders, advanced, R after travelling car sweep arolind the curves of. has not suffered like Jerusalem. Originally It the hills, bringing reverent visitors to the Basilica was a walled village, but the town has spread over of the Nativity, .built around the grotto where the walls, (so the legend and traditions of the early Churcji . “ Curiously enough, all. through the chequered.'' 'maintain) Christ was born, history of Palestine Bethlehem has remained “ Ancient rites,' carried out with the. stiff, By­ Christian: Two-thirds of the population o f Jeru­ zantine splendor o f the Greek .church, mingled salem is Jewish, half Nazarith is Mohammedan, strangely with the simplicity’ of the worshipping but Bethlehem today is practically wholly Chrisr congregation. • * , tian. The streets arc clean, far more clean than “ Silent English and American women, wrapped ' most Palestinian cities, the houses arc good, and in thick fur: or leathc^ motoring coats against the the folk arc prosperous, They have a reputation chill of the night air,' stood side by side with * for adventure and progress, and many of them . native Christian women from the outlying vil­ migrate-to America, but they come back and. lages, itr their flowing brown robes. build hquses on4the hillside arid end their day at "Arabs and Bedouin^ crowded outside the Bas­ Bethlehem. ' 1 , ilica, .peeping in through the doors and watch­ “ It is about six miles from Jerusalem. You go ing the ceremonies w!t,h greatest interest. ■ out by the Jaffa gate, drop down the steep hill, pass quite near the Garden of Gethsemane, climb “ The slowly-moving procession of. people in again, atid from a well, where they say the wise* their bright colored robes, the men leaning'on men watered the tired camels for (he last time and staffs or their crooks;, and the women leading the saw the star.shining in the water, you look down little children among the animals, made a won-, a valley and up again to Bethlehem. The country derful picture. ■ round is very like high Derbyshire, outcropping "A thousand orphah children, ot every nation­ limestone, clear air and plenty of wind. ality, welcomed, the I’atriarch, singing hymns in “ But Bethlehem is best by night. Two Ameri­ Latin, English, French and Italian, Christian cans and I tramped out to it one night, armed pilgrims from Jerusalem trudged five miles. The _ ' with sticks, for they told us of Bedouin and dogs. whole crowd escorted the Patriarch, to the churth, ■But nothing happened to us, and, from the well where he conducted vespers, in the presence of pil­ on the hill opposite, we sat and looked at the grims from almost every country in the world. little town with its few twinkling lights, and over it a mantle of stars such as I have never: “ I ahvays thought that Bethlehem w'as in a' seen in England. And then came the sound of valley.” ■ . ' . bells, and through the darkness a camel train. One • . ' * * by one the camcls passed, padding softly along t “ 0 little town of Bethlehem, the narrow road going down and up to Bethlehem, Ilow stitt'we see thee lie; , That night will stay in my memory when I am an Above thy deep and dreamless 'sleep old, old man.'— R ev. McEwan L aw son in the The silent stars go by. London ■ Daily News.

“That is how the old hymn runs, apd I fancy Safe in the shelter of Thy love I rest, that, as a youngster, I must have got it into my . And there, by naught disturbed, by naught dis­ head that ■ anything that. lay sleeping must lie tressed, ■ in a bed! But Bethlehem is not in 'a valley. Vainly the world’s wide waves of trouble roar— It stands right-on the top of a tidge'of hills which In vain they surge on sorrow's distant shore. go tumbling away down to the Dead Sea twenty —T. Dwtoin C rane miles off, and, in the clear air, loakmg only five. U is higher than Jerusalem. ( , Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one 1 “ It stands nearly as high as Helvellyn,. The Have Jimits to its mercy: Gad has none. shepherds had to climb to Bethlehem. Herod had —A delaide P roctor. * (19)

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POOR YET RICH III.. M y C overing (His feathers, verse 4). A Christmas Srrmon IV. M y S h ie ld (His truth, verse 4). By J. W . B o s t V. M y K eeper (His angels, verse 11). Text; 2 Cor. 8:9. iNTKODUcronv: Christ’s riches with the Father, THE CRISIS OF THE CROSSROADS condescension to His birth in the manger. ■ ■ ' . By J. Wt B ost ' I. Rich in Faith (James 2:5). T e x t : l Samuel 9:8, 20, “ That will I give II. Rich in Good Works (1 Tim. 6:18), to the man of. God to "tell us.our way.” ’ III. Hidden Riches (Isa. 4S:3). I nt» oductoey: The case and incident stated. IV, A Rich Inheritance (Eph, 1:15-18). I, T he. Place of a P urpose in L if e VI, Rich in Peacef Psalm 37:11). II. T he V alue of G odly C ounsel at th e C rit­ ■VI. Rich “in Heart Comfort-Snd Full Assurance ical P oints of L ife . (Col. 2:2). - HI. T h e D et£Sjiin a t iv e E ffect of a V olitional VII, Shall Receive a Crown (James 1:12; 1 Pet,' E ffort. S:4 ;'Z Tim. 4:8). i. Esau, the pottage am! the birthright (Heb, 12:16, 17). NO FEAR WITH CHRIST 2. Joseph, a lustful pleasure and a pure conscience (Gen. 39:9, 10). fly J. VV, H ost ' 3. Lot’s . choice. . . , __T ex^: Matt, 14:27, “ Be ot good cheer;.It isT; 4. Moses. . , be not afraid." 5. Aaron and the golden calf. , T h e I n flu en ce of C ubist' s P resence U pon a 6 . The three Hebrews, in the fiery furnace. T roubi-eii L if e . - i. Ruth’s choice. , ' I. That presence,dispels fear, b! Judas' choice. ... ' '2. That prckricc inspires joy. ’ 9. Esther’s choice. . , 3. That prescncc secures safety, 10. SI. Paul's choice; The world or the cross, The devil's choice (Rev. 12:7-9).- •------:------1------.H- GOD'S SILENCE MISTAKEN 12. Jcsus and Satan’s propositions and the Father's will; By J. W ,-Bost. T ext: ■ Psalm 50:21. FAITH " I. W h a t S innehs T h in k of G oo By U. T. H ollenback I. That He is ignorant. I. D efin itio n qp F a ith (Ilch. ll;l) 2. That He is forgetful, ' 1. Definition of the definition. 3.: That He is impotent. 2. Not simple,or. naked faith. Worketh by : 4.- That He is untrue. love. . - ■ That He is Indifferent. 5. 3. Not unmarried. Married to .works W h at S inners M ay E xpect fro m Goo II. . (Jas. 2:17). 1. • Reproof, 4. Object of faith in God (1 Pet. 1:9). • 2. Conviction. II. Sources of F a it h . 3. Punishment, 1. Comes by hearing tbe word (Rom. 4. Despair. 10:17). 2. Aided by obedlencc to God (1 Jno. HE THAT DWELLETH IN THE SECRET ■ 3:21). PLACE OF THE LORD 3. Stretched by testing. By j . W. Bost . 4. Increased by practice. L esson ; Psalm 91:1 and Hebrews 10:1-10. III. M easures of F a it ii Test1: Psalm* 91:1. No faith (Deut. 32:20). ; ' I ntroductory: 'the Psalm and its beauty. *—Spiritual stupidity failure to digest the I. M y Lodoiko (The shadow of His wing). , - the: words of Christ (M k. 4 :40). ■ II. M y Habitation (The most High). Misplaced faith (Lu. 8:25). (20) THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE m

Little faith, better than none. ■ / ures dust, takes- up isles, skips hilts, Symptoms: Anxiety about tcmporali- spans heavens. , tics. Judges as a very majesticc judge (Job Causes: Failure. to consider the lily and . 9:3-10). ' - sparrow (Matt. g :'30). .He secs with tbe eyes of Omnipresence. Get mind on possibility of failure Prov. 15:3, “ The eyes of the Lord arc (Matt. 16:8). ’ in every place." Great faith. Centurion (Lu. 7::1-I0). 2 Chron. 16:9, "Eyes o f. the Lord run Syro-Phcenician woman (Matt, 15:25-28) to and fro throughout the whole 1 Man full of faith. In connection with the earth,” ctc. - - . fulness of the Holy-Ghost. Stephen, (Acts He loves like an extravagant lover (John 6:5); Barnabas, Acts 11:24. 3:16). . .. IV. Conclusions , He helps like a friend indeed. Seek to be filled with the Holy Ghost, and "Cast'your care upon him." a knowledge of the \V3ord of God. He pities like an infinite Father, . “ Like as a father piticth his children." He saves as an uttermost Savior. FAITH ■ From all sin all righteousness to all, eter­ ' B y V . T. IIoixl.vimck nity. ; Text: Mark 11:2, Have faith in God, He guides ns an unfailing guide. Introduction: Definitions of faith. He sticks like a great divine'brother, Sources of. faith. ; Keeps secrcts, overlooks infirmities, etc. Measures of faith. . II. FArm Triumphs Over D im c u m z s I. H indrances t o - th e O peration, of F a it h . Paul in shipwreck, Sin. ' III. Faith Attempts. Things t o r . G od Worry. IV. Fattii Com bined B rings K esults ' F ar Hurry. “He that bellevetU shall not make G reater t h a n A lone . haste." Four brpught the paralytic.. Trying to limit faith on the deductions of-’.' 120 stirred the world. human'reason. ' U , P ow er of F a it h . , ' v THE THREE WHATS . Three special instances: By C. E. C ornell Mk. 11:23. .Connected with cursing the T ext: Eph, lflB, 19, ' ■ • fig tree. I. Introduction . •, Matt.' 17:20. Connected with healing The .value and importance of this great the demoniac boy. book. ■ Luke 17:6; Connected with forgiving “One of the most sublime compositions 70 times 7 . ‘ ' " that ever came from the pen of man.”— III. Faith Maari£!> t o her Husdand Action ' —G rotius. Beaks the Nu.mf.kous Family: “ If the reader have a m ark,of regard for Justification (R o n C S :!). the gospel it will blow it into a flame.” Sanctificatloh (Acts‘ 15:8, 9)..-. , . — D r. B loom field, Healing (Jas. S:14). ’‘A powerful combination o f language, and .Revivals, church buildings, missions, par­ sublime in its'sweep of thought.”— M an y sonages, membership increase, church peace,. , Sch olars. souls, provisions, or anything lawful in which JI. A ppreciating t h e .D eep T hings o f G od two of you (i< e. one ■ with faith and the Illustration: The ox grazing in thc meadow other action) shall agree. ■ . ' ■ . ~4he poet or the artist, IV. C o n clu sio n : III. T h e T hrke " W iiats” ■ ' Unbelief the only hindrance to our possibil­ A series of three "ivhats” now, in order o f ities in God. climax unfold the granduer which it is Paul’s prayqr that the Ephesians might know. The FAITH climax is indicated by three specific words, By U . T. H ollenback Hope, ■ I, F aitji Y o kes Us Up t o ,a'G reat G od. Riches, He creates like o' God who is Almighty (Psa, P ow er. 10:1, 2 ). (Psa. 8:3), IV "May Know”—The “Hope’; or H is C a l l ­ He works like an omnipotent workman. in g. ■ : Weighs the mountains in scales, raeas- 1. The eyes (if the heart opened. '■ ■: ■ (2i) 374 THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE

2. nThe eyes of the heart" .occurs nowhere heart. "M y God shall supply every need,” else in the New Testament. It- means, And so the dialogue goes on. Our needs, and ‘'being enlightened as to the eyes o{ God’s inexhaustible riches. ■ . ' your, heart.” . - „ 5. The .riches and glory pre in Christ Jesus, * 3. The heart is the scat of the affections, make your demands and make them large.' but also of the (/loiig/ti and.unff. No checks returned marked insufficient 4. "Hope” not a future expectation, or, the funds.” This bank' will never be bankrupt. thing hoped for, but a'sentiment or . It is an established institution' forever.

i principle of hope divinely bestowed. 4 ■' .---- - 1 a, Hope of heaven. ENDLESS VALUES OF THE GOSPEL b. Hope of divine grace, . (Acts 26:78) c.‘ Regeneration. ’ 1. Tor producing genuine rcpcntancc. d, ■ Entire sanctification. 2. For bestowing! complete pardon. V. “W iiat t h e R iches of t iie G lory" 3. For the work of our sanctification. 1, The glorious abimdance oi eternal things. 4. For personal soul winning. 2. G lory is the essential characteristic of S; For gospel and evangelistic preaching.—-C .E . salvation. . . c . 3; An abundance of glory. . VI. "W h a t th e E xceeding G reatness or H is SOME PREACHED EVANGELISTIC P ow er to U swakd" I.. The opulence of divine grace, n SERMON OUTLINES 2. The iiMwtenJi’/y of the divine mystery. fly B asil W. M iller '.f VII. .“A ccording t o Tiir. W o b x ih g o r H is GOD’S GLITTERING SWORD M ig h ty P ow er” T ext: . If l.whel my glilterlns sword, and my ‘ 1. Dynamic energy, ' )uind take hold bn judgment; 1 will render ven- 2. Heavenly , illumination. . geance to mine enemies, and urill reveardthem that \ 3. “The excellency of. the power”—mean­ hale me. (Dcut. 32:41). ing, Tht\ hyperbole of dynamite. I.„ I ntroduction' '' God has a glittering sword of vengeance. Note THE CHRISTIAN’S BANKNOTE the tragedies of the Bible— ilood, Sodom.and Go- By C. F.. Cornell motrah destroyed, tile plagues, the death at the Text: “ But my God—so great is his wealth Red Sea, falling Jericho, captive -Israel, Belshaz­ 'in Christ Jesus—-will fully supply every-need of zar’s'fatal end—all God’s Klittering sword. Note yours” (Phil. 4:19, Weymouth). . world tragedies—destruction of Jerusalem,' erup­ I. It does not say that he will supply all iour tion of Vesuvius, Pompeii—earthquakes, and Vol­ tennis or all we u-rjft, Wc may want and canoes sent as judgments for sin, San Francisco : wish for a number o r things which are really earthquake came only in those 'sections where sin neither a .necessity nor a need. The promise was rampant. These arc God's glittering sword', is that He will supply every need of yours. against nations. He has'a glittering sword against '2, The late Dr. Arthur T.-Pierson called this individuals— judgments, sudden death, etc. verse the “ Christian’s banknote.” Dr. Pier­ II. W h y G od.'M ust U se His G utte rin g Sw ord' son had it printed in the form of a banknote, Justice in God.demands punishment; rejecting and gave ou t, copies. when he was making His offer of holiness and mercy calls for punish­ pastoral calls, or .when people in distress ment; love spurned demands it; light upon sin, called on 1pm. This banknote has been conviction, refused call for. it; the denied blood of printed by others and .widely distributed. Chnst calls for tire use of the glittering sword o l . 3. Paraphrased the text would read: Name of punishment. banker, “M y G od;’’ Promise to pay, "Sbal! l i t . H o w t h e Guttering Sword is Manifested r/ supply;’’ Amount, “ All yoilr need;'1 Bank Disease coming unheralded — uncovered sin * capital “ According to hts riches;’’ Lpcatfon bringing shame and ruin—impaired health be­ of'bank, “ In glory.” cause of sin— tragedies and calamities—-death in 4. This great banknote Is not much good unless abject horror—the final judgment— ml then the we present it for redemption, What do we ■ torments of hell—are some of the ways by which need? We need comfort. “My God shall . God manifests His glittering sword. supply every need.” What do we need? We TV, Against Whom "is this Gutter two Swoku need strength. “ My God shall supply every ■ U sed ? ' need.” What do we'need? We need guid­ Every man.' who has heard the call to salvation ance. “ My God shall supply every need." 'and. rejected, it, is a subject for God’s glittering What do we need? We need holiness of sword. Every backslider, and every sinner— the - . ■ . ' (22) THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 37S

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gap between two 6,000 voltage cables, and thus ' B. C. Forbes, an author quoted in the Expositor, (used the whole system. So small a thing .can gives/the following illustration: , . ' cause so much trouble,—T. B, Stew art T h o m so n . “ An easterner was visiting a Western ranch, \ • » 1. Tfie.jCfiaitenJnp* of the Lord flock of sheep was being driven across a field.* The visitor noticed that the leader and every other For some days I have been an amused and sheep jumped high in thc air at a certain point, deeply interested Observer of the cbastem'ng or As there was neither ditch nor fence there, he was,^ discipline of one of my little grandsons who is puzzled. He asked the ranch owner if he had not yet a year old. He is almost bursting with any idea what caused the sfteep to act so foolishly. "pep." He simply bubbles over with life. One 'Yes,’ replied"the rancher, ‘many years ago there > of his chief joys is to get Into his bath, It is per­ was a fence here. It .was taken down before any -, fectly delicious In watch him as he kicks and coos o f these-sheep were born. .Their ancestors used and guggles and splashes water all over him­ to jump the fence, and ever since then the sheep self and anyone who comes near, and blinks when have been jumping over an imaginary fence.* water pops into his eyes, and revels, in one of the chief joys of bis young life. But how the little “ Silly sheep, you say. But don't many of us ignoramus does bathe being undressed and re­ shy at imaginary fcnccs ? Sometimes I have worried dressed before and following his bath I He kicks over what I thought was a high bamer,.only to ■ and flourishes his arms in.impatient protest, cries find that the barrier 'existed only in my imagi­ and objects in all manner of baby waysi While his nation,” . insistent mother ignores all his objections, not : '• * ' An Empty Heart ■ asking what he likes, putting on him such clothes as she thinks best, plumps him into his' baby Mel Trotter, the famous rescue mission worker, carriage,' and wheels thc rosy little rogu? out on writes, *‘A friend of mine made up his mind to to the porch-for his morning nap in the sunshine ■ educate poor children, and he spent a fortune at v ■ and soft spring winds. it. His testimony after, years of observation was ; All this to him is chastening, discipline, train- , that there is something lacking because so many ing. It is not severe, it is gentle and wise, but to of them turn out badly. An ignorant boy who is him much of" it is "grievous.” "Now no bad will steal your-dog. Educate him and he chastening for the present sccmettt to be joyous," wiil steal your daughter. An ignorant’ bad boy writes the apostle, "but grievous: nevertheless may pick your poefcet. Educate him and he will afterward"—let us note this “ nevertheless after­ forge your check. In other words, education fails ward" and give thanks and be humble—"never­ to change the heart, and so there must be some' theless afterward ityicldeth the peaceable fruit 'thing more than education In the worthwhile life. of righteousness 'unto them which are exercised It isn't enough to tcacb a person, even if yOu . thereby,” The baby will learn slowly, but teach him to be good. That leaves an empty ' surely,' through this unwavering process that heart, arid^that means room left for sin!” , he must ' submit to rightful authority and Ye Are Mjr Witnes»c» . superior wisdom^ and' that not . that which is . at present pleasant, but that which is : Commissioner: Brengle writes,' “An infidel chal­ right and good must come1 first; then some day lenged a'man of God to debate about 'religion. he will discover that all this “grievous” insistence 'I accept your challenge pn this condition,’’ replied of his unyielding mother was but < the expression thc maii of God, ‘that I bring one hundred men of wise, thoughtful, sacrificial love.—C o u u u is - with me to testify what faith in Christ has done SIOSER S. L. Buencle. for them, and you bring one hundred men to testi­ fy what atheism has done for them,’ The d ia l-? The Dragon Shalt Thou Tmmple ,L lenger was nonplussed, withdrew the ! challenge, Most o f our difficulties' are imaginary, or are „ and there was no debate.'* greatly increased. by our imagination. David * speaks of trampling under foot both thc young The Star to Cod’* W in d ow ' lion and the dragon.' The lion is a real antago­ During, thc Great War, when serving in Fiance nist, something that we really meet in life. But as’ an officer in a famous Highland regiment, I who ever saw a dragon? It is one of those fabled had the pleasure of meeting many fine Americans beasts of olden days that never existed in fact.. who had crossed, the Atlantic to “ do their bit" ' And so with ro&ny of our anticipated difficulties.. in that tremendous struggle. ■ One of them told ' ( 24) THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINfe ill

me of a very beautiful custom, which wc might and most religious creeds required belief In doc­ well have imitated in o u r ' own country. The trines which ; were incomprehensible mysteries. ^United States government, he said, had issued This is precisely’ many a man’s difficulty. He an order giving permission to any citizen who meets the infinite with a shrug o f the shoulders. had given a son to the army or navy or air force Is there a God? How should he know? Eye1, to placc a star in the vyindow of his home. I hath not seen him . . . Can a man believe what V heard a toiichin# stoty of this. One evening, a he does not understand? father was walking through the streets 'of an How was the missionary to meet the objection ? American city with his small son, explaining to ' He asked, “ Then if you found anything in which. him as tftey passed'along the meaning o f those you had to believe, although you could neither - stars in various windows. The wee fellow kept understand it, that objection would be removed, a sharp lookout. “ Look, Dad," he Would cry, would it not?" “ there’s a house with a son at the front—there’s “ yes," said the trader; “ but 1. cannot believe one with two-—that one hasn't any." Then he that any such. thing exists," suddenly saw a single star shining alone ill the “ Will you name me the highest number ■ that evening sky, "W hy," he exclaimed, “ God must you can possibly think of? have given His Son, too, for He has .a star in The man paused to think and soon saw that His w i n d o w . B . Stew art Thompson. whatever number he named, there would be a higher number just above it. If he named o g Ftith'and the Infinite ■ trillion, there was a trillion and onq." The Rev. Samuel Phillips Verner, for some years ■ “ But dotyou not know,” Mr. Verner continued, a ■ missionary in Central Africa, is .the author of . “ that up somewhere there must be that, high a volume entitled “Pipneering in Central Africa.” number? You. know it exists although you can’ J\, In the book Mr. Verner relates an incident which neither name, the number nor demonstrate its ex­ ' tiook place oh the journey out. He fell into istence, So it, is with'the nature and. attributes conversation one day with a big trader, whose of God. We can no more comprehend Him than tone, and attitude to religion were friendly and we can name that number, but we can conceive respectful, but who said that'he could not believe o f His existence, and can imagine some ot His what he could not understand; and that the Bible attributes."—James I. Vance; D. D.

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PREACHER’S VOICE AND DELIVERY must sacrifice one, it is better to sacrifice the By Pkopessor W. W. Myers ^ fo rmal qualities than ’ the fundamental qualities

' - ’ ; , I X of delivery; but it is not necessary to sacrifice 1 HUS far the writer has dealt with tlie' cither. . .. .- formal qualities of delivery. A good voice, If one were to fall into the hands of cannibals .good enunciation, good action,. etc.,..aro/ and should.be given his choice of'having a hand,, certainly to be coveted by the public speaker, but a foot, an car, or his heart severed from h is' he might, have all these and fail. No public - body, he certainly would not choose, the heart. speaker should • neglect to ■ cultivate these formal He could live and get along veey. well with only qualities, but he must not neglect the funda­ one hand; but he could not live without his heart. mental ^qualities of delivery. We have all heard 1 O l course be would not like to lose any member speakers wbosci voice and gestures were quite bad, of the body even though if were nothing more and yet they held the audience with rapt atten­ than his little finger, but he would most cer­ tion. Their speeches were successful, yet they tainly choose to lose it rather than some vital might have been much more so had they mastered organ. Just so it is in speech. .One would hate the formal qualities o! delivery. However, if one to lose any of the 'qualities of delivery, but '■ i2S) 378 THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE

■he would ccrtainly choose to be deficient in some versation, that known as public: speaking most of the formal qualities rather than in the funda­ demands the personal touch, the lively “sense-of mental qualities of delivery. mental contact with people. If the listless, c o lo r -^ In a certain middle western state was held' an Jess, dcad-te/o« folks or at folks, he is talking to moment he steps on the platform, and they form them. .some opinion of him before he utters a word. The folio wing paragraph from “ The Delivery of If these impressions are bad, the speaker has a Spcech" b y .R , K. Immel is very fitting here. much to overcome before he can deliver his mes­ “Of ail placcs in the world, the platform is the sage.. Abraham Lincoln was a good example of a last place for the impersonal attitude, the fishy speaker who gave wrong impressions at the begin­ eye, the colorless voicc. . O f all the forms o f con- ning of his discourses. However, be was one

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man who was able to Overcome a bad beginning. to the truth of their cause, but they most cer­ Very few public speakers have been able to do tainly stood for the right as it was given them t h k . to sec it. Undoubtedly there arc thousands who In order to properly use physical vitality, walk believe Bryan was in the wrong in advocating his to the platform with a firm and purposive step. free silver doctrine, but no one who reads thc He alive. Let the face light up with interest.. "Cross of Gold” speech can doubt that he was Don't forget to 'use the mirror as a means to sincere. When Abraham Lincoln took his posi­ check up on your physical vitality.’ Thc speaker tion on the institution of slavery many believed must dominate the \vhoIe situation from . the him to be radically ■wrong, but of his sincerity very start, and' this must be accomplished largely there could be no doubt. by physical vitality. In other words, have the" command and bearing of’a prince, but not a' Of all public speakers who must be genuine pr.incc on exhibition. Have the physical alertness and earnest, thc preacher heads the list. His of animated conversation, but with greater mag* message is such, that without these fundamental niliidc to reach thc larger crowd. Thc fol- qualities there is iw hope lor success.. Many Jowing quotation shows the importance, of this young men today arc giving up thc ministry be­ subject. “ Vitality characterized Theodore Roose­ cause of the ; modernistic. idea ol sin. Haying velt, and, as much as. anything. else, made him done away with sin, they have no vital message the great speaker that he was," to deliver. One cannot become very, enthusiastic The third fundamental quality of delivery, one over a salvation (?). which does not save from closely allied to vitality, is enthusiasm. They used anything. This loss of enthusiasm and of earnest-., to tell us in Penicl College that what we said.made ’ . ness strikes'at the very fundamental qualities of a'greatcr impression on us th .m jt did on any- delivery, and there is little chince of sucdess. The- rone else. If this be true, how can a speaker get preacher must be earnest, he must'Jse genuine, he others interested in a subject which does not must be sincere,, and he must have a message interest him? How can he generate enthusiasm which is vilfi). We do not care for a minister in his audience when he has none himself?: Whcn who is always apologizing for his position, We the speaker's enthusiasm rises to the, point where ■ may not agrce wilh him, but we like- to see him it results in “a kindling of thc eye, a ring in have convictions and, stand by them. the voice, and life in the gesture and in the Although the speaker must be earnest and gen­ spoken word,” then he can be assured of arous­ uine, yet it is . also important that he have a ing enthusiasm in his hearers. . sense of humor. Sincerity docs not mean sanc­ The value of enthusiasm ts so apparent in timonious solemnity. If the preacher appears too every activity o f , life: that it seefris unnecessary sdemn he will fail to get results. My experience to'cnlarge upon it here.’ One must not forget to with the various preachers of the holiness move­ add poise and control to his enthusiasm. Never ment who have been considered as hell-fire preach­ let your zeal run away with, you. The Bible ers shows that, almost without exception, they speaks of a “ zeal not according to knowledge," have had a highly developed scnseTof humor. They With all one’s force and enthusiasm lie must have ■ deal with thc most terrible subject known to poise to keep himself always in hand. mankind, and yet do not lose their sense of hu­ Thc finat quality' which i3 fundamental in mor. This is as it should be.. Otherwise the speaking is Qenuincntss and ■ earnestness. 1{ a preachcr would not only fail to get results,' but. speaker, is to succeed he must be sincere. One . also his physical vitality would be. so sapped will have great difficulty to get others.to believe that he would soon be unable to preach. The those things- about which he. is in doubt. While strain would be more than he could stand, there, are many crooks in thc frorld, yet, generally, . No one ever doubts thc sincerity of Abraham speaking, a salesman must, believe’ in his wares Lincoln, yet he has seldom been excelled it) a if he succeeds in selling' them. If one gets very . highly developed sense of humor.' It will also far in speech, he must be genuine and earnest; be remembered that his speeches' got results. He may do very well for a while, but people' Who would question the sincerity of Bud Robin­ will find him out after a time, and he will start son; and yet what preacher, has a more highly on the down grade. . developed sense o f humor? If a speech is to be All the really great speakers of every age have measured by the results accomplished, (and what been sincere. They may have, been mistaken as U its value if it fails to get results) where is the (27) ■380 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE

preacher' in the holiness movement that excells another; but when' a fact strides into view, then "Uncle Buddie?” ' - every theory has to be. adjusted, to meet it, I Of course we cannot all be a Lincoln or a Bud hope you remember Mr. Huxley's definition "of a( Robinson, but wc can each develop our own tragedy—f A beautilul theory murdered by a gang talent. Some preachers can tell'humorous stories, of brutal facts." while others cannot. Each has his own individual Indulge me in the-fiction that I am speaking characteristics of humor, and he must' develop, now of a new book—one about which you are these rather than try to be imitative (of others. supposed to .know nothing. In many "cases, that With sonic it may be necessary to tone down ' is not as big $ fiction as I wish.it were. this sense of humor, for it can- be overdeveloped. t ' U n ique in Com position Wc have seen some preachers with a tDij highly First the" composition o f the Book was . most developed sense of humor, and we have seen some unique. Mast books are written in, one language who would be much more effectiveif they would and by one author, and in a limited period. This give some attention "to its development. If one book was written in at -least two languages— walks dose to God, and gives proper attention to the rugged Hebrew and the classic Greek, One study and the development o f his powers, h% of the .greatest students of the classics ijas said that will not go far wrong on this point. Greek came forth from the dead with this book In summarizing, the fundamental qualities of in its hands. Where other books have one au­ spcech arc. (1) a sense of communication, (Z) thor, this has not far from fifty, authors. Other physical vitality, (3)' enthusiasm, and (4) gen­ books were written in a year or a decade, this uineness'and earnestness. Without these qualities book was not far from a thousand years in. the no speech can succeed: with.them a speech m ay desert and some by the sobbing sea, some in a be reasonably successful even though the voice he palace and some in a shec’pfold, and some floated poor; the gestures, auk ward; and the English, out of a prison window in the cramped hand­ wretched.- It, must be remembered that the writing oi an old man who was a prisoner for speech is successful because, of the fundamental ■ conscience’s sake. qualities, not. because of defects in format qual­ We have had many translators of this book ities. ■ It would be much' more successful if there into English, and in some cases the translation' were no defects in the formal qualities, it is im­ costs the translator his life. They would have portant to-have a good voice, good gestures, and killed Wjcklif, but he escaped martyrdom by a good English'; but it is absolutely essential to •paralytic- stroke. Thirty years after his death, have the fundamental qualities1 ot-delivery. the council of Constance ordered that, his bones should be taken up and burned. Tyndale paid1 WHAT ABOUT THE -BIBLE the price for his translation with his life.. They

By Rev. C harles L, G oodell, D. D. sent both his translation and himself to the EASURED by its friends and enemies, flames. His historian naively says, “ They were by the criticisms it has received and exceedingly kind to him; for, instead of burning the encomiums it has evoked, and by him, they only strangled him and burned his body its ■ popularity throughout the centuries and at the stake." .

throughout the world, the Bible stands pre-emi­ U n iq u e i n C m c u l a t j d h nent above all books ever written. The popularity of a book is supposed to be! Interesting as that question would be, I ’am indicated by its circulation. The circulation, of ’ not now concerned witli the question of literary any other book in the history of the world is in­ values as set forth by the higher criticism. While finitesimal in comparison with the circulation of I am In hearty sympathy with all scholarly inves-' the. Book. Let me give you some figures tlgation o f the Bible, for my purpose this after­ which perhaps, -you will be glad to put down. - 1 noon I am making my appeal not to the higher am indebted for them to the American Bible criticism, but the highest criticism; namely, to Society, and this is the very latest authorized the vindication which the Bible has made for it­ statement of its circulation. Last year there self in . the nature of things, in the course of were issued, by the three great Bible Societies— events, and in the providence of/God.. My ap­ the American Bible, Society, the .British and peal then is to facts. As long as a matter is a 'Foreign Bible Society, and the National Bible matter of theory, one guess may be os good as Sodety of Scotland—i26,566,474 Bibles and por­ (28) THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 381

tions. When you add to this’ the product of other “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Bible satieties o f commercial publishers of the When, they wanted the finest sentence ever written Bible, you have at least a round 36 millions of as an epitome of the relation, of religion to the volumes tjiis last year, The product of the three thoughts of men, they asked the president of the Societies up to 1929 was S94,SJ7,

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prcacher in the holiness movement that exceUs another; but when a fact strides into view, then “ Unclc Buddie?” rvcry theory has to be adjusted to meet it, I Of course we cannot all be a Lincoln or a Bud ■ hope you remember Mr. .Huxley's definition of af Robinson, but we can each develop our own ' tragedy—^‘A beautiful theory murdered by a gang ' talent, Some preachers can tell humorous stories, ol brutal facts." . while others cannot. Each has his own individual Indulge me in thc fiction that" I am speaking

characteristics of humor, and he must develop now of a new book—one about which you are € . these rather than try to be imitative of others. supposed to know nothing. In many 'cases, that With some it may be necessary to tone down is not as big a fiction as I wish it were. ' this tense of humor, for it'can be overdeveloped. ■ U niqu e in Com position 'Wjs have seen some preachers/with a. too highly First the composition of the Book was most developed sense of humor, and we have seen some unique. Most books arc written in one language who would be much more effective if they Would and by one author, and in a limited period. This give some attention to its development.. If one book was written in at least two languages— . walks dose to God, and gives proper attention to . the rugged Hebrew and the classic Greek. One study and the development of his powers, he of the greatest students of the classics has said that will not go far wrong on this point. . Greek came forth from the dead with'this book In summarizing, the fundamental qualities of in its hands. Where other books have one au­ speech are: (1) a sense o[ communication, (2) thor,, this has not far from fifty authors. Other physical vitality, (3) enthusiasm, and <4) gen- books were written in a year o r a decade, this . ulnencss arid earnestness. Without these qualities, book was.not far from a thousand years in the. no speech can succeed;,with them a speech may­ desert and some by the sobbing sea, some in a be reasonably successful even though the voice be palace and some in a shecpfold, and some floated : poor; the gestures, awkward; and the English, * out of a prison window, in the ,cramped hand­ wretched. It must he remembered that the writing: of an old man who was a prisoner for speech is successful because of the fundamental. conscience’s sake. ' Qualities, not because of: defects in formal qual­ ' We have had many translators of, this book ities. It .would be much more successful if there into English, and in some cases thc translation ' were no defects in the formal qualities. It is. im­ costs the translator his life. They would have portant to have a good voice, goqd gestures, and killed btit he escaped martyrdom by a good English; but it is absolutely essential, to paralytic stroke. Thirty years after bis' death,' have the' fundamental qualities of.delivery. the council of Constance ordered that his bones should be taken up and burned. Tyndale paid WHAT ABOUT THE BIBLE V thc pricc for his translation with his life. They

By R ev. C harles L. G oodell, D. D . sent both his translation and himself to the EASURED by its friends and enemies, flames. His historian naively says,."They were by the' criticisms it has received and exceedingly kind'10 him; for, instead of burning ’ the encomiums it has evoked, and by him, they only strangled;him and burned his body its ., popularity . throughout' the centuries and at, the stake.” * throughout the world, the Bible stands pre-emi­ U n iq u e in C irculation nent above all books ever written. The popularity of a book is supposed to be Interesting as that question would'be, I am indicated by its circulation. The circulation of not, now concerned with the question of literary any other book in the history of the world is in­ values as set forth by the higher criticism: While finitesimal in comparison with the circulation -of I am .in hearty'sympathy with all scholarly inves­ the Book. Let me give you. some figures tigation of the Bible, for my,purpose this after­ which perhaps; you will be glad to put down. I noon I am making my appeal not to the higher am indebted for tjiem to thc American Bible criticism, ‘ but the highest criticism;, namely, to Society, and this is the very latest authorized the vindication which the Bible has made for it­ statement of. its circulation; Last year . there self, in the nature o f things, in the. course of were issued by the three great' Bible Societies— events, and in thc providence1 of God. My a p -. the American Bible Society, the British and peal then is to facts. As long as a matter is a Foreign Bible Society, and thc National Bible matter of theory, one guess may be as good as . Society of Scotland—56,566,474 Bibles and porr (2B) •1 THE PREACHER’S' MAGAZINE 381

tlons. When you add to this the product of other, . "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Bible societies o f commercial publishers of the When they wanted the finest scntencc ever written Bible, .you have at least a round 36 millions of as an epitome of the relation of religion to the volumes this last year, . The product of the three thoughts ofn u svth ey asked the president of the Societies up to 1920 was 694,537,$S5'volumes, If pldest university to ransack all literature of all wc may add to this, 10 per cent for the product the ages to find that beat scntencc. He found of other publishers,—>which is far too low,—we it in the Bible. It was written by a young man would have more than 750 millions, of volumes. named Micah, It has persisted for millenniums The whole Bible or some part of it has W n and will .last till the stars grow weary with their translated into . 886 languages and dialects, and shining: "He, hath shown thee, O man, what is in the last decade portions into some new lan­ good; and what does the Lord require of thee guages at the rate, of one In every five weeks. The but to do justly, and lo iovp mcrcy, and to walk combined circulation of a store of the world's humbly _with thy G od?" greatest classics would not begin lo touch the hem . “ H ig h l y E xplosive"- . of the garment of that circulation. So, you see, when you arc saying that the Bible is. the most, ■ If you . love a love story, you ought to read popular book In the world, you are welf within your Bible, for that is the love story of God. For the facts.; these few moments that I have, I want to call The'greatest sensation that ever happened in ■ your attention especially to the pragmatic, test, to book circulation was in connection with this the vindlcaton which the Bible makes for itself volume, When a revision of it was ready for in the nature of things and in the coursc of hu-- distribution nearly half a century ago, the longest man events. Prof. Phelps, of Vale, says of it, message, sa far as I know, ever sent by telegraph “It ought to have written on the cover, ‘Highly In the history of the world, was not a message of explosive. Handle with care,’ It Is the book King to Parliament or President to Congress, but which by the-dynamite of its message has lifted a part of tt\is book,—Matthew to Romans inclu­ empires off their. hinges and turned the course sive,— 118,000 words which were telegraphed from ' of human, events. It has put down the mighty New York to Chicago before'the days of the. from their.seat? and hath exalted them, of low telephone, In order that they might reach that . degree/' It b

evidence of their devotion to the great task which the answers to those questions whkh most dis­ they have assumed, have laid their hands on turb the mind and heart of nicn; and behind this book and promised by its strength to be those answers lie millions of affirmative human true to their obligations? experiences. May I remind you that this book I never open thc Book that a liush o f solemn is fragrant with holy personal memories. It has awe does' not fill my soui. Every page has, to behind it, not only a long and thrilling history tbo.-e, who know the fads, the thrilling story; in the passing of the centuries, but it has a more of tlic martyrs, who refreshed their souls whcn intimate testimony from thc lips of those who they were like to faint and .who cooled their hot loved you best and were most deeply interested lips in a draught of its life-giving waters; who . in you. „ found solace in the midst of all; crosses and ' If you have an old family Bible, take it down., losses, and who took thc Book with them as a I .hope that Book lay upon the stand in the liv­ talisman to the scaffold and thc stake. Once ing room and was opened at morning, devotion more I .hear in far-carrying tones the triumphs of the Covenanters in Scptland's killing times. It ,in your early life. I hope those who are dear to was in this fountain of grace, that they found you read it; in life’s twilight, as they read it when strength for every need. It is James Guthrie, the they hung the crane and set up the family altar short man who could not bow, who is going to on. their wedding, day. Those whom you have his death. “M y conscience I .cannot submit," he loved found strength there for the day Of their says. In those five words we Have the iliad of toil; and when they walked in God’s acre, they the martyrs in a nutshell. When the day of his read thc promises which .it contained,, and were coronation was comc, this book lay open .before comforted. Those who are dear to you. ventured him and he said/“ This is the day which the Lord their, all upon the solemn affirmations o f this hath made.. Let us be glad and rejoice." It is book, and whcn at last they took voyage over the Duke of Argyle who is climbing the'steps of that sea which we all must sail, and faced that thc scaffold. To his friends he said, “ I could unseen holy toward which all men hasten, they die like a Roman; but I choo?c rather to die like ^look with them as-their cliart and compass this a Christian," He had bathed'his soul in the spirit blcswd book. When life’s pulse; weee. growing of this book. " It was the Bread o f' Life that fainter, they found here a strength divine, and at held him up. Like a ‘courteous gentleman, he last they pillowed their heads upon its sacred went forward to the glittering blade, and kneeling promises and went hcncc with holy joy. Death down be prayed in silence. Then lie lifted his hand passing that way left upon their faces the smile ■ for a signal. The knife descended, Campbell of it dared not steal, the happy look of a'voyager, Argyle was with his Lord I . . who had comc all cargoed into port. Witch you go to Wittenberg, go into thc old . When you remember who inspired the Book castle church, and as you come to it lay. your and who wrote it; when you remember all those car against the. door, and you can hear the echo who have been sustained by it; when you remem­ of the bammcr where, on that same door, Mar­ ber the vindication which the ages have given it, tin Luther nailed his famous thesis when, he whenever you open this greatest of books, do it sounded the battle cry of the Reformation. Go with a prayer, ahd let these be the words of the inside, and not far from a double grave where prayer, ‘‘Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Luther and MclancHthon lie, you wili see the pas­ wondrous things out of thy Society sage which sustained them, -‘If God be for us* Record, Who can be .against us?"

T h e M essage of G od ' FACTS AND FIGURES May I now consider a more personal reason By E. J. F lem in g why I bring this book to your attention. It is thc message of God to the human soul. Who (Taiett from the'Bible Society Record) am I ? what am I? whence camc I?,and what, is The American Bible Society, in 'l<)28, had the my future? All these questions ate answered1 distinction o f . announcing the largest issue of here, and no other book ever claimed in the same Bible3, Testaments, and portions by any Bible sense to be planned ,in heaven and. written on Society. For the first time it ^xccedcd even those earth. Here, and here; alone, is to be found of (he British Society. THE PREACHER’S MIA.GA2INE

In 1929, while it reports issues almost a'm il­ '.Some among thorns. lion more than the year before, its great fatal of But others fell into good ground over eleven million volumes has been exceeded and- brought forth fruli. by the issues reported by the British and Foreign Some thirty, some sixty, and . Bible Society, which were 11,399,540 volumes. Some a hundred fold. Cordial congratulations to our British friends. Dealing in figures, here are very recent ones The British Society issued 1,021,260 Bibles. from our manufacturing department. On June .1,221,257 Testaments, and 9,157,023 portions— a 27 a printing order was placed, in regular coursc, notable achievement and a world service. for .1,200,000 one-cent portions, to replenish, stock.

The National Bible Society of Scotland also Dissecting this order, other interesting facts reports , a banner year. Their issues during 1926 are revealed. The total was made up of 100;000 total 4,134,440 volues, consisting of 72,958 Bibles, of the Epistle to the Rqmans, and .200,000 of 213,248 Testaments and 3,848,234 portions. ' the Gospel by Matthew in English, and 900,000 of th? Gospel by John—50,000 in Italian,; 50,000 in- Polish, and 800,000 in English. The Scripture Gift, Mission announces that its issues during 1928 consisted of 14,852 Bibles, 161,533 Testaments, and 2,415,914' portions, mak­ A fact emerges from the record of 1928 in ing a fine total of 2,592,299 volumes. China, which is almost incredible in the face of the disturbed conditions and ^nationalistic movement In that land. The three great Bible The figures reported in the preceding para­ Societies— the American, the British and Foreign, graphs, together with the issues o f the Am cri-. and the Scottish—report a joint circulation, dur­ ' can Bible Sodcty, previously reported, show, that, ing 1928, of 11,408,469 volumes ol Scripture in- during 1928, these four Societies alone issued China-alone) The circulation by the American tu'cnly-nine million, one hundred and fifty-eight Bible Society was 4,674,123; by the British and thousand and seven hundred and scventy4hree Foreign,Bible Society, 3,951,000; and by the Na-- volumes of Scripture, -and’ hot one of them mei tional Bible Society of Scotland, 2,783346 v o l ­ fully the demand on ill umes. A further surprising and gratifying de­ velopment of the. year was that each of these . The figures for other Bible societies, missionary Societies reported marked increase in circula­ organizations, and commercial houses which pub­ tion during 1928 over 1927—the Americaft, over lish the Scriptures, are not-available. Remember­ one and a half million; the British, over three ing that a single commercial publishing house in hundred thousand; and.the Scottish, almost one decent years has advertised that it issued one mil­ million; the total increase ot the 'year being lion Bibles in a year, it would seem entirely safe 2,866,311 volumes. to assume that, alt of those other organizations together issued another seven and a half million OvEit EttvEN M illion volumes. With 11,032,494 volumes issued in 1928, the Society rejoices in having reached the highest It seems entirely safe to estimate that.36,500,000. total-In its history. The great bulk of the vol- Volumes of Scripture in several hundred languages, .umes were portions, and the great bulk of por­ were issued in 1928, Think a moment of the sig­ tions were Gospels. No part of thf Bible is more nificance of those figures: 100,000 every day— important, and no books o f the Bible are more '4,000 every hour,—>700 every, minute, day arid . carefully read. Therefore the tremendous number night. Do not such figures and facts offset some of portions issued is a cause of rejoicing. On ol the gloomy iacts and figures of current life? the other hand, it is regretted that the number of complete Bible and complete Testaments Issued A Sower went forth to sow. . last year was less than the year before. There The Seed is the W ord.of God. were 305,019 Bibles, 618,610 Testaments, and 10,-. ■ Some fell by the wayside. 108,865 portions, issued—the total being 997,697 Some upon stony ground. in excess of the previous year. Again the year' is 384 • THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE

marked by the largest total ’of issues in one year plcte ink print Bibles. Of the embossed volumes, from cither the Home or Foreign‘Agencies. The 1,272 were in JRcviscd Braille "l'/j, 379 in New record for the highest total has swung back to York I'pint, 355 in Moon, 122 in American Braille,' the Foreign Agencies, which issued 6,427,579 vol- 75 in. English Braille, JO in Line Letter,-12 ,in, ume^.. The China Agency, issued the astounding Spanish Braille, and 1 in Arabic Moon. These total of 4,794,73.0 volumes; anti the Japan. were ■ supplied to over 600 individuals and to Agency, lor the first, time, passed the one-million several libraries and schools serving many more mark by issuing 1,056,116 volumes. V blind. .. These Scriptures were issued in 181 languages The total of embossed volumes of Scripture dis­ during 1928, at home and abroad. tributed in the llni'cd States for the Blind by > .The total issues o f the Society in the one hun­ thq Society since it began this service In 1835 dred, and. thirteen (113) years of its service have is now 74,889. been two hundred and five million, ninety-six During the year, ‘the Society published in' thousand, two hundred and fifty-one (205,096,251) fnterpomt form, far the first time, the Old Testa­ volumes. ment, following the American. Standard Revised In its .ninety-third consecutive year of service, Vcrsiun, in 15 volumes in Revised Braille. to the Blind, the Society supplied 2,266 embossed Another additional service to the Blind was volumes from the Bible House, New York. Since authorized in early December. For several years, each, pf these large volumes contains only a por­ the Society hai set a uniform price of ?1 for each tion of the Bible,, this number was equivalent to embossed, volume, though they cost from $3 to : only 123 complete Bibles. Toward . the $7,000 $8 apiece. This special price has now been further which they cost, the blind and their friends paid reduced to 50 cents a volume, making , these e x ­ . $1,459,— a sum sufficient to. purchase. 2,353 com-. pensive volumes still more accessible to the blind. 1 Doran's Ministers* Manual A Study and Pulpit Guide for l9 3 0 MANUAL Planned for the busy pastor. Not a mere book o f sermon outlines, but a veritable, mine of the very best available ser7 tnonic material for the modern preacher. Cover* the calendar m m m year, with a complete new collcction of illustrations, poems, —1«ML« outlines, suggestive texts, children's sermons, invocations-and i otlicr features which make it indispensable to the busy pastor. .Topical and scriptural indices make each. item immediately available, • ■ . ■ ■ Price $2.00; postpaid

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