Encyclopedia Of Sermon Outlines For Special Days And Occasions (Paperback)

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CYCLOPEDIA OF SERMON OUTLINES: . FOR SPECIAL DAYS AND OCCASIONS A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF SUGGESTIVE MATERIAL FOR THE OUTSTANDING DAYS AND SEASONS OF THE ENTIRE CHURCH YEAR, ALSO FOR FRATERNITIES, ETC. COMPILED AND EDITED BY REV. G. B. F. HAJLLOCK, D. D. EDITOR or The Expositor NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Copyright, 1985, By George H. Doran Company Cyclopedia of Sermon Outlines for Special Days and Occasions _ #_ Printed in the United States of America FOREWORD The lot and life of the writer and compiler of this set of books have been cast amid busiest and most pressing pas toral demands. Forty years of need and of experience lie enshrined within their covers. Would that some one had pre sented me with such volumes when I was a young minister, or at any time along the way! I needed them; would have prized them; would have used them as a source of inspira tion, of pastoral methods, and as ready reference manuals for innumerable occasions. This is the third of three works written to fill this long felt want. The books are purely pastoral, intended for min isters only. They are unique, supplying a demand no one has yet attempted to meet. They are comprehensive, aiming to be cyclopedic in contents. One would need go to the table of contents of each volume to find the full inclusion. Without going into minutiae, but referring only in barest outline, in the Cyclopedia of Pastoral Methods are aids to the worthy con duct of public devotions, including all special days and occa sions, with salutations, invocations, pastoral prayers, offertory sentences and prayers, intercessions for special persons and objects; here too are numerous ceremoniesfor weddings, funer als, communion services, baptisms, confirmations, ordinations, for the adoption of children, and for the sending out of mis sionaries; also services for the installation of Elders, Deacons, Deaconesses and of Bible School officers and teachers. In addi tion, and possibly even more valuable because harder to find, are many choice and fitting forms for corner-stone layings, dedi cation of churches, re-openings, setting apart of parish houses, educational buildings, hospitals, private homes, manses, towers and church spires, organs, windows, bells, chimes, choir stalls, paintings, pulpits, fonts, communion tables and communion sets, pulpit lamps and Bibles, church decorations, flags, monu ments, memorial tablets, an illuminated cross, hymn books, for mortgage burnings, etc. vi FOREWORD The second volume, Cyclopedia of Commencement Sermons and Baccalaureate Addresses, solves the problem of preparing for the occasional yet important call in the service of educa tional institutions. Not alone ministers, but college presidents, principals of schools, teachers, school officials, parents and citizens are called upon for timely Commencement and Baccalaureate addresses. It is sure they cannot but welcome aid for this duty and privilege, and in this volume, definitely intended to be a ministrant in behalf of all who are expected to prepare for such occasions, will be found a vast collection of suggestive material from the very best sources. This third volume is a Cyclopedia of Sermon Outlines and Sketches for Special Days and Occasions, being a compen dious assortment of suggestive material for the outstanding days and seasons of the entire church year, also for fraterni ties, etc. a sermon suggestor and inspirer, offering welcome help amid pressing days and duties. One of its most val uable features is a selection of more than fifteen hundred sug gestive texts and themes especially appropriate to the various days and seasons and exceptional occasions. These books are intended for use by ministers of all bodies. They are non-denominational; or, to be more exact, inter denominational. The aim has been to make these associated volumes prac tically indispensable to every preacher, pastor and theological student. G. B. F. H* BRICK CHURCH, R