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VOL. I NO. 12 DECEMBER, 1926 WHOLE NO. 12

The M aster Preacher "Lovest thou me . . . feed my sheep.”

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THE PREACHING SPIRIT WO weeks ago, as I waited for the completion of the “preliminaries,” I suddenly awakened to the fact that I was not in the proper “spirit” to preach on the subject of the morning. I had my material very well in hand and knew very well what I expected to say. I had no T doubt but that I would “preach a good sermon,” as such matters are commonly measured among us. But I was pained at the reminder that my theme was much “beyond” me, from the standpoint of feeling and preparation of spirit. I would soon be preaching on love, but my own heart was rather cool. I would be talking about the fulness of the Holy Spirit, but my own situation was somewhat “common place.” What was I to do? If I had been utterly without any thing to say, as I was without the proper spirit for saying it, I would have asked that the time be given to testimonies and that preaching be postponed for some other occasion. But as it was, I could not very well do that. So I lifted my heart in earnest prayer and repentance and contrition and promise of better conduct for the future, and God did hear me and help me to a goodly measure of the melting, unctuous touch which I so much desired. Describing my experience of two weeks ago, I would not think of my sense of lack in terms of guilt, but I simply felt “secular” and “earthy” and professional. I felt more like a sermon deliverer than like a message bearer. I was more of a preacher than a prophet. But one day last week I was exceedingly busy all day and came up to the time when I was to preach to a small group in] a cottage meeting, and I cam; there uncertain as to what I should say. However, I was in “the preaching spirit.” I was not hilarious, rather I was burdened and careful and almost depressed. Nevertheless, I “felt” like preaching, and I did preach the simple substance of my quickly gathered sermon effectively. And all this has set me to thinking. Many times I have been asked to preach a certain ser­ mon which I have preached somewhere else and have mentally agreed to do so, but when the hour arrived I found I was not “in the spirit” to preach on that theme at all. By some attention to my “feelings” in such matters, I have found that I must never preach on hell when I feel at all indifferent, that I must never preach on the Judgment when I have the slightest semblance of resentment, that I cannot preach on repentance when I am in any thing of a light vein, and that I cannot preach on sin when I am unmoved. As a matter of fact, “the spirit” I find myself in at preaching time has many times decided me as to the theme I should use. I can preach on doctrine —especially on the doctrine of holiness—when I cannot preach on any thing else, so I have just about decided to preach holiness all the times I preach except those times when I especially “feel like” preaching on something else. But our main thought here is to emphasize the importance of “the preaching spirit,” and to suggest that aside from material, texts, outlines and illustrations, it takes lots of prayer, lots of genuine praying through, and lots of holy living to qualify one for preaching the Gospel as it ought to be preached. The preacher must not only be saved from wicked things, but he must keep away from the smell of materialism and secularism and keep the odor of devotion, heavenly­ mindedness, and the personal sense of prophetic ordainment upon him in order to be a real preacher. 2 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE THE PREACHER’S GRAVEYARD OVE and appreciation for one’s work are elements which make for success, no matter what the calling in life; but these factors are indispensable with the preacher. We smile some­ L times at the enthusiam of “the young preacher,” who thinks his people the finest there are and who thinks there are opportunities in his little village beyond those claimed for the metrop­ olis. But his enamorment for his work will produce a zeal and freshness which will make him succeed, while the staid old pulpiteer to whom preaching is a common place occupation will lose his crowd and lose his crown. When romance dies the preacher dies. Romance is to the preacher what oil is to the machin­ ery, and when it dies the preacher will feel the friction and the wear and tear of his life. He will be conscious of his sacrifices and will be hurt by his disappointments. He will be exacting in his requirements and dissatisfied with his remunerations. He will never be “at his best” any more, because he will never find a situation that is fully deserving of his best. The romance of the preacher’s calling never died in those preachers who served well their own day and generation. “Paul the aged” never ceased to marvel that “to me, who am less than the least of all saints this grace is given.” Spurgeon testified that he never entered the pulpit without being so affected as that his knees smote together. Whitefield arose from his bed of final sickness and preached until the candle which he held in his hand burned low, all the time realizing that this would be his last time to speak to men on any subject. And the most used “soldiers of the cross” have asked for nothing better than that they should be privileged to “die in the harness.” These men were so enamored of their work that they asked for no better companion in death than that they should be allowed to preach and die during the same hour. Preacher, young or old, if your work as a preacher of the Gospel no longer thrills you, you better select your graveyard, for you will need one, typically, if not physically, very soon.

HOW MANY BOOKS DO YOU READ IN A YEAR? The Eastern Oklahoma District of the Church of the Nazarene in its recent annual Assembly passed resolutions requiring ministers to report at the next Assembly the number of books read during the year. And in discussing the matter, one minister was heard to voice objections to the requirement and to assert that he himself had not read any books during the year. Fortunately we do not know who the minister was who made this remark, for on that account we can speak. the more freely about the matter. But any, way, all we were going to say is that we think that a minister who can go a year without reading any books is already a long way on the road to permanent failure and that when the church sets him aside while he is yet in the prime of his physical life, because, like a passing tree, he is “dead at the top,” he will have no one to blame but himself. But as we have thought of the matter today, it has occurred to us that it might be just a little embarrassing if every preacher were required to report the number of books read each year, for many who read some do not read very much. We have heard it said that a writer who does not read will soon cease to be read, and) we believe that a preacher who does not read and hear will soon cease to be heard. Of course the question of what books the preacher should read is a difficult one, and with the best of care, he will have to read a good many books which will not yield much profit But these considerations call for more, rather than for less reading. It does look like any preacher ought to be able to buy or borrow one book a month and read it thoroughly. One young preacher read twenty-one books last year and was ashamed that he had read no more. Two preachers of our acquaintance make it a rule to read a book a week, and we know two who; have set themselves to read four books every week of the year. We are not anxious to set a certain standard. Some will naturally read more than others. But we are anxious that no preacher should be satisfied who does not make some worthwhile efforts along this line. THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 3

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LETTERS ON PREACHING 1. Want of spiritual perception—the “way­ By A. M. H il l s. side” hearer. XI. The Textual Sermon 2. Want of depth of character.—“Stony HEN we use the text not only to places.” give us our theme, but also the divi­ 3. Dissipating influences—“Thorns.” sions of the sermon, largely in the II. Requirements for permanence of religious very words of the text, we have the textual impressions: sermon. Not infrequently some of the divisions 1. Sincerity.—“An honest and good heart” are more or less implied logically but are not (Luke 8:15). explicitly stated. Then it becomes a textual-in­ 2. Meditation—“Keep it” (Luke 8:15). ferential sermon. 3. Endurance—“With patience” (Luke 8:15). Sometimes the thoughts of the text are brought We heard a very able female preacher in Eng­ out fairly and faithfully by the discussion, while land, Mary A. Hatch, discourse from the text they are not stated very definitely in the exact Ps. 145:16, “Thou openest thine hand and satis- language of the text. It is still a textual sermon, fiest the desire of every living thing.” but its variety is textual-topical. T h e m e , “ G od’s P rovidential C are.” I. The textual sermon should commend itself I. It is God’s own personal care.—“Thou.” to every true man of God because of its reverent II. He does it easily. “Openest thy hand.” loyalty to the holy Word. The preacher is not How easily we can do that! preaching man’s theories and opinions, but God’s. III. Abundantly . provides.—“Satlsfieth the de­ The average audience will not be slow in finding sire of every living thing.” it out. They will instinctively know that the “Enough for each; enough for all, preacher has put himself in the right place Enough forevermore.” before them—as God’s messenger, God’s ambas­ What could be more appropriate or scriptural? sador. It will tend to make them sit up and Take the remarkable words of Jesus in Matt. listen to what God has to say to them. 11:28-30, “Come unto me all ye that labor” etc. 1. The textual sermon in its simplest form Theme, Christ’s Rest for a Sin-burdened Human­ may unfold the text clause by clause, or even ity. word by word. Some fifty years ago Dr. Deems was a prominent pastor of New York City. He I. All humanity is bearing the crushing burden preached on Rom. 6:21. His theme was “Charac­ of sin. “Labour”—“Heavy laden.” teristics of a Sinful Life.” (a). Its Barrenness. II. An infinite, divine Person is the world’s only “What fruit have ye?” (b). Its Slavery. “Slaves hope.—“Come unto Me.” “I will give.” No other of sin” (v. 17), “Servants to uncleanness” (v. 19), religion like that. No other founder of a religion “Slaves of sin” (v. 20). (c). Its Shamefulness: ever did or could speak so. “Ye are now ashamed.” (d). Its Destructive­ III. The Savior offers Himself to all humanity. ness. “The end of those things is death.” That “Come unto Me.” “Learn of Me.” “All ye.” is noble preaching on a neglected theme. IV. “Take my yoke upon you.” All must serve Sixty years ago F. W. Robertson’s sermons some superior being—God or Satan! Which ? were moving the English speaking world. He V. Only in Christ’s service can rest be found. usually had two main divisions to his sermons, “Ye shall find rest to your souls.” and subdivisions. Here is a specimen: Such textual preaching is directly calculated “T h e P arable of t h e S o w er .” to introduce a sinful soul to God. If the text T ext— Matt. 13:1-9. is skillfully treated the divine Voice is heard I. The Causes of Failure: in every paragraph. 4 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE This kind of sermonizing depends in a general a student in college, and some of the impressions way upon three things: of awe which he produced, like the voice of 1. On the nature of the text. Not all texts' God on Sinai, linger with us yet after fifty-eight can be so developed; but multitudes can be, years and will go with us into eternity. and ought to be. Dr. Pattison, in his Homiletics, mentions “the 2. On the preacher’s analytical skill. He must tremendous force of Jonathan Edwards in “wrath be able to discern the different lines of truth, upon the wicked to the uttermost which lay in and which should precede, and which should the resistless logic of a series of conclusions, follow in the natural sequence of thought. The drawn straight from the text.” He adds, “The text, the theme and the sermon should be a same holds true of the addresses of C. G. Finney, harmonious whole. The mine of truth must not in which the passionate emotion of the preacher be “salted” with some extraneous matter, some quenches his logical acumen no more than the foreign human element, which God did not put ripening vines of Vesuvius quench the fires burn­ there. ing at its heart.” Well do we remember such 3. The preacher should have a spiritual per­ scenes. He would discuss a text in all its bear­ ception, a certain divine insight which only the ings, and theh close with “a few remarks” in Holy Spirit can give to sense the mind of God, which he would draw his logical inferences like and know what He would teach to men. This chain-lightning, which were sometimes indescrib­ is no far-fetched and human notion. The true able in their effects. preacher ought to be able to say with St. Paul: An illustration of logical inferences may be “Now we have not the spirit of the world, but given in the last text from which John Wesley the spirit which is of God: that we might know preached—Isaiah 55:6-7, “Seek ye the Lord while the things which were freely given to us of God. he may be found: Call ye upon him while he Which things also we speak, not in words which is near,” etc. man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit I. The logical inference is that by nature we teacheth; combining spiritual things with spirit­ are all away from God. Else, why are we com­ ual.” .... “We have the mind of Christ” manded to “seek” Him ? This is true to all (1 Cor. 2:12-16). human history and all saving truth. Sin separates Really Spirit-filled preachers will not be likely us from God and “all have sinned.” to read into texts of Scripture wild fads and II. Seek God while He may be found. The foolish vagaries of their own invention. They irresistible inference is that there is a time in have too profound and reverent a respect for every moral being’s career when God cannot be the Word of God to allow themselves to do it. found. The dead line will be crossed and mercy II. The textual-inferential sermon is an ad­ will be gone forever. When, then, shall we vance upon the proper textual sermon. seek God? (a) In early life. I saw a boy 1. It holds fast to the thought and spirit of yesterday who was converted at four years of the text, and many of the words, but at times age. He is just twelve, and two weeks ago draws logical inferences which, when stated, are had a definite call to the ministry. That is God’s undeniable and irresistible. The force of this time and way. (b) Seek God when God is kind of sermon depends on the clearness and seeking you. (c) Seek God when others are cogency of the reasoning. It is, in the hands finding Him. of an acute reasoner, and a keenly logical mind, III. In what way shall we seek Him? a mighty weapon of truth. (a) By repentance, v. 7. 2. Not all texts admit of this kind of treat­ (b) By faith, v. 7. ment. In many texts the truths are stated so IV. In what Spirit? plainly and completely that there is left no call “With all your heart.”—Appeal. nor necessity for inferences. But this is not I know this outline is in harmony with God’s always so, as we shall see. truth and will work, for I have won six hundred 3. When the text is of the right order and and eighty-six souls by the use of it myself. the preacher has an astute and legal mind, such III. The textual-topical sermon combines a as Charles G. Finney had in an eminent degree, close adherence to the thought of the text in this kind of a sermon is most impressive. We the sermon-outline with a freedom in range of listened to that spiritual giant four years when discussion. There is a careful analysis of the THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 5 text to find the mind of God; and then a “the textual-topical method insures freshness and synthesis of the arrangement of the thoughts variety in the sermon. The mind of the preacher suggested, in that form most adapted to the is indeed held in wholesome subjection to the preacher’s mental constitution. No two pulpit words of the text and yet at the same time it orators are alike, either in their original en­ ranges freely about the central thought.” There dowments or their reading and education, or is an ample opportunity for eloquence in this in their experiences and observations. So there method combined with a marked regard for and will be a large human element in their sermons adherence to the message of God. and no twro will be alike. We may conclude by saying that textual In this kind of a sermon often the thought preaching is to be most heartily commended. It rather than the words of the text receive the tends to keep the preacher in his true place as chief attention, and there is a large liberty in an ambassador for Christ. It cultivates in him a the discussion. “The thoughts which constitute profound reverence for the truth of God’s Word. the divisions are found partly in the text and It makes the people feel that God is speaking to partly ^ elsewhere.” them through the preacher’s lips. It furnishes a vast variety and freshness in the pulpit minis­ In such a sermon there should be a steady tration; for the texts are innumerable with an and purposed progress and development of the ever-changing setting in the contexts. The Bible, divine thought to a definite and intended con­ carefully, lovingly studied and faithfully preached, clusion, towrard which the whole sermon moves is inexhaustible, and the prayerful servant of from the beginning to the end. God will never lack for messages from the King A preacher who is drifting over the seas of to His people. human thought in his address, with no intended The famous Dr. A. A. Alexander wrote: “Learn port in view or purpose, beginning anywhere to preach textual sermons. The mistake of my and ending nowhere, is not preaching at all. He early ministry was in preaching almost solely is simply wasting time, making some vapid re­ on topics. If you preach textual sermons you marks, himself a disgrace to his profession and won’t be apt to preach out.” Faithful, prayer­ an insult to Christ. ful textual preaching is the royal road to long Dr. Pattison thinks that more than any other, pastorates and a fruitful ministry. HINTS TO FISHERMEN By C. E. C ornell

Bishop Edgar Blake, writing from Europe, to point. Loads that before the war w'ere un­ the Christian Advocate, New York, on “Is Prot­ dreamed of, were laid upon the people. It may estantism Dying in Europe.” makes some start­ interest you to know that the nations that were ling statements that ought to be carefully noted our allies in the war must now pay the United by the readers of this Magazine: States a million dollars a day every day for the “The religious situation of Europe, as a whole, next sixty-two years. This is only a bagatelle is a situation without a parallel in the world of the burdens the coming generations of Europe today. So far as I know, there has never been must bear.” anything quite like it in the history of organized “The middle classes of Europe were ruined Christianitly.” through financial reverses brought about by the “The World War profoundly altered the whole war. Their salaries lost their purchasing power; life and outlook of Europe. The awful holocaust their savings were swept away. Their station in that swept the continent from 1914 to 1918 left life was completely reversed. No social group it broken and bankrupt. The people were im­ has suffered so immeasurably as they. The mid­ poverished, their morale broken, and their hopes dle classes were the backbone of Europe Protest­ blighted. The total political, economic, and social antism. Financial reverses have resulted in a fabric was weakened and w'orn to the breaking depression of spirit, a lowered morale, and a loss 6 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE of spiritual vision and vitality. There were ercised, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, 781,000 withdrawals from the membership of in the service of the church. the Protestant churches of Germany in three A “charism” is a gift of power bestowed by years. There were 60,000 such withdrawals in the Holy Spirit for use in the propagation of Berlin alone in twelve months. The number of truth or the edification of the church. Some­ theological students in the schools of Germany times added to, and heightening natural endow­ has been reduced to less than one half of what ments. it was in 1913.” “The Roman Catholics constitute today one NEVER GRASP A HOT POKER of the most compact and powerful political There’s a time to part and a time to meet, blocs in the Balkans. The hand of Rome is now There’s a time to sleep and a time to eat, one of the most powerful forces in southeastern There’s a time to work and a time to play, Europe.” There’s a time to sing and a time to pray, “Before the war the Polish people were dis­ There’s a time that’s glad and a time that’s blue, tributed among Protestant Germany, Orthodox There’s a time to plan and a time to do, Russia, and Catholic Austria. As a result of There’s a time to grin and to show your grit, the war the Polish republic was created with a But there never was a time to quit. population of 30,000,000 people, almost entirely —Florida Power and Light Magazine. Roman Catholic. Poland is nowT the largest WRITE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE Roman Catholic country in Europe. The following suggestive poem can be memo­ rized and repeated with telling effect in con­ THREE STRIKING DEFINITIONS nection w'ith a Sunday night evangelistic sermon. The Standard Dictionary gives the following: If you have a gray-haired mother R edeem —“To regain possession of by paying In the old home far away, a price,—purchase back, repurchase. To recover Sit down and write the letter from captivity or from a liability to be wholly You put off day by day. lost or alienated. Hence to rescue in any way, Don’t wait until her tired steps to deliver—save. (Theology) to rescue from sin Reach heaven’s pearly gate— and its consequences.” But show her that you think of her, S anctification —“The act or process of sanc­ Before it is too late. tifying, or the state of being sanctified; specifi­ cally, in theology, the gracious work of the If you have a tender message, Holy Spirit whereby the believer is freed from Or a loving word to say, sin and exalted to holiness of heart and life; Don’t wait till you forget it, distinguished from regeneration and justification. But w'hisper it to-day. In Roman Catholic theology it is the cleans­ Who knows what bitter memories ing of the soul from sin together with the in­ May haunt you if you wait? pouring of sanctifying grace, and the three theo­ So make your loved ones happy logical virtues—faith, hope, charity.” Before it is too late. P u r it y —“To free from admixture with for­ eign or vitiating elements. To make clean or We live but in the present, pure, as to purify the blood, to purify silver. The future is unknown— In theology, to free from sin or its defilement Tomorrow is a mystery, as to purify the heart. (Synonyms) clarify, To-day is all our own. clean, cleanse, filter, make pure, refine. (An­ The chance that fortune lends to us tonyms) Contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, May vanish while we wait, deprave, infect, make foul, poison, taint, vitiate.” So spend your life’s rich treasure Before it is too late. CHARISM There are seven distinct charisms named in The tender words unspoken, the Scriptures. Prophecy, ministering, teaching, The letter never sent, exhortation, giving, ruling, and showing mercy. The long-forgotten messages, All these functions were inspired, and were ex­ The wealth of love unspent. THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 7 For these some hearts are breaking, the kingdom of God.” He was suddenly de­ For these some loved ones wait— stroyed, and that without remedy. So show them that you care for them That night they slew him upon his father’s throne; Before it is too late. The deed unnoticed, and the hand unknown: Crownless and scepterless Belshazzar lay, N. G. O. A robe of purple round a form of clay. (Not Generally Observed). “DIED, OF PRELIMINARIES” Deut. 22:5-6. 1 Kings 8:46. I wonder how they will start a meeting in Eccl. 5:1, 2. 1 Chron 12:1, 2, 8. heaven! Will they do it always the same way? Eccl. 5:12. Psa. 118:8. (Middle verse If not, a lot of Methodist preachers are going Eccl. 5:19, 20. Eccl. 1:7. [of the Bible). to have a hard time. Eccl. 7:20. Prov. 30:18, 19. Night after night, hope springs afresh in the Eccl. 9:14, 15. Eccl. 10:20. human heart, burning with a message and a Joshua 1:2. Prov. 30:33. chance to speak it to waiting audiences. Ask Take your Bible and find these Scriptures and any missionary or other special speaker. I hope­ select a text for a sermon. fully approach the pastor. “May we not make the introduction very brief tonight, brother?” “IN THAT NIGHT” I suggest. Dan. 5:30. “Certainly, certainly.” The very night of the drunken, profane feast, And then he waits fifteen minutes to be sure the Medians under Darius and the Persians under they are all there, sings three hymns to give Cyrus, had, by digging a canal, turned the river the stragglers a chance, has a long prayer, a Euphrates from its bed, and, passing along the responsive reading, a solo and an introductory dry channel, turned towards the city, and, pass­ address. Forty-five minutes gone, a week-night ing through the open gates along the water side, audience weary and longing for home, a message the great Babylon was theirs. It does not seem discounted fifty per cent before the first word that there was any resistance. The inspired is uttered. prophet Jeremiah predicted the outcome: “The I implored a pastor at a Sunday evening mighty men of Babylon have foreborne to fight, meeting to please, please make it short, I really they have remained in their holds; their might had something to say. Certainly he would make hath failed; they became as women; they Have it short, but it took him fifty-five minutes to do burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken. so, and when I arose the people were beginning One post shall run to meet another, to show the to go out. I wanted to myself. “Not many king of Babylon that his city is taken at one came at night,” he said. I should think not. end” (Jeremiah 51:30, 31). I remember how when a young pastor, oc­ How could there have been any resistance casional lecturers expressed profuse gratitude for when a thousand leaders were drinking them­ opportunity to begin after preliminaries that selves drunk, debauching themselves in profanity never occupied more than five minutes. I have against the God of heaven? And here too we come to understand it since I have become the have the fulfilment of the prophecy:” And I victim of the pastor’s propensity for form. will make drunk her princes and her wise men, I have hinted, requested, begged and implored, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty I have felt like locking the preacher in the men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, parsonage and taking charge myself, but to no and not wake, sayeth the king, whose name is purpose. It has to be done. And tonight I the Lord of Hosts” (Jeremiah 51:57). will hopefully ask the brother if he can’t make The record of the end is terse— “Was Bel­ it short, and he will cheerfully prpmise to do so, shazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.” By and then use up a half hour of my time. whose hand and in what manner we know not; Some time I will find somewhere a man who but it is probable that it was while he was in can really put across a short preliminary and I the festal hall, and it may be while he was in­ will mention him most favorably to Saint Peter, toxicated with excess of wine with the curse of if I ever get a chance, after the preliminaries God upon him: “No drunkard shall inherit are over. —B ish o p G eorge A. M il l e r . 8 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE

AN OUTLINE OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY It was an easy thing to take a man by the Thou, 0 Christ, art all I want; hand, and if the hand has a heart behind it, More than all in Thee I find; and the clasp is of the heart as well as hand, Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind. what wonder if by it men are uplifted and helped and saved! When we think of various massive two-volume tomes of systematic theology which ornament and usually gather dust upon ministerial book CIVILIZATION AND WILDERNESS shelves throughout the country, the above out­ The epic task of the nineteenth century in line may seem rather short. It is short. It is America was to make a path for civilization also sufficient. In fact, it is considerably longer across the wilderness. The ironical discovery than the outline of systematic theology drawn of the twentieth century is that civilization it­ up by one of the Church’s greatest theologians self may be a wilderness. It inevitably becomes —Saint Paul. He produced a sufficient outline a wilderness when it is merely a standardized, of theology in eleven words—“Believe on the mechanical industrialism with no dominant spirit­ Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” ual ideal or purpose. —H. E. L u cco ck. —H . E. L u cc o ck . “WAIT TILL TOMORROW” THE THRILL OF A HAND-CLASP A hush fell on Hades. A silence intense, While Imps stood in wonder and horrid suspense; Jesus “took him by the hand!” This was For Satan, the arch-fiend, in anger most dire, one of the wonderful secrets of the Redeemer's Had summoned a council—from them did require power over human hearts. Touch—a personal Some method unique; an up-to-date plan, touch, symbol of heart-sympathy—is a key which Whereby he might compass the downfall of man. unlocks many an imprisoned life. A sweet ex­ They gazed on his visage in fear as they heard ample of. it was seen in the Earl of Shaftesbury, Their leader confessing the power of the Word; as he went on his ministry of love among London That Salvation Armies were moving afield, Invading his Kingdom with drum, sword and criminals. One who was reformed dated his up­ shield; lift to his intercourse with the Earl. Of missions; of churches; of women and men '“What did he say to you?” asked one. Devoting their talents of pencil and pen; “Oh, it was not so much what he said, a? Their wealth, their position to spreading false what he did. He took my hand, and said: ‘Jack, views, “Thus daily cheating me out of my dues.” we’ll make a man of you vet.’ It was the touch Quoth he, “I went forth o’er the earth in great that did it.” glee Daniel Webster went out from his country Expecting my trip would bring profit to me; home to Boston to study law. He entered, with­ Instead, I return like a chilly lamb shorn, out invitation, the office of Christopher Gore, Pursued by the blasts of a noisy Ram’s Horn. then at the head of the Massachusetts bar. He Now don’t stand like dummies; get over your fright, was regarded as an intruder, and nobody paid Make use of your cunning, or, hear me, this night him any attention. One day Rufus King saw These regions infernal, in less than a trice, the solitary student, and shook him warmly Though torrid, I’ll make them far colder than by the hand, and said: ice.” “I know your father well. Be studious, and He ceased, and at once there arose a great din Of tongues harsh and strident; for each Imp of you will win. If you want any assistance or sin advice, come to me.”, Had something to offer. Some new evil way Webster said when he was sixty years old To trap the unwary; to lead them astray. that he still felt the warm pressure of the hand. Said one, “I will tell them their Bible’s a lie. When Peter took the lame man “by the right And souls that love evil shall live and not die. hand, and lifted him up, immediately his feet To live for the day; make the best of the show, And as for the future—I’ll say I don’t know.” and ankle-bones received strength; and, leaping “Too late!” said the Devil, “The job has been let up, stood and walked, and entered with them To men who are crafty in spreading a net. into the temple, walking, and leaping, and prais­ They plead on that line, their tongues tipped with ing God” (Acts 3:7, 8). honey. THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 9 Alas! they are making, not converts, but money.” “Bravo,” said Satan. “Now to work, And thus did they argue, plan, plot and propose, Haste! fly! begone! Let none dare shirk. While darker the brow of his majesty grows. At last comes a voice. Such triumph is in it. The problem’s solved. Back to your task, The babel is hushed, at least for a minute. Deceive, betray, use any mask. “I have it! I have it! No longer look blue. If some o’er sin are in a flurry, Admit that their Bible, their story is true. Plead lots of time; no need to hurry; That He, whose dread name none here dare to Use every wile to make them wait, speak, Has suffered and died for the helpless and weak, THE MORROW IS EVER TOO LATE.” That conq’ring, He rose over death and the grave, The above poem can be used with thrilling And now reigns in triumph, with power to save. effect at the close of an earnest exhortation or Admit there is rest and surcease of sorrow, If only they’ll w a it and accept it to m o r ro w .” sermon appeal. HOMILETIC AL iiiiiiimitiiiiiiitiitiiiiiiiiiiiiM itiiiiiiiiiiiiHmiiiiiiimtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiimM tiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiHtiiiitiiM iiiitiiiiiiiiiiiniiii

THEME—GOD’S CALL DISREGARDED of God in the soul." “We have a voice within By A. M. H il l s . us, still and small, yet louder than the thunder. It is the aboriginal vicar of Christ. It is a T e x t : “Because I have called and ye have re­ fused; I have stretched out my hand, and no prophet in its informations, a monarch in its man hath regarded; But ye have set at nought peremptoriness, a priest in its sanctions and all my counsel, and would none of my reproof-. anathemas. It is the wondrous power which I also will laugh in the day of your calamity. I works neither by insinuation, flattery nor threat; will mock when your fear cometh.” “Then shall but by merely holding up the naked law in the they call upon me, but I will not answer.” “They soul, extorts for itself reverence if not always would none of my counsel. They despised all obedience. It is always against sin. It points my reproof.” “Therefore shall they eat of the directly to Jesus, whose blood alone can make fruit of their own ways, and be filled with their the conscience clean. own devices” (Prov. 1:24-26; 28-31, R. V.). 3. God calls by His Spirit and His Word. To my mind this has long been one of the “The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God most impressive passages in the whole Word of is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” God. It depicts in beautiful language the pri­ “Look unto me and be ye saved, all ye ends of mary attitude of God toward sinners. Then it the earth.” “Come unto me all ye that labor represents the sinner’s reception of the divine and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” call. Then it depicts the awful results of driv­ “I came not to call the righteous but sinners to ing God’s Spirit away by turning from God. repentance.” I. Notice that God, under the name of wis­ 4. God calls by His providences. dom, calls to men to come to Him and be saved. Illustration'. An officer of my church told Sin is rebellion, lawlessness, the most dangerous me he lost a fortune and six children. On the thing in the universe. For his own sake God way to the cemetery with the sixth casket his calls man to turn from sin. How many ways heart broke and he accepted Christ. God calls. Illustration: The death of a mother has stop­ 1. Through reason. The very nature of all ped the wandering feet of many a wayward boy sin is the gratification of desires against the or girl. protest of the moral reason. Illustration: The death of a godly wife has The higher reason stands forever with God been the voice of God to many a husband on against all sin. The reason faithfully warns the way to hell. and pleads against all unrighteousness. 5. God calls by the means of grace. 2. God calls by our conscience—“the voice Church services, open-air services, prayer, song. 10 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE Illustration: In Southport, England, a rector falling houses half dressed and fell on the streets of the English Church told me that his wife and screamed and cried to God. Men that died from drink and his bishop had warned said there was no God' cried for mercy. But him for the last time to stop his drunkenness. screams of terror from wicked lips are not or he would be expelled from the ministry. In prayer and God does not answer. “I will mock disgrace and despair he was on the way to the when your fear cometh!” bay to drown himself. He passed by where the 3. Unanswered prayer. Tom Paine wrote his Salvation Army was holding a street meeting “Age of Reason” and boasted that the infamous and singing, “Come to Jesus.” He threw up book had destroyed the Bible, and in fifty years his hands and cried, “O Jesus, I come,” and he whoever desire to see a copy of it would have was saved. He came to my meeting and was to go to a museum and pay 25c to see an ex­ sanctified. In how many ways God calls the ploded relic of an exploded superstition. When sinner ready to perish. he came to die he did not dare to be left alone. II. M en often t u r n a deaf ear to t h e se He declared that the Devil inspired his book, BLESSED CALLS. and he kept crying for days: “O Christ, have They love the delights of sin and are bent mercy on my soul,”—a mercy he never found! on having them. There comes a time when prayers for mercy go They suborn reason to justify their insane unanswered. “Then will they call upon me, . conduct. but I will not answer. They will seek me dili­ They stifle conscience to make it cease its gently ; but they will not find me.” chidings. 4. “They shall eat the fruit of their own way.” They will not hear the Word of God. “Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also They brace up against all admonitions of reap.” Illustration: Robespierre, who sent so providence. many to the guillotine in the Franch Revolution, They turn their back upon all means of had his own head chopped of by the same means. grace. Illustration: When Charles I, who had de­ They virtually say, “Who is God that I stroyed Strafford, was about to be beheaded, he should serve Him?” said, “I basely ratified an unjust sentence and the “They set at nought all my counsels and similar injustice I am now to undergo is a would none of my reproof I” sensible retribution for the punishment I in­ III. N otice t h e e n d oe su c h a course of co n­ flicted on an innocent man.” d u c t. Illustration: Lord Jefferies imprisoned a mul­ No earthly king would suffer himself to be titude of good and innocent people in London continually mocked and derided and disobeyed Tower. He was finally imprisoned in the same by his subjects. How much less will the omnip­ place. The shades of his own victims seemed otent and infinitely holy God? A day will to haunt him. He kept crying to his attendants: come when His forbearance will be at an end. “Keep them off, gentlemen, for God’s sake keep Punishment will then come on apace. them off!” He was “eating the fruit of his 1. Sin always brings calamity. And God said, own way.” So men will reap the fruit of sin “I will laugh at your calamity.” Sin always and rejection of Christ in added torment of sin brought a harvest of retribution upon ancient and conscious rejection by Christ. Israel. God has not changed. He does so yet. The people of San Francisco were pleasure 4. “They shall be filled with their own de­ mad and money mad and desperately wicked. vices.” The sinner says over and over: “I will The papers boasted that the previous Sunday was not have Christ.” In time God says: “Very well, the most wide open and flagrantly wicked Sun­ my Son, leave him alone, he shall not have Thee.” day the city had ever seen. One paper declared: The sinner says: “1 will not be led by the “San Francisco has no use for God.” That Spirit.” Finally God will say: “O Holy Spirit, issue of the paper was not sold before God he shall not insult Thee again; leave him alone appeared upon the scene with an earthquake, and forever.” $600,000,000.00 of property went up in flames! The sinner says: “I want a wicked heart.” 2. “I will mock when your fear c'ometh.” Finally God will say: “O sinner, you may have In San Francisco in 1906, when God destroyed your choice and it will be your eternal damna­ the Lny, godless worldings and defiant unbe­ tion.” lievers and profane blasphemers ran out of their O fellow mortals, before this awful harvest THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 11 of evil comes repent and turn to Christ. Before E. Lips of mercy—“He kissed him.” He ceases to plead and begins to laugh at your 2. The entertainment. calamity and mock at your fears turn to the A. He came home in rags, and his father only Savior who can forgive your sins, give not only clothed him, but adorned you a clean heart and fit you for heaven. Do .him (vs. 22). B. He came home hungry, and his father it and do it now. not only fed him, but feasted him T H E M E —TH E PRODIGAL SON (vs. 23). By R. J. S m e lt ze r . C. The way in which the father received T ex t : Luke 15:11-32. and entertained him not only brought I. T h e state of t h e s in n e r . rejoicing to the returned prodigal, but 1. A sinful state is a state of departure and to all in the house. distance from God (vs. 13). THEME—HEAVEN 2. A sinful state is a spending state (vs. 13). 3. A sinful state is wanting state (vs. 14). By R. J. S m eltzer 4. A sinful state is a vile servile state (vs. 15). T e x t : Heb. 12:23. 5. A sinful state is a state of perpetual dis­ I ntroduction : Heaven is used in the Scriptures satisfaction (vs. 15). in three senses. 6. A sinful state is a state which cannot 1. The aerial or atmospheric heaven, where expect help from any creature (vs. 16). the birds fly, the winds blow, and the rain 7. A sinful state is a state of death (vs. 24). is formed. 8. A sinful state is a lost state (vs. 24, 32). 2. The heaven or firmament, the place of the 0. A sinful state is a state of madness and sun, moon and stars. frenzy (vs. 17). 3. The heaven of heavens, or third heaven, II. N otice t h e occasion of h is b e t u r n and which is the place of God’s residence, the REPENTANCE. dwelling of the angels and the home of 1. His affliction (vs. 14-17). the blessed. 2. He considers his condition (vs. 17). I. H eaven beg ins on e a r t h . A. He considered how bad his condition 1. Heaven is both a condition and a plau. was. “I perish with hunger.” A. Heaven a condition (Luke 17:21; Rom. B. He considered how much better it 14:17; Luke 10:20. might be made if he would return B. We hold our citizenship in heaven (Heb. (vs. 17). 11:13; 1 Peter 2:11). (1). In our Father’s house there is (a) “Stranger and pilgrim,”—Greek, Par- bread for all. ep-id-ay-mos, an alien, a resident for­ (2). There is enough and to spare. eigner. (3). Even the hired servants in God’s C. The citizen of heaven is different: family are well provided for. a. In appearance. III. His PURPOSE. b. In clothing. 1. He determined what to do. “I will arise c. In speech. Speaks the language of Ca­ and go.” naan. Illustration: The Swedish man 2. He determined to confess his sin and saving in a Russian service, “Me know folly. Jesus, you know Jesus. Shake” (Phil. A. "1 have sinned.” 3:20). B. He would take the load upon him­ d. In our calling. self. “1 have sinned against— e. Ii} our desires. C. He would judge and condemn him­ f. In our objective. self. “I am no more worthy— D. Heaven is a place. D. However he would sue for admi.sion a. A commodious place. into the family. b. A permanent place. IV. T h e r ec eptio n and entertainment w h ic h c. A place of employment. h is f a t h e r gave h i m . d. A place of happy reunion. 1. The great love and affection with which (1). Reunion of blood relation. his father received him. (2). Reunion of all blood washed and re­ A. Eyes of mercy—“Saw him a great deemed. way off.” II. Two WAYS OF GOING TO HEAVEN. B. Bowels of mercy—“He had compas­ 1. Death. sion.” 2. Translation. C. Feet of mercy—‘‘He ran.” III. N ot EVERYBODY THAT DIES IS GOING TO D. Arms of mercy—“He fell on his neck.” HEAVEN. 12 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE

THEME—THE GREAT DAY VI. A GREAT DAY BECAUSE THERE WILL BE 4 By George Harper. GREAT SEPARATION. T e x t s: Rev. 6:17; Jude 1:6. 1. The wheat and chaff (Matt. 3:12). I. I ntroduction . 2. The wheat and tares (Matt. 13:24-31). 1. There are some days which were great 3. Parable net cast into the sea (Matt. 13: days in my life—the day God saved me, 47). the day God sanctified me and the day 4. Sheep and goats (Matt. 25). I was ordained; but the day I stand be­ 5. At sinking of the Titanic there was a fore God at the Judgment will be the separation. greatest of all days. Illustrations: 2. In the Bible God tells of a great wicked­ s A slave family of four—father, mother, ness, a great salvation, a great joy and son and daughter—sold at auction and a great wrath. each taken to a different part of the II. T h e J u d g m e n t D a y w il l be a great day country. Describe a separation at a BECAUSE THERE WILL BE A GREAT PRAYER- funeral. MEETING. 1. Abraham praying for Sodom, Jacob at THEME—THE IMPORTANCE OF SOUL Peniel and Daniel for three weeks, were WINNING great prayermeetings. By G. H ow ard R o w e . 2. The prayermeeting in Gethsemane and I. S o u l w in n in g w il l h a st e n C h r ist ’s re­ the prayermeeting of the disciples where t u r n . they prayed and the place was shaken Mission of Church (Matt. 28:19-20). was a great prayermeeting, but John Prepares the bride (Rev. 19:7). said they cried for the rocks and the A witness to world (Matt. 24:14). mountains to hide them from God. II. S o u l w in n in g sh o u l d t h e n be desire of 3. Illustration: C h u r c h (Rom. 10:1). Millions crying, screaming and praying Salvation of men, one and only program but their prayers are too late. of the Church. III. A great day "Because t h e re w il l be a Includes whole world. Missionary spirit GREAT EXAMINATION. needed. 1. The books will be opened. Will raise the budget. Inspire loyalty. 2. We will all give an account. III. S o u l w in n in g in c l u d e s . 3. When in school, I passed examinations, 1. Vision and purpose (Prov. 29:18; 11:30). and when called into the army, I passed 2. Soul travail (Isa. 66). an examination, but this examination will 3. Unity in prayer in the church (Matt. be the greatest of all. 18:19). IV. I t WILL BE A GREAT DAY BECAUSE OF THE 4. Prayer and fasting by the individual as GREAT SECRETS THAT WILL BE REVEALED. well as church (Matt. 17:21). 1. Nothing covered that will not be re­ IV. S o u l w in n in g w il l h a st e n C h r ist ’s r e ­ vealed. t u r n . 2. God will bring every work into judg­ 1. Carry a burden for souls. ment with every secret thing. 2. Be a soul winner. 3. If man can make an X-ray, what can 3. Be at unity and harmony w'ith my God do? brethren in church. 4. If man can make a phonograph to re­ produce the human voice, don’t you think To carry on church’s program—Missions, God can reveal all the curses and un­ budget, tithing, revivals. godly stories told in secret? Woe to them that are at ease in Zion 5. If man can make a moving picture, I (Amos 6:1). believe God could reproduce ten of the THEME—THE WIDE AND NARROW most awful scenes of the human life and GATES show them like a movie in action at the By G. H ow ard R o w e . Judgment. T e x t : Matt. 7:13, 14. V. T h e J u d g m e n t D ay w il l be a great day I. T h e r e is a w a y th a t se e m e t h r ig h t BECAUSE OF THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENTS. (Prov. 14:12; 12:15). 1. Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, The only way is God’s way. His way is Lord. best. 2. The parable of the ten virgins shows His w'ay is a narrow way. that five out of ten were disappointed. A gate is an entrance to a way. THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 13

II. W ide is t h e gate and broad is t h e w a y — 8. There is sin in the regenerate. Leadeth to destruction. 9. The Bible and all church creeds say so. 1. The Wide Gate 10. Entire sanctification eradicates original or Easy of access. Multitudes going. inbred sin. Many incentives. 11. Then there is (1) Purity. (2) Liberty. (3) All classes going. Power. 2. The Broad Way 12. How to obtain it. Way of fast company. 13. Those who refuse. Way of careless. Illustration: See Rev. 21:8. A black list Way of ungodly. that are going down to hell, headed by III. S trait is th e gate and n ar r o w is t h e w ay the fearful (cowards) and the unbelieving. -—Leadeth unto life. 1. The strait gate. THEME—ETERNITY Not so easy of access. Few going. Against the tide. By C. E. C ornell Must pick your crowd. T e x t : “Forever and ever” (Rev. 22:5). 2. The Narrow Way. 1. Eternity, serious to contemplate. Way of good company. 2. How long is eternity? Way of holiness. Character. Illustration: If all space could be filled with Way of eternal life. water, and it would require a thousand years IV. E nter y e ...... to annihilate one drop, to dispose of the whole Luke says, strive (agonize) to enter. one drop at a time, would be only the morn­ Many will seek to enter in and shall not ing of eternity. be able. Door shut (Luke 13:24). Immensity, is boundless space. Children of kingdom cast out (Matt. 8:11, Eternity, is boundless duration. 12). 3. The immortal spirit.—Its relation to eternity. 4. The foolishness of men to choose temporal things. THEME—THE SANCTIFICATION Most men are choosing the things of time. By C. E. C ornell 5. The question of all questions. T e x t : Heb. 12:14. (R.V.) Where will you spend eternity? 1. Sanctification used so frequently throughout the Scriptures is from the Greek word Hagiadzoo. THEME—THE TRIUMPHANT DEATH 2. The word holiness is also frequently used. OF A HOLY MAN It is from the Greek word Hagiasma. By C. E. C ornell These two words—Hagaidzoo and Hagiasma, T e x t : Acts 7:60. are precisely synonymous and mean whole- I. S t e p h e n , t h e fir st m a r ty r . ness-soundness; soul-soundness, soul-healing 1. His symmetrical Christian character. 3. Another common word throughout the Scrip­ 2. Compare him with Moses. tures is perfection. It is from the Latin word Illustration: See tract, “Almost a Martyr.” perfectus, per-through, facere-to make; To (Free Tract Society, Los Angeles, Calif.). make through and through, to finish, to com­ II. H o lin ess in its relatio n to character. plete. 1. The great central idea of Christianity. 4. The God of the Bible loves holiness and 2. A command. hates sin. The Devil of the Bible loves sin 3. A necessity. and hates holiness. 4. Heaven’s gates barred against the unholy. 5. Sin in the soul is like fever in the blood, it III. T h e h o l y d ie w e l l . indicates an unhealthy condition. 1. They die well because they live well. 6. Regeneration, its significance. Regeneration 2. They die well because they believe the changes our inward nature a work by which Bible. the spiritual life is infused into the soul. Illustration: Unbelief kept the children of Israel 7. Evidences of regeneration. out of Canaan. (a) Does not commit sin. IV. T h o se w h o died in t r iu m p h . (b) Loves the salvation of souls. 1. John Wesley. (c) Separate from the world. 2. John Fletcher. (d) Follows the Spirit. 3. Alfred Cookman. (e) Desires holiness—follows after. 4. S. A. Keene. 14 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE THEME-SIX THINGS THAT GOD SAYS lose out in the midst of a revival. Keep at the HE W ILL DO front. By C. E. C o rnell More light spells more responsibility—stir up your ability and respond to the light . . Hell T e x t : Ezek. 36:24-29. is awful dark. I. S eparateness. “I will take you from among the heathen.” Steam under pressure without a vent, will “Then” as pointing to Pentecost. blow off—so will the old man. Needed . . the The water symbol. safety valve of sanctification. There are other material symbols used, oil, W'heresoever, the carcass is, there will the fire, wind, air. eagles be gathered together.—Who hangs around Water more frequent. Water suggests the your house? You may be a dead one. idea of plentitude. Spiders seek dark corners .... so do unclean “Showers of blessing.” men .... and position seekers. “Rivers of Waters.” Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth, “The windows of heaven opened.” —A touch is enough to set Omnipotence in action. II. C o m plet e c lea n sin g . —F. B. Meyer. “Ye shall be clean.” You can put powder on, but the wrinkles may Regeneration, partial cleansing, initial, in­ be underneath—So is the silvery tongue and a complete. wicked heart. The Pentecostal baptism, complete. THEME—“NEGLECT” Illustration: Dr. Keene says: “The repetition of the adjective ‘clean’ means perfectly clean. By W. D. S iie l o r . It is an idiom of the original Hebrew, that T e x t : Hebrews 2 :3 . when a word of the same kind, such as a noun, N—Nature of Neglect. verb or adjective is repeated in the same con­ E—Ease of Neglect. struction, it expresses the idea of completeness; G—Growth of Neglect. so that the force of the text is, ‘cleansing, I L—Levity of Neglect. will cleanse you’ or ‘Ye shall be thoroughly E—Expense of Neglect. •• clean.’ The little word ‘all’ is what grammarians C—Crime of Neglect. designate the final all, which means the last, T—Termination of Neglect. the end, conveying the idea of finished, the THEME—“THE END last touch.” By W. D. S iie l o r . i u ' R e n e w in g . “I will put my Spirit within you.” T e x t: 24:14. Refreshing. I. S o m e t h in g s t h a t h a v e n o e n d : Enlargement. God. Eternity. Man. Influence. Refinement. II. T h in g s t h a t w il l e n d : IV. E m p o w e r in g . 1. Earthly treasures; viz: money, fame, “I will cause you to walk in my statutes.” pleasure, etc. Activities. 2. False hopes; viz: Eddyism, Russeiiism, Dispositions. churchism, etc. Adversities—environments. 3. Probation; opportunity for finding God V. M aterial pr o sper ity . will end. “I will call for the- corn, and will increase A. Time; nothing of such infinite value to it, etc.” man as time; yet “time shall be no more!” Righteousness is both spiritual and materi­ III. Q u ee n E lizabeth ’s d y in g w ords w er e “M il ­ ally advantageous. lio n s OF MONEY FOR A MOMENT OF TIME!” God is back of nature. “SEEKING AND FINDING GOD” VI. No r epr o ac h . “Ye shall receive no more reproach.” By W. D. S iiel o r . You will favorably impress those about you. T e x t : Isaiah 5 5 :6, 7. You will gain their confidence. 1. G od m a y be f o u n d o f m a n : “ H e m a y be f o u n d !” SENTENCE SERMONS Also, God may not be found; “While he By G. H ow ard R o w e . may be found!” Compare Gen. 6 :3 . The only way to stop a runaway horse is I. G od m a y be f o u n d o f m a n : “H e m a y be to catch him—the Devil cannot stop a sanctified f o u n d !” man who is running. II. G od is f o u n d b y “ s e e k in g :” “ S e e k y e David slid back because he remained home t h e L o r d !” when the battle was raging hot . . . You may “Seek and ye shall find.” THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE IS

“In the day ye seek for me with all your 5. Personality was defeated—Christ defeat­ heart I will be found.” ed Satan in wilderness. III. G od, at t im e s is n ear t h e s in n e r ; "w h il e III. S h e k in a h glory spiritualized . HE IS NEAR.” 1. Nature obeyed the Spirit—Sound of wind. Mention some of these times. 2. Government obeyed the Spirit—Paul and IV. G od DEMANDS ACTION ON THE PART OF MAN; Silas walk out. 1. “Let him forsake his way”—sinful way; 3. Learning obeyed the Spirit—Peter’s first unclean way; wrong way. sermon. The way of death; -way to hell. 4. Religion obeyed the Spirit—“What, must • 2. “Let him forsake his thoughts.” I do.” “Good enough”—forsake it! 5. Personalities obeyed the Spirit—Paul con­ “I’m honest”—forsake it! verted. “Doing my best”—forsake it! IV. S h e k in a h glory t r iu m p h a n t . 3. “Let him return unto God!” 1. Nature will be conquered—Resurrection. God only can save him. 2. Governments will be conquered—Every kingdom shall fall. V. G od is m e r c if u l and fo r g iv in g ;” 3. Learning will be conquered—Every eye “Will have mercy!” shall see. “Will abundantly pardon!” 4. Religion will be conquered—Every knee THEME—THE PEOPLE WHO ARE shall bow. BLESSED 5. Personality will be conquered—Satan Bound. H e r t e n st e in . By R. W. V. T h e “ glory.” T ex t : “Lo, the angel of the Lord came upon 1. Is our defense. them” (Luke 2 :9). 2. Our salvation. I. They were shepherds—“Shepherds,” not 3. Our life. hirelings. 4. Our hope. II. They were at their job—“Abiding in the field.” Others that night were in the city at the SERMON SEED reunions—Unfaithful never get blessed. By T . M. A nderson *§ III. They were careful of their trust—“keeping » II watch.” IV. They did not run away in a dark hour—“by T ex t: '‘Keep yourselves in the love of & night.” (Jude 21). V. To this class of men and women God re­ I. A w a r n in g to a ll b y t h e ex a m pl e of veals Himself—- th o se w h o did n o t k e e p in love of G od. 1. The True. 1. Some who were once saved were after­ 2. The Faithful. ward destroyed (Verse 5). In this verse 3. The Careful. Jude refers to Israel’s state after they 4. The Determined. failed to go into the land because of un­ THEME—SHEKINAH GLORY belief. Thus regenerated persons can By R. W. H e r t e n st e in . incur the anger of God and forfeit their state and standing because they fail to T e x t : Isa. 10:16. believe for holiness—which these things I. S h e k in a h glory materialized . are a figure. 1. Nature was subdued—Moses Rod. 2. We are warned by the example of angels 2. Governments were subdued—King Pha­ who kept not their first estate (Verse 6). raoh. If such personalities as these can lose 3. Education was subdued—Magicians. their place in the love of God, let us be 4. Religion was subdued—Magicians. warned of the power of sin. Let us 5. Personality was subdued—Pharaoh. watch ourselves. II. S h e k in a h glory in ca rn a ted . 3. The inhabitants of Sodom and the cities 1. Nature was defeated—Jesus healing the of the plains are to us an example of body. the wrath of God. All sinners have a 2. Governments were defeated—“Mob fell place in the love of God in that He loves back.” them with the love of pity and offers to 3. Education was defeated—Christ at twelve. forgive them of sins. But sinners can 4. Religion was defeated—“Except your so sin as to merit wrath rather than righteousness exceed,” mercy (verse 7). 16 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE

II. T h e w a y to k ee p in t h e love of G od. presence of His glory with exceeding joy 1. Building yourself up on your most holy (Verse 24). faith (Verse 20). T e x t : “Do not err, my beloved brethren” (a) To build up ourselves means to add (Jas. 1:16). useful material. Become rich in faith; 1. Do not err regarding the value of trial of your abounding in love; strong in patience. faith (Verses 2-4). In a word, every grace belonging to 2. Do not err while enduring temptation (Verses a holy life must be developed. God 12-15). is not pleased with any who do not 3. Do not err concerning the source of all that advance. is good and all that is perfect. This means (b) !To build one must reject all that all good for this life and for spiritual life. would pull down. Persons whose God gives all. The Devil gives nothing good conversation is not holy can destroy (Verse 17). our souls. Refuse them even if we 4. Do not err regarding the importance of laying make them angry or critical. Litera­ apart the remains of sin in the heart after ture that does not edify can harm regeneration (Verses 18-21). us. The Movie with its curse is 5. Do not err by being a hearer and not a doer refused. of the Word (Verses 22-25). 2. Praying in the Holy Ghost (Verse 20). 6. Do not err in the matter of vain religion and To pray delights the Lord. To neglect pure religion. Each has its proof (Verses prayer grieves Him. Prayer is petition 26, 27). for needed grace. It is intercession for T e x t: This is the word which by the gospel is others. It is an act of worship. It is preached unto you" (Pet. 1:25). a kind of conference with God. The Note that it is the enduring or eternal Word Spirit is necessary to help in prayer. If which is preached. See text. Carry this thought all Christians will heed this praying in of the enduring word in the study of the the Spirit none will ever fall. context. 3. Looking for the mercy of our Lord 1. The new birth is the result of the abiding Jesus Christ unto eternal life (Verse 21). Word of God. All flesh is as grass, but he Those , who. expect His return will guard that is born of God will abide forever (See themselves lest they be among the un­ Verses 23, 24). ready. 2. Redemption is by the precious blood of Christ, Those who expect Him give proof of their says this Word of the Gospel. This is more love for Him. To love His appearing enduring than either silver or gold (See verses so pleases Him that we remain in His 18, 19). These things are corruptible, but love. the blood- cure for sin is eternal. 4. Others save (Verses 22, 23). 3. This word says, “be ye holy, because I am God is not pleased with those who care holy.” Holiness is as eternal as God because not for others who are lost. it is what God is. God is what He is in all (a) In saving others have compassion; His graces because He is holy. Thus to be and discriminate with care as how holy is to be like Him in graces. Such a best to approach them (Verse 22). truth is eternal. It shall never be changed Do not be rough or unwise. Be lov­ (Verses 14-17). ing with His lost sheep. 4. The truth of pure love for the brethren is (b) Others save with fear. Like pulling enduring. It must ever be the gospel (Verse them out of the fire. One must 2 2 ). watch lest he be burned. We can­ 5. The hope of the resurrection is enduring be­ not be too careful of ourselves while cause God has raised Jesus from the dead as we try to save others. Many preach­ a guarantee (Verses 3:20, 21). ers have gone down while they were 6. The hope of eternal reward is enduring be­ conducting salvation meetings. Holy cause God is keeping His people by divine persons are often led to compromise power through faith that they may have the in their efforts to save their loved incorruptible inheritance (Verses 4, 5). ones. III. T h e great a ssurance w e h a ve fro m h i m . ILLUSTRATION 1. He is able to keep you from falling. By L. E. Show God will do His part. Let us be sure They say it takes 500 tons of Carnotite ore to do ours. to yield one gram of radium. In this process 2. He will present you faultless before the is used 500 tons of chemicals, 1000 tons of coal, THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 17 10,000 tons of distilled water. The final product it throws off part of itself penetrates these parts being pure radium bromide, of a bulk sufficient so that they will shine in the dark. to half fill an ordinary thimble, worth $75,000.00 How like God’s salvation, just a few moments per gram. Although radium is of such immense value, in the presence of God, in confession and prayer yet it is so powerful that it is put on the hands and faith, and we come out “partakers of the and figures of a $1.50 watch, so you can see the divine nature” and will shine as “lights of the time in the dark. The secret is that these hands world” in the midst of a crooked and perverse and dials are simply brought into the presence nation” and in sin’s darkest night until people of this radium, under a certain treatment when can see Jesus and the way to God. THEMES, TEXTS AND SUGGESTIONS By D . S. C orlett

FOR THE CHRISTMAS SERMON 1. The darkness of ignorance. 2. The darkness of sin. T h e m e : The Message of Christmas. T e x t : 3. The darkness of sorrow. “For unto you is born this day in the city of 4. They were “sitting” in darkness denoting David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke inactivity. 2 : 14 > • T h e m e : The Word in the World. T ex t : II. T h e daw n or day spr in g . “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among “Dayspring” is the old English word for us” (John 1:14). sunrising. Hence this was the sunrising of T h e m e : The Greatest Christmas Gift. T e x t : a new era for the world. “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift” Note this “Dayspring:" (2 Cor. 9:15). 1. Is of heavenly origin—“from on high.” T h e m e : The Meaning of Christmas. T e x t : 2. Has come to us. Not shining from on “For even the Son of Man came not to be min­ high upon us, but “hath visited us.” istered unto, but to minister, and to give his Came to be one of us, to live among us. life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). 3. He brings light—“To give light.” T h e m e : The Joy Christmas Brings. T e x t : (a) Light for the darkness of ignorance. “For behold I bring you good tidings of great (b) Light for the darkness of sin. joy” (Luke 2:10). (c) Light for the darkness of sorrow. T h e m e : The Missionary Message of Christ­ III. H e is a D irecting or G u id in g L ig h t . mas. T e x t : “Good tidings of great joy, which “To guide our feet into the ways of peace.” shall be to ALL people” (Luke 2:10). 1. With Him there is life and activity in­ T h e m e : The Saving Name. T e x t : “Thou stead of “sitting in darkness and the shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his shadow of death.” people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). 2. His coming brings “peace,” and His paths T h e m e : The First Christmas Tragedy—No are the ways of peace. Room for Christ. T ex t : “Because there was 3. His light cheers, comforts, directs and no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). guides His people. THEME—THE DAY STAR T e x t : “Whereby the dayspring from on high THEME—THE GLAD TIDINGS OF hath visited us, to give light to them CHRISTMAS that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way T ex t: ‘‘Fen, behold, I bring you good tidings of of peace” (Luke 1:78-79). great joy.” I. T h e c o nd itio n or t h e w orld at t h e t im e 1. Tidings of Joy “great joy” (Isa. 12:2- op C h r ist ’s b ir t h . 3; 61:3; 1 Peter 1:6-8). “Sitting in Darkness.” There had been no 2. Tidings of Peace—“Peace on Earth” prophetic utterances to Israel for over four (Luke 1:78-79; John 14:27; Romans hundred years. They were in the throes 5:1). of a religious controversy, but spiritually 3. Tidings of Salvation—“A Saviour, which they were in darkness when Christ came. is Christ the Lord” (Titus 2:11-14; 1 This was evidenced by Timothy 1:15'). 18 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE THEME—THE MAGIC OF CHRIST’S He must be born within the heart, BIRTH Before He finds His throne, T e x t : “To give light to them that sit in dark­ And brings the day of love and good, ness” (Luke 1:79). The reign of Christ-like brotherhood. An artist once drew a picture of a wintry —M ary T. L a t h r o p. twilight, the trees heavily laden with snow, and a dreary, dark house, lonely and desolate, in BABE OF BETHLEHEM the midst of the storm. It was a sad picture Christ has elevated the ideals of mankind from indeed. Then, with a quick stroke of yellow the earthly to the heavenly, from the selfish to crayon, he put a light in one window. The self-sacrifice, from sinfulness to holiness, from effect was magical. The entire scene was trans­ war to peace. He changed the date of the formed into a vision of comfort and good cheer. world’s history, beginning a new reckoning of The birth of Christ was just such a light to a years. “B. C.” and “A. D.” have the pre­ dark world.—S elected. eminence over “In the beginning.” He has put his stamp upon history, poetry, art, literature, THE FIRST CHRISTMAS SERVICE reforms and civilization for all the years of time The first Christmas service was not held in and the cycles of eternity. Why such influences a great cathedral or temple; but in the temple exerted by the Son of God? Because he was of God’s great “out of doors.” “God manifested in the flesh,” therefore great The time of the first Christmas service, was names were given him—The Prince of Peace, in the night; but the temple was lighted with Immanuel, the Mighty' God, the Everlasting the “glory of the Lord shining round about them.” Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, Savior and Re­ The music of the first Christmas service was deemer of men, Conqueror and Intercessor. But furnished by a “multitude of the heavenly host none are sweeter than the Babe of Bethlehem praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the and the Lamb of God.”—S elected. highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” PASTORAL CHRISTMAS GREETINGS The preacher of the first Christmas service Many pastors have made a practice of sending was' the angel who said, “Fear not.” special pastoral Christmas greetings to each mem­ The congregation of the first Christmas service ber and friend in their congregation. This has was “The shepherds abiding in the field, keeping proven to be a very satisfactory way to keep watch over their flock by night.” the members and friends interested in the prog­ The Message of the first Christmas service was ress of the church. A word of cheer from their a message of salvation, “For unto you is born leader, the pastor, at this particular season of this day in the city of David a Saviour, which the year, when everybody is sending gifts and is Christ the Lord.” greetings to their loved ones and friends brings The First Christmas Service was fruitful, and a closer relationship between pastor and people. accomplished what all services should aim to If you have never done this, pastor, make your accomplish—“Let us now go even unto Beth­ plans to do so this year. You will find that our lehem, and see .. . . and they made haste, and Nazarene Publishing House, 2923 Troost Avenue, found.” Kansas City, Mo., carries a very complete line of special Christmas features for the use of our THERE IS NO “IF” IN CHRISTMAS busy pastors, which includes: special Christmas When preaching a Christmas sermon, the Rev. letter heads; special holiday greetings in letter Daniel H. Martin brought out a striking fact form or they will print your own letter on these that has escaped many. He called attention to letter heads at a moderate price; Christmas greet­ what the shepherds in the field said to one an­ ing cards, specially prepared for pastors and lead­ other after the angel had brought them definite ers with ample space to have your name printed word about the birth of a “Saviour who is Christ or written, thus making it a personal message. All the Lord.” They did not say, “Let us go and of these are very moderately priced and are see if this thing is come to pass.” They said, carried especially for the use of our pastors and ;‘Let us go and see this that is come to pass.” people. The essential thing is to get your order What a world of difference between the two ways in early so it will not be delayed in the Christ­ of taking God’s word.—S elected. mas Mail Rush, but that you will have it in BORN IN ME plenty of time to use for Christmas. ’Tis not enough that Christ was born A little colored boy, having watched his old Beneath the star that shone, njammy’s success in bleaching clothes, covered And earth was set that morn his face with soapsuds, and lay down on the Within a golden zone. lawn in the hot sun with the hope of turning THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 10 white. It was a very uncomfortable and dis­ “There remaineth yet very much land to be appointed- boy whom his mother admonished a possessed” (Josh. 13:1). couple of hours later. “Lan’s sake, Chile! Don’t T h e m e : The Passing of the Old Year. T e x t : you know you can’t make white folks out of “Ye shall henceforth return no more that way” yourself by bleaching from the outside?” she (Deut. 17:16). asked. And yet that is an experience the world has never ceased trying. But Christianity is not WATCH NIGHT SERVICES a change wrought from the outside but from “Watch-Night”—the last night in the old within. This is a truth that needs new emphasis year can be used with great profit in a service in our day. This Christmas time is a good time of prayer and praise. Plan early for it. Arrange to give it new emphasis; for the Chritmas a program, and secure your speakers, as you Christ saves from without and within.—S elected. will no doubt wish to have more than one, in advance in order to make proper announcement A little Jewish girl from the East Side of New of the service. York, who secured work in a store during the Praise should be a great part in this service. holiday season, met with an accident, and was When one considers the wonderful blessings of ministered to in her sufferings by a trained a passing year, he desires to praise God. nurse. She looked appealingly into the face of Prayer should have a prominent place also. the nurse, amf asked incredulously. “Is it true While others are shooting the New Year in, or that you are a Christian?” Upon being answered giving vent to their feelings in some useless man­ in the affirmative, she replied, “You are so ner; how appropriate it is that God’s people polite and gentle, I didn’t think you could be; spend this time on their knees in prayer. but then the only Christians I’ve seen are MAKING WATCH NIGHT A CHURCH Christmas shoppers.”—S elected. NIGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR SERMON The writer once conducted a watch-night serv­ ice, in which the heads of each department of T h e m e : Trust For the New Year. T ex t : the church had part. The Sunday school super­ “Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? intendent told of the blessings of God upon the or, What shall we drink? or, wherewithal shall Sunday school for the past year, and outlined we be clothed? For your heavenly Father his plans for the coming year. The president knoweth that ye have need of these things” of thq N. Y. P. S., president of the W. M. S. or (Matt. 6:31-32). other auxiliary departments of the church each T h e m e : Strength For Our Days. T e x t : “As had part in the program, stating their goals and thy days, so shall thy strength be” (Deut 33:25). plans. Thus each department of your church T h e m e : The Venture of Faith. T e x t : “For is brought before the entire congregation present; ye have not passed this way heretofore” (Josh. showing the progress of the past year and the 3:4). prospects for the future. T h e m e : The New Year Crowned. T ex t : “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness” REDEEMING THE TIME (Psa. 65:11). Queen Charlotte said: “I am always quarrelling T h e m e : The Secret of a Happy New Year. with time. It is so short to do anything, but T e x t : “If they obey and serve him, they shall so long to do nothing.” spend their days in prosperity, and their years Cotton Mather, said of a visitor who had in pleasure” (Job 36:11). needlessly occupied his time, “I had rather given T h e m e : Thfe Right Use of the Passing Years. him a handful of money than have been kept T e x t : “S o teach us to number our days that we thus long out of my study.” may apply our hearts unto wisdom” (Psa. 90:12). Ignatius, when he heard a clock strike, said, T h e m e : A New Year’s Prayer. T e x t : “Hold “Now I have one more hour to answer for.” up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps “Bind together your spare hours by the cord slip not” (Psa. 17:5). of some definite purpose, and you know not T h e m e : Renewed Though Decaying. T ex t : how much you may accomplish”—W m . M. T ay ­ “But though the outward man perish, yet the lor, D. D. inward man is renewed day by day” (2 Cor. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with 4:17). your neighbors, and let every year find you a T h e m e : The Changing Years and The Un­ better man”—F r a n k l in . changing Christ. T e x t : “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). HOW NAPOLEON USED TIME T h e m e : The Comfort of the Past and the Abbott in his life of Napoleon tells of a time Challenge of the Future. T e x t : (1) “Hitherto when in his early career, Napoleon was quar­ hath the Lord helped us” (1 Sam. 7:12). (2) tered in the house of a barber at Auxonne. Some 2U THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE spent their time coquetting with the barber’s is an old route to heaven, beginning at the pretty wife; he was always at his books, study­ foot of the cross.”—“B ob” S h u l e r . ing hard. Years later, when he w;as commander of the army, on the way to Marengo he stopped O n G od’s S ide at the door of the barber’s shop, and asked his former hostess if she remembered a young officer “The voice of the majority is not always the by the name of Bonaparte who was once quar­ voice of God. One man and God have often tered in her family. “Indeed I do,” was her changed the course of history and the map of pettish reply, “and a very disagreeable inmate an empire. . . . John Wesley said, ‘the best of he was. He was always shut up in his room; or, all is, G od is with us.’ He could say that be­ if he walked out, he never condescended to speak cause he knew that he was with God. And to anyone.” “Ah, my good woman,” Napoleon Lincoln, was it not he, who said, “I am not rejoined, ‘‘had I passed my time as you wished concerned whether God is on our side, but I to have me, I should not now have been in am concerned whether we are on God’s side? command of the army of Italy.” When man forms partnership with God, he is on FROM A PREACHER’S SCRAP BOOK the side of the winning party.” B e Y o urself “If God wanted two people to pray alike or “We are apt to think concerning our every­ be alike, He would have made them alike. Never day trials that they are of too homely a sort let the Devil trouble you because you do not to work out anything beautiful in our character, pray or testify like some one else. Be yourself.” but they are not more homely than the chisel in the hands of the sculptor.” “Did God make man out of a monkey or did man make a monkey out of himself?” “The only way to learn strong faith is to en­ dure great trials. I have learned my faith by “Where Christian Perfection is not strongly standing firm amid severe testings.”—G eorge ind explicitly preached, there is seldom any re­ M u lle r . markable blessing from God”—J o h n W e sl e y . B el iev ing H is W ord Man’s highest wisdom is in understanding One day when Napoleon was reviewing troops, fvhat the will'of the Lord is”—J. H. S m i t h . the bridle of his horse slipped from his hand and his horse galloped off. A private soldier “God’s will for us, by us, and through us is ran, and laying hold of the bridle brought back jreater and better than anything we can will the horse to the emperor’s hand, when he said, or God’s cause or for ourselves. Hence, our “Well done, captain.” iwn enterprise or our ambitions, even when we “Of what regiment, sir?” inquired the soldier. lave truly sanctified hearts, will not lift us so “Of the guards,” answered Napoleon, pleased ligh, nor carry us so far, nor do so much for with his instant belief in his word. urselves or for others, as will the apprehending The emperor rode away, but the soldier threw f God’s own will for us”—J. H. S m it h . down his musket, and though he had no epaulets on his shoulders, no sword by his side nor any T h e O ld T im e R eligion N eeded other mark of his advancement than the word “It’s the old, old day of a world gone pell- of the emperor, he ran and joined the staff of lell to the Devil, a worid that will never and commanding officers. in never be saved except by the old, old cross. They laughed at him, and said, “What have . . The fires of hell are old. The sin of man you to do here?” old. The helplessness of the human heart to He replied, “I am captain of the guards.” eanse itself is old. The pitiful weakness of the They were amazed, but he said, “The emperor esh, human flesh, flesh under which the white said so, and therefore I am.” ot furnace of appetite and passion burns, is And he was. 1 old, old weakness. Thank God, the Gospel T h in g s to F orget also old. The Christ, the Cross, the empty “If you would increase happiness forget your imb, the fountain filled with blood—yes, glory neighbor’s faults. Forget all the slander you i God, they are old, as old as sin. It is an ever heard. Forget the fault-finding and give d way to hell, starting from the garden. It but little thought to the cause which provoked THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 21 it. Forget the peculiarities of your friends, and “Faith is to believe, what we do not see, and only remember the good points which make you the reward of this faith is to see what we be­ fond of them. Forget all personal quarrels or lieve.”— S t . A u g u s t in e . history you may have heard by accident, and which if repeated, would seem worse than they are. Blot out as far as possible all disagreeables “Worse than dancing, playing cards, or theater­ of life. They will come, but will only grow going: to have light and then sit down and do larger when you remember them, and the con­ nothing.” stant thought of the acts of meanness—or worse still, malice will tend to make you more familiar “A dozen whole-hearted Christians can do with them. Start out with a clean sheet today, more for the cause of Christ than a hundred and write upon it only those things which are half-hearted ones.” lovely and lovable.” “No one can master a situation which he is “Carnality allowed will soon be carnality ex­ afraid to face.” cused. Inbred sin excused will lead to the ex­ cusing of actual sin. The excusing of the one is MAKE YOUR PREACHER no worse than the excusing of the other. If we excuse the fruit we will excuse the root, and vice By R. W. H e r t e n st e in . versa.” Nothing is as glorious as for a church and congregation to make a great preacher. Some “In 1725 I resolved to dedicate my life to God; churches make the preacher, some preachers make all my thoughts, words, and actions, being the church. What a combination when the pulpit thoroughly convinced there was no medium, but and pew make each other. Preachers on the that every part of my life must be either a sac­ whole are God-called men. Get behind that rifice to God or to myself—that is, in effect, to man and push him into favor with the people; the Devil.”—J o h n W e sl e y . force out great qualities; make him preach in spite of his handicaps. Too many congregations think the schools and colleges are the only means D epo sit in g o u r L ives to qualify a minister. Feed and house your “When we go to the bank as a djpositor, we preacher well. The horse that wins the race hand our money over to the bankers. We leave has a good stall. Brag on him to the towns­ it in their hands. They use it as they think folk. A bragging church and fair preacher will wise, paying us regular interest. soon fill every pew—while a nagging church God is a great Banker. He asks Christians and a good preacher will soon empty any church. to deposit their lives in His bank, to place all I can’t help but grit my teeth, pray harder and in His hands, and leave it there. He must be toil more when I know a church is behind me. absolutely free to use our lives as He will. It When your check comes regularly, when the must be a real deposit. Then what good care members bring in canned fruit, when the Bible he takes of us, and what wonderful interest he you preach from was the congregation’s present, pays! What peace and joy He returns to us. when your expenses to the General Assembly When we deposit all, He gives His own Life to were remembered, when on your birthday they us in the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. shook hands and gave a love offering, when the He makes our lives useful and safely keeps that best overcoat you ever owned was a Christmas which we commit unto Him against that day.” present, when your wife and children are re­ membered from time to time; brother, you can “When alone, a man’s rights may be his own; but drop on your knees and cry out, “O God, when he meets others, they become relation­ help me to be a better preacher.” ships, and must be adjusted.” The thought has come to me that the next time you want to give a love offering you might send a fifty or a one hundred dollar check to “Dis Darwinian theory don’t worry me none,” your Publishing House; tell the House to credit said Uncle Eben, “Tain’ whar you come frum that amount to your pastor’s account; then tell dat counts, but whar you’s g’ine to.” the preacher to order the books he needs most to the amount of the offering. See how that would “God never lets His children go where they work. Your Publishing House would be benefited, can do nothing for Him. The imprisonment of the pastor would love his congregation more, two Christians in a jail at Philippi means the and you as a congregation would have fresh salvation of a household and the founding of truth and greater preaching from the man you a church.” love. 22 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE

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THE MINISTER AND BIBLE STUDY ages, such as Goldsmith, Tennyson, Longfellow, A Literary Study have said if one desired a knowledge of the best of the Bible in poetry, in the art of the biographer, the By B a sil W. M iller historian, true eloquence, it could be found in S THE storehouse of truth the Bible the Bible. No writer or speaker can be vulgar is unexcelled. Expressing in its broad outlines the fundamentals of science, or common and be a student of the Oracles of Asketching roughly the history of nations ofGod. an­ In the pulpit the best form of address, tiquity, formulating the grandest code of morals the purest diction, the most exalted eloquence and laws, as does the Bible, place it in the must be used. Hence we see the value of a foremost rank of verities. Its moral lessons, study of the Bible by the minister. spiritual precepts, and legal examples, its scien­ The diction and style of the Book of books tific accuracy, philosophical trustworthiness, and is unsurpassed. Then if one seek noble diction, literary beauty—these alone—make the Bible a lofty style of expression, a rhetorical finish, worthy of the study and analysis of the brainest grace of word and thought, mine such from the scholars and most brilliant thinkers of the ages. Scriptures. No writer of any age gave the The mightiest intellects of nineteen centuries— story of centuries of history with such com­ Chrysostom, Augustine, Luther, Sir Isaac Newton, pletion, such finish, such terseness as Moses. The Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, G. Fredrick portrayal of no character has been given with Wright—have spent a lifetime in mastering this such beauty and graphicness as that of Jesus, wondrous Book of divine revelation. They but though written by untrained men—as far as we touched the shores of possible explorations here­ know—in every case save that of Luke, the in. In e^erv rear/iu' of truth the Bible is un- physician. That loftiness of sentiment, deftness surpaMBd.' As a moral dynamic it has produced of literary touch, characteristic of - geniuses of the scientific and industrial progress of our age. the pen, found in the w'orks of David, the 1, As a spiritual power it has drawn from the the 23, the 104 Psalms, and others of the same sloughs of savagery and paganism every land class—of Solomon,—the Proverbs,—of Isaiah,— touched by its glory. the 35, 53 and 55 chapters—of Christ in the The literary value of the Bible is incalcuable. Sermon on the Mount, and of Paul in the No man is well trained until he is familar with thirteenth of First Corinthians, finds not a par­ this fountain source of literature. Much less allel in all the annals of literature. is a minister fitted for his ennobling task until To be lofty in diction, noble in sentiment, pure he has drunk deeply therefrom. One may know in thought, rhetorical in descriptive power, rhym­ the contents of the Word of God, analyze it. ing with poetic beauty, fellow ministers let us collate its related scriptures, be acquainted with master the Bible. To be terse in expression, the great texts, be versed in biblical dogmas, but master the style of Solomon. To be truly elo­ such study does for the granduer of the Bible quent in public address, read Isaiah. To be what a study of botany docs for the beauty of graphic, pointed, simple yet profound, imitate flowers, or astronomy in its technical outlines the style of Jesus. To be philosophic, study does for the star-studded heavens. In the mass Romans, Galatians, the first chapter of John’s of details, in the jutnble of dates, systems, chro­ Gospel. To be poetic, let the ringing music of nology, dispensations and geographical informa­ the Psalms permeate your soul. If you would tion, the glory may be hidden, the fragrance lost. be dramatic, or carry tragedy into your pulpit, Study the Bible as literature; seek out its gems memorize Job, or be thrilled with the moving of thought, its flashes of exquisite diction, its love story of Ruth. If you seek material for flights of rhetorical grace, and its sweeping “symphonic sermons” after the form of Stidger, periods of eloquence. there is the story of Esther, of Daniel, of the Every form of literature is contained in the saints of old, the poetry of Job or the music Bible. This Book is more than a mere volume of David. Fellow ministers, we will progress of writings; it is a broad, a vast, and a varied in the art of persuasion, develop in pulpit power, literature. The most brilliant writers of the increase in vocabulary, eloquence, diction, in THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 23 proportion as we master the Bible, dwell with of our training, the fountain source of our elo­ it daily. quence, as well as the spring of our doctrines, The masters of the pulpit have been adept and the inspiration of our messages. The grand­ in the use of pure diction; theirs also has been est thought, the greatest choice of diction, the a true ringing eloquence. But such eloquence most sublime flights of rhetoric, the smoothest was the result of their long continued study of polish of structure and style, the most deft the Bible. The sermons of Guthrie read almost drapery of thought in enticing, alluring, dynamic like flaming prose poems; those of Talmage lift words, is called for in presenting the message of one to the heights of life by their diction, their God to humdnity. With the Bible as our train­ rhetorical flights. Maclaren won the recognition ing book, our Book of literary as well as spirit­ of the world as England’s most interesting and ual illumination, may we never become common, thrilling speakers. Today Henry Clay Morrison, vulgar, ordinary in speaking as the “oracles of though without an early educational foundation God.” necessary to true eloquence, stands as one of PASADENA, CALIF. America’s most eminent pulpit orators. These men caught something of the exalted phrase­ W A N T E D : A NEW PREACHER AT ology, the mighty style, the lofty sentiments of B RIGHT VILLE the Word of God, and thus their eloquence was By C. E. C ornell produced. Ours too may be this sought for Brightville was an old substantial charge. The pulpit power, this true literary simplicity, if we membership was made up largely of good sub­ but pay the price of Bible study, constant read­ stantial people who treated their pastor well. ing, quoting, imitating the literary merits of this But it was noised abroad over the District that Book. Brightville wanted a new preacher. It had been In making a literary study of the Bible one quite generally discussed and some decisions made should constantly bear in mind the necessity of before there was much thought that the District studying Scripture phraseology, unusual word­ Superintendent ought to be consulted. It is ings, terseness of sentence formation, the de­ the unfortunate practice of not a few churches scriptive power of each word used. In that to “call” a pastor and then ask the District masterpiece of all literature, the Beatitudes, not Superintendent to confirm the call. That is a word is lost, every word used is dynamic, nor usually getting the cart before the horse. But is there a word that could be added to increase Dr. Lovejoy, the genial District Superintendent, its power, nor taken away without destroying would soon be around on semi-annual visit, something of the beauty. This clearness of ex­ and they would inform him that tnc> wanted pression for our pulpit use may be had by study­ a new preacher, and that a change was absolutely ing, imitating the graphicness, the clarity of necessary. biblical diction. Dr. Lovejoy was a man of wisdom, careful The first literary study demanded of a min­ and kindly. It was in his heart to have the ister should be the Bible. The drama of Job church and the preacher both happily satisfied. excels in beauty and power anything Shake­ Harmony is so much better than strife. He de­ sired to make the people happy and to make speare ever wrote. But usually we study Shake­ the preacher happy, and then he was satisfied speare first. The eloquence of the orations of in his own mind the church would prosper Isaiah outshines that of Demosthenes, Cicero, But Dr. Lovejoy also knew that the situation Webster, Clay. No love story—merely as litera­ at Brightville was rather ticklish and required ture—is comparable with that of Ruth; George careful handling. A District Superintendent must Eliot, Thackeray, Hawthorne, Lew Wallace never be as wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove, penned fiction so sublime, so interesting, so he is expected to meet every situation with fair gripping as the simple story of Ruth. The songs fearlessness as the church must move on. So, of the shepherd king David out ring those of Dr. Lovejoy thought it would be the part of Milton, Burns, Longfellow, Tennyson. Ambas­ wisdom to interview several of the more in­ sadors of God, then let us make our sermons fluential and leading members, and find out why brilliant with holy diction, saturated with the they wanted a new preacher. true poetry of inspiration, sparkling with that He first called on Brother Sterling, an in­ rhetorical grace of the Scriptures. fluential member of the church. Brother Sterling The pulpit should lead the age in nobility of was considerate and very kind, nothing harsh thought, loftiness of sentiment, in the simplicity about him. He said: “I have nothing in partic­ of expression which speaks to the heart. Ours is ular against our pastor. He is an exceptionally the opportunity as a denomination of forming fine young man, and I love him and am loyal a trained ministry, a holy God-filled eloquent to him, but he takes too much time to make the ministry. May the Bible be the rock foundation announcements. There are Sunday mornings 24 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE when he does not get to preaching until noon preaching over the folks’ heads doesn’t help or after. Last Sunday I timed him, and he them. Sermons ought to be scolarly, but ought spent twenty-three minutes in the announce­ to go direct to the heart to be helpful. The ments. Some few of the congregation went to preacher ought to give his sheep some fodder sleep, and quite generally the people were tired and put it on the lower shelf. A preacher can out before the sermon was begun.” be well educated and yet not know how to Dr. Lovejoy nodded his head. “I have heard preach for the edification and uplifting of his that same story about many pastors. But you people. A real educated preacher states the see the pastor wants to be fair with all depart­ great truths so simply that a child can under­ ments of the church and each organization hands stand them.” in an announcement with the remark, ‘emphasize Dt. Lovejoy was getting tired and weary and that good.’ Thank you Brother Sterling.” thought he would better go home, but he de­ Dr. Lovejoy next called on Brother Faithful. cided in his own mind to stop and see the Sun­ Brother Faithful was always at church; he was day school superintendent. So he stopped in the a front seater, a little deaf, but a credible listener. store w'here Mr. Woodman was working. After He had been a member of the church for many, a cordial greeting, Dr. Lovejoy stated that there many years; he had always stood by the pastor was some agitation in favor of a new pastor, and the church was as dear to him as the apple he said, “What is your candid and honest opin­ of his eye. Dr. Lovejoy stated his errand, say­ ion?” Brother Woodman was silent for a minute ing that he was seeing a few folks and getting or so, he was thinking of the boys and girls in their expressions and opinions. “You know,” his Sunday school, and he desired to be fair to said Brother Faithful, “that I have been loyal them and the pastor. Finally he said: “There to my pastors. They all have had admirable is some criticism of our pastor, but there is al­ qualities. I like this man we have. He is well ways criticism of every pastor. Our pastor is educated, a graduate of one of our colleges; he not a young folks’ pastor, but as far as I can preaches good, sound sermons; that is, they are judge, the boys and girls like him. He is not good as much as I can hear of them. Ojr particularly a Sunday school man—he usually pastor has the unfortunate habit—as many comes in late—but I announce the church serv­ preachers have— when he reaches a climax he ice to the Sunday school and urge all to attend drops his voice to a whisper. I nearly disjoint the preaching services. He is not what you my neck trying to hear him, but usually fail. might call a man of social intercourse, he seems His best point is gone and I am the loser. I a little stiff and cold. But the biggest objection, am not the only one, for others with good ears that is, a general criticism, is this: Our pastor tell me that they cannot hear him. Why do so doesn’t quit when he is through. He preaches many preachers make their introduction and their remarkably well for half an hour, reaches a superb climaxes in a subdued tone of voice. Don’t they place to stop, but he doesn’t stop, he goes on, want to be heard?” flounders, repeats himself and don’t seem to be Dr. Lovejoy was hearing the same old story able to land his boat and tie up to shore. A of the preacher who does not know how to high-school boy said that he saw three or four handle his voice. fine places for him to stop, but he missed them Mrs. Gilderwild was president of the Ladies’ and went on. My only complaint is, that our Missionary Society. She was a very capable pastor does not quit when he is through.” woman and a great church worker- Dr. Love­ The District Assembly came in due course of1 joy went to see her; she told the District Super­ time. The General Superintendent, the District intendent that she liked the pastor and she Superintendent and the Advisory Board met sev­ thought that many of the members liked him eral times to make pastoral adjustments. Bright- also, “But” said she, “our pastor preaches over ville had a new pastor sent to them. The man the heads of the people. We go to church, listen who was moved left against his wishes. He intently, go home and wonder what it is all spoke unkindly of the District Superintendent about. The pastor is so well educated and as a man with a cotton string for a backbone; spends so much time in his study, that he thinks he bitterly criticised the “autocracy” of Nazarene in a different channel from what we do. He is so ecclesiasticism, and talked “about a man not profound, so scholarly, so erudite, that his ser­ having an opportunity,” and was generally dis­ mons are above us. We cannot get the children gruntled. and the young people to stay at all; they do He was moved to a smaller charge where he not understand the sermons either.” As Dr. would make long announcements, whisper his Lovejoy left the home of Sister Gilderwild he climaxes, preach over the heads of the people, was thinking, and his thoughts ran about like and never stop when he was through. At the this: Poor preacher! So much learning, yet end of the year, the church was about dead lacks wisdom. Why cannot he understand that and he was asked to move again. THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 25 THE PASTOR’S SUPER SIX might keep in the King’s great highway of holi­ ness. To turn to either the right or left would By N. B . H f.rrell mean trouble if not a total wreck. The head­ In this article we shall endevor to deal with lights, to give the driver the best light, must be the lights on the pastor’s super six, the head properly focused so as to throw the light ahead lights, the tail lights, the dash light and the in such a manner as to reveal the road clearly parking lights. far enough ahead to give the driver time to 1. The necessity of the lights. steer his super six by all dangers that might appear. There is danger of getting the lights 2. The use and misuse of the lights. set too high or too low. In either case the lights 3. The highway signal lights. will be of little use. They can be and should be The necessity for a full lighting system on set and focused just right. the pastor’s super six lies in the fact that he is Again the lights are to be used and not abused. driving through a land of darkness. Spiritual There are times when the dimmers should- be darkness is the blackest of all forms of darkness. used. The art of handling the lights and ob­ There are no sun, moon or stars in sin’s sky. serving the signals will have much to do with It is like the awful darkness of Egypt that the safety of the super six and her passengers. could be felt. We have met cars on the highways with strong Not only is spiritual darkness black but it blazing head lights that would glare so that we is filled with heavy fog clouds that rise from could see nothing. A driver of a super six the swamps of unbelief and drift across the church can turn on too much light on a subject highways obscuring vision; and without power­ and blind the people. This danger is just as ful head lights, it would be impossible to travel bad as not enough light. The light is to be at all without danger to the super six as well as used instead of abused. The truth of salvation all others. The head lights on the pastor’s super can be preached in such a manner as to blind six are of vast importance. instead of enlightening. The preacher can de­ The tail lights on the pastor’s super six are nounce immorality in such a way that his preach­ made necessary for two reasons. If any other ing becomes immoral in suggestion, even as driver of a super six desires to drive faster than much so as the moving picture which he is de­ others the tail light reveals the slow going nouncing. Light is to be used and not abused. church and permits the faster super six to go When churches park they should observe the around without danger to either. Then the stop rules and turn on their parking lights. It is light. When anything goes wrong and a pastor dangerous to park along the highway in the needs to slow up for repairs, a flat tire, etc., he dark. Churches holding petting parties with needs the stop light to warn those behind him the world, flesh and the Devil should clear the that he is slowing down and stopping. We have highway and keep their park lights on. a number of super six churches slowing down Again, drivers of super six churches slowing today and we hope there is nothing serious the down should see that the stop light is working, matter. for just behind them comes a flyer at high speed. The dash light is necessary in that it reveals Super six drivers run at top "speed and unless the dash board on which are the many indicators the rules are observed wrecks will happen. To as to the oil, charging of the battery, the speed­ avoid wrecks observe the rules of the King’s ometer, etc. highway. Then there are the parking lights, red, white and green. It is dangerous to both the parked If I were the driver of a super six car, car and to those moving to park along the I'd keep my lights all super in power; King’s highway without parking lights. Many I’d use the dimmer, the tail, and dash, super sixes are now parked but most of them As well as the spot light that is super in flash. have had judgment to get away from the main highway, so there is but little danger because THE PERPENDICULAR PRONOUN of them. By A. W. O rw ig The signal lights along the King’s great high­ HE title of this article are words used way are for the travelers’ aid and to benefit by1 a certain bishop, years ago, at a promi­ those who have parked. The red lights of nent camp-meeting. In referring to some danger mark by roads, cross roads, etc. These preachers he said that “the perpendicular pro­ signals are to keep the super six driver informed T noun spoils all they do.” Well, truly, it often as to the course the highway takes, for he is driving through a country of darkness. spoils a great deal of what they do. But the The use of the head light on the pastor’s super same is also true of many who are not preachers. six is first to show the driver the way so he Poor human nature seems to be impregnated 26 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE with the spirit of self-importance. Often self So that all around may see is manifested even in sermons, prayers, testi­ Christ and Christ alone.” monies, etc., and in other relations in life. How That was a most glaring and obnoxious case self likes to parade its own achievements, and of “the perpendicular pronoun,” when the man sometimes even at the expense of the good deeds in the temple told God how good he was. His of others! The “big I” and (he “little you” whole prayer, or rather his insolent harangue, pervade society in general. bristled with “I,” “I,” “I.” But he got nothing except the contempt of God. But was it not A few years ago I heard a very excellent and also the “big I,” when even the disciples of useful man say, “Oh, there, now, I guess I have Jesus sought the exaltation of self, wondering been saying too much about myself! please who would be “the greatest” among them? pardon.” But the nature of his remarks justi­ There is perhaps no greater foe to our personal fied a frequent allusion to himself. And yet spiritual well-being and our success in God’s he may have, in a degree, felt that he needed to work than the abominable and proud spirit that guard against the manifestations of self. desires and seeks the honor of men instead of Verily “the perpendicular pronoun” loves to the glory of God. A good resolution for all of be in the eye of the public. And good men us would be that of a lady who, in giving her are sometimes ensnared. The boastful spirit testimony, said that henceforth she would al­ accompanying the publication of sermon topics, ways use the little “i” for herself and the capital and the highly dramatic posture of their portraits “1” for Jesus. in the papers seem to indicate more or less of self-glorification. The desire always to keep one’s The apostle Paul said, “Not I, but Christ.” self before the public, is illustrated by the follow­ What a glorious motto for all Christians, preach­ ing incident: A prominent and wealthy business ers and other! But it needs to become an actual man was told by a friend that a certain noted experience, the real goal of all our pursuits. We politician had “turned Baptist.” The reply was, must not only “decrease," and Christ “increase,” “I cannot believe the report; for to be a Baptist but we must die to self, so that we shall be able „iie must be'immersed,-and he would never con­ truly to say, “None of self, but all of thee.” sent to disappear from public view long enough LOS ANGELES, CALIF. for the performance of the rite.” Somewhat afflilsing,- but not without a lesson. The incident A LAYMAN ON PREACHING recalls the old fable of the frog which wished to Y MESSAGE to the preachers is that migrate with some wild geese by holding on to a nothing in your ministry is so important stick which one of them held in its mouth. The as the earnestness born of living faith. sight evoked the question by some persons as The people will forgive anything else in a min­ to who could have conceived such a clever idea. isterM except the sense that he is professional. Un­ Upon this the silly frog shouted, “I did.” And less back of his learning and diction and eloquence in thus opening its mouth in self-praise it, of they feel that he is dominated by a faith that course, fell to the ground and to its death. lifts him to the heights, his sermons are as Thus some persons who are troubled with sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. the “great I” spirit, sooner or latter come to “The reason I go to hear that man preach,” grief. It is still true that pride goeth before de­ said a prosperous and virile successful lumber­ struction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” man, “is that I cannot be sawing lumber while Christ warns against self-exaltation by declaring, he is preaching.” “Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased.” Men and women, to use an overworked word, The “I” must go down, and stay down, if we are “fed up” on the things that pertain to trade would be freely used of God. How blessed and and business and sports and science and litera­ important always to substitute Jesus for self! ture. They go to chutch—when it is not from A certain preacher, before going into the pulpit, habit, and the older I grow the more I believe often asks himself, “Is it God or self you seek that most good things that come to us are the to glorify?” result of a habit that puts us in a receptive “Out of everybody’s sight, mood in a good place—in the hope that they Most of all my own, will be lifted up by a spiritual message and THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 27 have their walks brightened by the light that into our services and we should not neglect to never was on sea or land. utilize every possible available means to obtain The conception that there may be a religion the attendance of the people. in the heart separate from the religion in the “The children of this world are wiser in their head, and that one may be substituted for the . . . generation than the children of light.” They other, finds no warrant in the Scripture or in invest large sums in the most attractive and life. Whenever I go to church and the minister rises and says, “I am going to preach to you fascinating display possible, to catch the atten­ out of my heart tonight,” I immediately begin tion of the people and draw the crowds to their to fear that is an excuse for the lack of proper performances. Of course, we are not catering to preparation, and I am in for a thin discourse. the crowds and to the spectacular, but it is com­ Often the impression is justified. People go to mon sense to expect more blessing and more church to be fed as well as comforted and grace upon our work according to the extent strengthened. You will observe that even Billy of our mission to the public. Sunday, believed to disregard the conventions, To conclude that advertising is superfluous writes all his sermons, even if he seems to drive and unnecessary, because, if we have a sufficiency appeals home with a baseball bat. of the Glory of God upon our services, that will It may be because of my upbringing in the attract the people, may be only presumption. oldtime Methodist faith, but I feel a sense of Unquestionably, there is nothing so attractive being denied bread, if I go to church and in the and impressive as the wonderful outpouring of learned discourse, enriched with classical lore, the Spirit of God upon our meeting. Nothing I find nothing that gives warmth and cheer to can be substituted for this and in reality, the the heart. Between the preacher who is short more of the genuine we possess in our services, on learning and long on experience, and the one the more truthful and meritorious will be our whose sermon is a cold ethical essay, give me advertising. the first. I can go to the library and the lyceum There must be some objective to our publicity, for the classics and for logic. But if the Church consequently we must, of necessity, have some­ has no message or no influence that warms the thing worth while to offer the public. A ver; heart and sends one forth to love and help his significant article in the press has come to my fellows, from what source is the essential to attention, from which I quote in this regard; happiness and usefulness to come?—J o se p h u s a few lines of the address given by Charles Stelzle, D a n ie l s, Secretary of the navy in the cabinet of New York, told to the Eighteenth Annual of President Wilson in The Christian Advocate, Conference on Church Publicity: New York. “In advertising the Church the same principle of psychology must be used that the business man employs in selling goods. On general ATTRACTIVE CHURCH PUBLICITY principles it is safe to assume that the public By A l p in M . B o w es knows nothing whatever about the church. In This caption has been chosen for my article advertising the church it should be made plain as most significant because it suggests the secret that it is not a reform organization, a quorum, of the merits of effective advertising. a social service league, a political party; nor its Advertising is a profession in itself and not preachers supposed to be economic experts. The everyone possesses this rare genius of making church has an important social message and mis­ advertising attractive, yet every minister may sion, and this fact should be advertised to the learn much for his benefit by observation. world; but its supreme task is spiritual. If it Advertising, when attractive, has a very sig­ fails here, it has lost out completely. The church nificant place in the success of the Church, if has a sure cure for sin, but, judging by the pub­ we have anything of merit to advertise. And licity, it is not very excited about offering this the more impressive, noticeable, convincing char­ sure cure to the people. The church must let a acter of the publicity the more its influence in sorrowing world know that it offers comfort attracting the attention and interest of the public. to the desolate, that it heals the broken hearted, If we are to reach the public with our great that it gives strength to the weak and weary, message of Full Salvation, we must get the people it can advertise no greater facts than these, for 28 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE herein it offers what the world craves most pastor a wonderful opportunity for advertising earnestly.” his church. It has been my method to visit the Our Lord said in the parable of the great City Editor of the newspaper and get personally supper, “Go out into the highways and hedges acquainted with him. Then a week or two be­ and compel them to come in.” That may in­ fore a revival, visit him with a short story of clude street services and tent campaigns and the the Evangelist’s life and his picture, which he personal, individual invitation, but it may as would gladly publish as news. Then follow consistently include a compelling advertisement this with some display advertisements which in the newspaper, on the bulletin board, on the reach every home in the city. Then we use electric sign, etc. a large banner over the church entrance, and In regard to the amount of advertising to be banners stretched across several leading streets. done or the character of the publicity, we must Also, either cards or circulars for general distribu­ distinguish between the country church, the tion during the services and distributed sys­ suburban city church and the larger city church. tematically to the employees of factories and It will not be profitable to do as extensive ad­ department stores; cards on the front of street vertising in the former as in the latter instance. cars; large cards mounted on frames placed on However, some kind of publicity of the right prominent vacant lots; and announcements, if character, is always helpful. possible, over the Radio. Our effort has been We have gained a great victory in publicity to enthuse and awaken the people until they if we have discovered the secret of attractive, are talking Revival everywhere. It may not compelling advertising. Publicity is not, as some be necessary to use such an extensive program seem to infer, a useless, extravagant expense, if of publicity everywhere and in every revival, it actually brings people to our services; for if but experience will prove what advertising God we may welcome the people to our services, we will bless most, for the benefit of our services. will have more penitents at our altar, more What a Convention we preachers would have converts to welcome into our churches, more if we could get together and discuss the question, inspiration upon the people, and, as a conse­ “How I would advertise the Church.” quence, an increased offering in our treasury. It is difficult to suggest any set method of HERE AND THERE AMONG BOOKS publicity applicable to all churches, yet I would offer for consideration such publicity as: The By P. H. L u n n weekly bulletin, (this the members may read Of special interest to preachers at this partic­ and pass ort to others) an attractive church card, ular time of the year is Doran’s Minister’s (to be kept in your pockets for ready use) the Manual for 1927 (Doran $2.00) I am informed newspaper display; the bulletin board, (some­ that the first volume published last year, met thing neat and attractive) ; a running advertise­ with an acceptance even beyond the publisher’s ment on some pages in the telephone directory; expectations. The Minister’s Manual really is the hotel directory; an easily read bulletin board a remarkable publication. It would be un­ at some conspicuous corner on each road leading reasonable to expect every suggestion contained into the city; a flood-light to illuminate the in its 729 pages to be adaptable to every min­ front of the church; etc. ister’s program. But it does unquestionably It has been my experience that no publicity contain enough usable material to make it well reaches the people more nearly to an entirety worth the price and more. Even to list its or more effectively than a newspaper advertise­ different divisions requires considerable space. ment, and, by discrimination, many news items The book contains sermons and illustrations for may be published free of charge. the following special occasions: Armistice Sun­ If it were not for the lack of space I would day, Christmas, Commencement, Communion, be delighted to give some samples of the hun­ Easter, Holy Week, Independence Day, Labor dreds of advertisements which I have collected Day, Memorial Day, Mother’s Day, New Year’s from many sources in my twenty years in the Sunday, Old People’s Service, Palm Sunday, pastorate, but I can only give a brief statement Thanksgiving, Washington’s Birthday. Also cere­ here. monies for weddings, funerals, baptism of in­ A series of special revival services affords every fants and adults. Another feature is about THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 29 sixty sermons for children; still another, discus­ of others when they are portrayed, warn us to sions on the Christian Endeavor Society Topics take heed lest we fall. Preachers, stock up on which will do for addresses to any body of biographies and by all means get this one. young people. There are evening sermons for “Harnessing God.” Yes, a bit shocking, that each Sunday of the year also enough mid-week title but don't pass judgment until you find that messages for the entire year and besides this Paul Rader the author of a book by this name a special sermon for each one of the fifty-two (Doran $1.25) doesn’t advocate harnessing God Sundays. Then a discussion of e^ch Sunday but shows the futility of men, as individuals and school lesson and finally poetry for all special as systems and organization attempting to uti­ days of the year. Book publishers have been lize God’s power to further their schemes and accused of profiteering but no sane person would projects. Rader’s thoughts along this line are bring that charge based on the value for the so invigorating and refreshing that we must quote price of this volume. just a paragraph or two: “Men tried to harness It was a happy thought that prompted the God. They are still trying to lay scientific title “Andrew Murray and his Message” (Revell hands upon Him; measure His ability and bind $1.75) for the volume narrating the life of this Him to their own ways of thinking, confinc saint of God. For the man and his message Him to their brain’s ideas. New religions spring were inseparable. He wrote, not his theories, up every day, offering to harness God and put but the interpretations of his inner experiences. Him at the command of men. Old religions This detailed account—334 pages—has the further unwind their ancient rules and regulations for value of being authentic, compiled as it was by flattering Him into their net or appeasing His a friend, W. M. Douglas, with the help of wrath and gaming His favor. Great pageants of M urray’s daughters. pomp are displayed—also shapely altars of art, Although Andrew Murray’s writings have that gifts of gold and precious stones, gorgeous robes mystical quality that classes them with the works of costly fabrics are supposed through priestly of “Brother Lawrence,” a Kempis, Augustine intoning to draw God within the cathedral walls and such men, he belongs to the present day, where permanent obligations to grant life and passing to his reward in 1917. This biography power can be fastened upon Him. This power should be carefully read by everyone who aspires in turn is to be dispensed to the multitndes by to deep spirituality. those who have managed to put the harness One chapter entitled Divine Healing gives us on God.” a revelation of how Andrew Murray applied to But the title of the book before me represents his own needs, the principles of prevailing prayer only one chapter or sermon—there are eight about which he wrote. If there wasn’t another others, everyone of them short, very readable, thing worth while in the book the chapter of simple in a sense yet pointed and pregnant with Murray’s home life would be worth far more truth—truth that we and the world need to hear than the price of the volume. As the compiler and heed. Rader has mastered the problem of says: “Many men who are great in the outside the proper appeal to present-day readers. No world fail lamentably in the home.” Not so with rambling, no long drawn out arguments—truth the subject of this biography—his tenderness of in chunks, here and there an illustration—homely spirit must have been quite like that of his sometimes, but always to the point. In this Master. His love and solicitude for his wife book especially, Rader’s messages close with you was beautiful and touching. One gets the im­ wondering why he didn’t say a little more when pression from the entire book that the Psalmist’s he was doing so well. testimony “Thy gentleness hath made me great” Francis A. Wright has sent us for review, a could be spoken of Andrew Murray. I may be copy of his late volume, “The Beast, Modernism biased by personal preference—most of us are— and the Evangelical Faith.” It is a comprehensive but I believe a preacher’s library should have survey of prophecy fulfilled and unfulfilled. The a good sprinkling of biographies. “Lives of book is divided into five parts. Part one dis­ great men all remind us”—you remember. The cusses the prophecies concerning the Beast and achievements of others stir us to high endeavor; False Prophet. Part two contrasts the funda­ the victories of another encourage us to go mentals of our faith as opposed to false systems forth to conquer; the weaknesses and failures of government and religions. Part three depicts 30 THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE very strikingly the fallacies of Modernism giving gestions that must have taken months to gather birth to the False Prophet. Part four places and to write. A Sunday school lesson commen­ emphasis upon the divine inspiration of the tary is not only valuable for the current year, Word of God; calls attention to Scripture proph­ but for a preacher or teacher it makes a worth­ ecies already fulfilled and traces the hand of while reference book to be referred to again God in history down through the ages. The and again. There probably are other good com­ book is not unduly speculative and furnishes mentaries on the Sunday school lessons but we much food for sober thought and careful study. are sure that there is none better than Tarbell’s. The idea is current that many business men The Fleming H. Revell Co., also have sub­ take the attitude that religion and all that goes mitted a copy of R. A. Torrey’s “The Gist of the with it—church attendance, prayer, Bible—is well Lesson” (35c) for 1927. This is a neat vest- enough for women and children but it has no pocket volume giving a concise exposition of the appeal to the practical, hard-headed man of International lessons. Dr. Torrey enjoys the business and affairs. Perhaps even the careful reputation of being one of the foremost Bible Bible student will be astounded to know how scholars of this day and as such he is well much the Scriptures have to say on the subject qualified for the difficult task of condensing the of business—vocations, merchandising, etc. W. great amount of material that might be written G. Barnes, evidently after exhaustive research on any of the lessons into a nutshell as it has compiled, a modest little volume, classifying were. For a busy pastor or superintendent, all Scriptures alluding in any way to business especially, this little volume is worth many times and its allied subjects. “Business in the Bible” its price. (Vir 50c) is a handy, pocket-size book of 86 pages, with nineteen chapters, each one covering one classification of Scripture references. We FACTS AND FIGURES mention just a few, Maxims for Business Men; By E. J. Fleming Occupations Mentioned in the Bible; Occupations for Women; Arts and Crafts; Merchants; Farm­ Noisome, noxious insects cause a great deal ers; Workers and Wages; Manufacturers. of trouble and destruction in this world. The United States is foremost in the fight against It requires no great stretch of the imagination them. Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau to picture great possibilities for this little volume. of Entomology, has a personnel in his bureau Christian business men will enjoy it, other busi­ of 575, of whom 369 are scientific experts. ness men need its enlightening message, the Scientific men from many other nations come to preacher in preparing a sermon for business men the United States to see how we handle this will find it of inestimable value; the minister called upon to address a group of business men problem. will find here just the material he needs; the teacher of a men’s Bible class will constantly In 1925 the Methodist Episcopal Church through refer to it. It’s a big little book. Why hasn’t its home missionary society spent more than someone done this before? $2,500,000 in the United States and its territories For the twenty-second time Revell is offering in the interest of home mission work. Tarbell’s Teachers’ Guide, by Martha Tarbell, Ph. D. ($2.00). This annual volume needs no Late reports from the great disaster in Florida introduction to church and Sunday school work­ caused by the hurricane, show that nearly 365 ers. Neither the author nor the book needs an persons were killed or fatally injured, 150 are introduction to Christian workers. After han­ missing, 1,100 injured, and 20,000 homeless. Prop­ dling hundreds of books and reviewing scores of erty was damaged to the amount of $165,000,000. them the sense of wonder at the material which one can procure for a mere bagatelle is in no sense abated. This particular volume struck us The World Zionist organization will spend especially as an example of what modern inven­ $10,000,000 in the agricultural industrial develop­ tions have made possible in the way of getting ment of Palestine during the next year. The your money’s worth in the book line. Here we Jews of the United States contribute $7,500,000 have 415 pages, filled with information and sug­ of this amount. THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE 31 Oil wells in the United States appear to have A pastor of a sister church in Alabama has a great attraction for many who desire to ac­ just finished eight years of service with his quire sudden wealth. It is reported that on church, during which time there have been December 31, 192S there were 306,100 producing 3,133 additions to the membership. The average oil wells in the United States which was an in­ Sunday school attendance increased from 557 crease of 7,000 over the number reported for to 1,211. The church has raised for current 1924. The average daily production per well expenses the sum of $355,723, while during the was six and five-tenths barrels. In 1925' there same time it has raised $435,825 for missionary were 25,623 wells drilled, distributed as follows: and educational purposes, with a present member­ Oil wells 16,559, gas wells 2,300 and 6,734 were ship of 3,117. It is evident that this prosperous dry holes. We are led to wonder if churches church is contributing as, much for others as organized within the last twelve months could for itself. be characterized as “oil wells,” “gas wells” and “dry holes.” The Union Lutheran Church in America at its recent convention adopted a budget of $4,400,000 The Way of Faith carries the following: for its work of 1928. This represents a ten per “The drys swept the slate in Illinois, Indiana cent increase over the amount approved for 1927. and Oregon primaries. Here is an incident Of this amount $1,320,000 is for foreign missions, worth noting: Ward B. Heiner of Indiana, $1,674,200 for American or home missions, $517, toured the state in a $12,000 automobile, dis­ 000 for Ministerial Relief, $424,600 for education, playing a sign in big red letters, ‘I am wet.’ $226,600 for inner missions, $11,000 for the Robinson, his opponent, ‘dry,’ received 226,439 American Bible Society, $50,600 for the National votes and Heiner received 30,743. But the wet Luther Council, and $176,000 for executive ex­ newspapers are playing with the soft pedal on penses. when this incident is mentioned. Prohibition, the greatest boon to this country, marches on.” Rev. John Thomas, founder of the Friendly Islands Mission, applied to the London Mission Before prohibition America was paying $2,438, Society for permission to extend his work to the 000 annually for drink and in 1916 $753,567,900 island of Haabai, whose chief desired his coming. for education. In 1922 the situation had so He waited with some anxiety for a reply. About changed that w'e spent $1,783,970,000 for public that time a box was washed ashore, and carried education but not one cent w'as spent for liquor to one of the missionaries, containing a letter ty public permission. from the society authorizing the establishment of the mission. Neither the vessel to which the Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale University, esti­ letter was entrusted, the crew, nor any of the mates that prohibition is netting the United freight, except the box containing the letter States $6,000,000,000 a year in values. authorizing a new effort for the salvation of the heathen, which came to the right place at the The largest church organ in the world has right time, was ever heard from. been built in the Liverpool Cathedral at a cost of $175,000. It was dedicated on October 18. The death of Rev. Andrew Broadus, III, Work on the organ WEis started before the war pastor of the Salem Baptist Church, near Sparta, but was abandoned during the war, or until Va., ended a pastoral service of the third genera­ peace came. The lowest note weighs more than tion of this name and an unbroken service of a ton and is thirty-seven inches in diameter. 106 years given by the three men to this church. The instrument has five rows of keys, 222 draw This is a wonderful testimony of both the faith­ knobs, 168 stops and 10,934 pipes. The electric fulness of men and the fellowship of God. motors that operate the mechanism have a total of 35 horsepower. The organ is so large that it Are old ministers being crowded to the shelf? requires 17 telephones in various parts of the Not all together. Dr. George Alexander preaches in instrument to enable workmen to communicate the First Presbyterian church, Dr. James Burrell with the assistant at the keys when the organ in the Marble Collegiate church, and Dr. I. M. is being tuned. Haldemann in the First Baptist church, of New 32 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE York. These three preachers are all octogenarians. But there is often need for real personal work Dr. Henry Howard, who is nearly seventy years in helping weak, discouraged and feebly instructed of age, has just begun his pastorate at the Fifth Christians. “Comfort ye My people,” is the divine Avenue Presbyterian church. injunction. And having ourselves been instructed in the Holy Scriptures, as to doctrine and duty, John Wesley Chapel, City Road, London, is we should be somewhat “apt to teach,” or en­ now open daily for prayer and meditation, hav­ gaged in “teaching and admonishing one another.” ing recently been renovated. A Wesley museum And there are some who fall into sin, or are “over­ has been founded in a nearby house, in which taken in a fault,” and need help. It may be our John Wesley died. personal work to “restore such in the spirit of meekness.” The Church has many weaklings or What is supposed to be the oldest American “babes in Christ,” and an essential part of person­ Protestant church now standing, is the old Swedes’ al Christian work is ‘‘rightly dividing the word Church in Wilmington, Delaware. The Swedes of truth,” to “feed” the “sheep” and the “lambs,” preceded William Penn and by their peaceable and “to succor them that are tempted.” Such dealings with the Indians, laid the foundation work not only belongs to preachers outside of for the treaty of peace between William Penn the pulpit as well as in it, but to the laity as and the Indian tribes. The corner stone of this well, “according to the grace that is given to us.” church was laid in 1698. The preacher who is content with pulpit work It is alw'ays interesting to note what other alone comes far short of duty and misses the churches are accomplishing. The Novemeber re­ blessings derived from private or personal con­ port from the Disciples of Christ shows a net tact with people in an effort to win them to gain of six and one-tenth per cent in member­ Christ. An unsaved man, who very often at­ ship. They received for regular missionary and tends a certain church and knew the preacher benevolent work $2,803,360.10 of which $1,008, well, said to him, “You do not seem to tell 846.66 were special funds and $1,794,513.44 were sinners how to be saved, and you have never general funds. spoken a personal word to me about my soul’s salvation.” In gratifying contrast is that of the The Union Christian Missionary Society with preacher who asked a man on the street if he the six organizations represented, lists gross assets was a Christian, and received the reply, “That of $12,207,939.31 as at June 30, 1926, and a is quite a personal question.” To this the preach­ permanent endowment of $1,869,234.98. The er answered, “I know it is and meant it to be Department of Foreign Missions reports 4,827 such, but asked in the interest of your soul.” baptisms during the year on ten foreign fields. There are professors of religion who are will­ The Department of Home Missions made appro­ ing to do general church work, but not such as priation for pastors’ support in 141 churches, involves a personal effort to save souls. A preach­ of which 13 became self-supporting. These er asked a male member of his church if he churches show 2,122 additions to the member­ ship. There were 912 children cared for in the would give a gospel street talk on a Sunday six childrens’ homes, and 183 aged men and afternoon. The man said he would gladly do women cared for in the six old people’s homes. so. His pastor then asked him if he would do The Department of Ministerial Relief disbursed some real personal work by speaking to some $95,642.73 to 344 homes. The Department of of the unsaved men where he was employed in Church Extension assisted 55 churches with loans a large bank, “Oh, that’s different,” was the totaling $461,000, making possible church prop­ reply, implying a lack of holy courage to do erty valued at approximately $1,500,000. some “handpicking” work. God help us to single out some of the unsaved and prayerfully PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK strive to lead them to the Lord Jesus Christ. By A. W. Orwig ERSONAL Christian work does not wholly “Perchance in heaven, one day, to me Some ransomed soul will come and say, Pconsist in an endeavor to secure the salvation ‘All hail, beloved! but for thee of the unsaved, momentous as is such work. My soul to death had been a prey.’ And certainly all God’s people ought to be thus Ah, then, what sweetness in the thought. engaged. The Bible freely enjoins it. One soul to glory to have brought!” THE SMALLEST BIBLE

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