Category: Religion/Spirituality
This little book was given me by a friend. I glanced through it and laid it aside, thinking that I would read it at some convenient time, though I had never heard of the author. But it was forgotten till Christmas, when I received another copy as a present from another friend....
One of the holiest and most gifted of Scottish preachers says: "I ought to spend the best hours in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not...
2. Part 2Preaching which kills is prayerless preaching. Without prayer the preacher creates death, and not life. The preacher who is feeble in prayer is feeble in life-giving forces. The...
4. Part 4Prayer, with its manifold and many-sided forces, helps the mouth to utter the truth in its fulness and freedom. The preacher is to be prayed for, the preacher is made by prayer....
1. Part 1This little book was given me by a friend. I glanced through it and laid it aside, thinking that I would read it at some convenient time, though I had never heard of the author....
5. Part 5It is the presence of this unction on the preacher that creates the stir and friction in many a congregation. The same truths have been told in the strictness of the letter, but...
6. Part 6This, however, is not a day of prayer. Few men there are who pray. Prayer is defamed by preacher and priest. In these days of hurry and bustle, of electricity and steam, men wil...