To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work

Chapter 11

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_PREACHING_ (ii.).

Further remarks on Attractiveness--And, in passing, on Ministerial Considerateness--This is to be practised in preaching--As well as in other functions--Attractiveness to be guarded by Faithfulness--Requisites to attractiveness--"Preach the Gospel earnestly, interestingly, fully"--Jesus Christ is _the Gospel_--Personal conviction the essence of _Earnestness_--"Matter-of-Fact"--_Interest_ sustained by anecdote and illustration--But still more by intelligibility and practicality--Expository sermons--_Fulness_ in the message--Jesus Christ for us--And in us--The Holy Spirit must work with the Word 249