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Excerpt from Illinois Conference-Sermons: A Volume of Sermons by Ministers of the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; With an Introduction
Ghost to put him en rapport with his audience, he cannot fail of reaching a high degree of excellence as a preacher.
The preacher must preach the Word. If he is himself a thorough student of the Word, he will never lack for themes, themes worthy to be presented to any audience, and at the same time worthy of his most strenuous effort, both in preparation and presentation. Never was there greater demand for the pure Word of Life, than now. Peo ple of all ranks and stations and occupations and conditions are hungering for it and ought to have it. Nothing, how ever philosophically true, or morally good, or, aesthetically beautiful, can be substituted for the Word of God. There is no legitimate demand, but nevertheless something of a clamor, for a popular ministry - a compromising min istry - a ministry which shall bring only a message of sweet ness and light. There are strong forces playing about the preacher, to bear him into the swim of life about him, where he may easily drift with the tide. He is mightily tempted sometimes to emasculate the gospel, to tone down the truth, to dull the edge of the sword, that it may not cut to the quick. Let him forever remind himself that he has one supreme, overtowering, all - mastering work to do, to Preach the Word. And like his great prototype, let him not shun to declare the whole counsel of God.
The preacher's vocation is an exalted one. He is the messenger of a divine forgiveness; the minister of a divine reconciliation; the herald of an everlasting peace; the prophet of the light of the world.
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