Homiletic Review Volume 20; An International Magazine of Religion, Theology and Philosophy (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...is on him, and that the vote he casts is the expression not merely of his political but his religious principles, then he has preached wisely and expediently. 2. He must preach in love so that his pastoral relations to his people shall in nowise be affected. Each and all must continue to feel that he is their spiritual guide and helper, one whose sympathy is unfailing, whose earnest desire for their soul's welfare is the predominant idea in all his life. 3. He must preach in humility, genuine humility, not laziness or cowardice. Some men appear humble because they are unwilling to take the trouble to make up their minds, others because they are afraid to take the consequences of plain speaking. The truly humble preacher is not the man who is always saying " it seems to me," "but I maybe mistaken," etc., but the man who with clear and firm convictions yet realizes that he is not God, and that his wisdom is not inSnite, that whatever wisdom he may have is not his own but came from the Spirit of God, and that that Spirit speaks in very diverse ways the one great truth of God. To preach this is not merely lawful but expedient. Would that from every pulpit throughout the land such sermons might reach those whose eyes are dimmed by the glamour of political gain, whoseearsare dulled by the clang of political strife As a nation never have we had a keener sense of what was right, never have the foes of right been more insidious or more powerful. Let the pulpit speak, but be careful that it speak from the Bible, that it speak in love, that its voice be not the thunder of personal ambition, but the still small voice of the Spirit urging men to do what they know to be right. Church Attendance. "why do so few mechanics, artisans and laborers at...