Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. ' He preached unto them Jesus and the Resurrection.' Acts, xvii. 18. OERMONS and addresses on religious subjects are perhaps more frequently criticised, canvassed, and talked about, than addresses on any other class of subjects; and it is not altogether unnatural that it should be so, because when man takes up the task of speaking to his brother men and women about things that concern their immortal souls, he assumes a great responsibility, and necessarily exposes himself to remark and criticism. How often, for instance, do we hear people say, ' What a pity it is that Mr. So- and-So does not preach the simple Gospel! What a pity that he preaches so much about this doctrine and that doctrine, and does not simply preach Jesus !' Now, my friends, if we want to get models of preaching we should go back to the Apostles. They had just come from the Cross of Calvary; or, as with St. Paul, from the vision of Jesus Christ. They had just come from that little upper room, where they were endued with power from on highto preach Christ's Kingdom and to establish His Church (for the two are one and the same) in this world, and to set before men the means of saving their immortal souls. And what do we find was the main subject of the Apostolic preaching? It was 'Jesus and the Resurrection.' And let us ask ourselves why it was that in the foundation of this Kingdom of Christ among men the Apostles chose to speak first and foremost of the Resurrection? Why was it that they based their preaching so constantly on the Resurrection, and led men to think even more deeply about that miraculous event than about the Crucifixion ? Surely it was because the very teaching that we need for our lives here on earth, as well as for our salvation after death, is, in effect, the teaching of the Resurrec...