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To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work
Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) · 56,195 words · 138 reading sections
Interest Of Explanation.
iii. "Preach the Gospel _interestingly_." How shall we secure this? Some recipes for interest are familiar. There is the method of illustration; there is the method of anecdote: both excellent, and almost indispensable. Only, they are methods which have their risks, and must be used with care. Illustrations are apt to …
282 wordsSECTION 122Interest Of Practicality.
Another deep and unfailing secret of interest, so that it be used intelligently and prayerfully, is close akin to this last. It lies in the right sort of _expository_ preaching. I have in my mind such exposition as will be found in Dr Vaughan's sermons on the Philippian Epistle. The charm and power of those sermons lie…
408 wordsSECTION 123*Preach Pardon, But More Also.
iv. "Preach the Gospel _fully_." Here is our great Nonconformist's last adverb, in his recipe for attractive preaching. Its point is not so obvious perhaps as that of the other words, but it is nobly true. "The Gospel" is, as I have said, and as we know, nothing less than Jesus Christ the Lord, in His whole harmonious …
390 wordsSECTION 124Chapter Xii.
To some devoted men it seems impossible not to be always preaching the glory of "Christ _for_ us"; others can never leave the precious theme of "Christ _in_ us." But if they are not missioners, but pastors, they will assuredly find that a _permanent_ attraction can only be secured by doing what the Word of God does--se…
328 wordsSECTION 125Notes For A Sermon-Lecture.
I address myself to write, soon after delivering to my students, in the library adjoining my study, a lecture on Preaching. Let me call it rather, a talk on Sermons, which is a term less grandiose and much more true; for in fact the discourse has been a most informal series of remarks and suggestions on topics suggeste…
308 wordsSECTION 126Preach What Can Be Reported.
(_d_) Avoid altogether such touches of expression as characterise verse, or rhetorical prose. I find in one sermon the sentence, "_Think you_ St Paul trembled at the prospect?" Please re-write this, and say, "_Do you think_ St Paul was afraid?" For you certainly would not say, speaking however gravely, to your friend, …
384 wordsSECTION 127Be Accurate In Statement.
(_h_) Here is a sermon sadly spoiled by a _long introduction_. It tells us much about the circumstances of the inspired writer, but so as to throw little light on the message of the text. Here is another, on the wonderfully definite hope of blessedness after death given us in Phil. i. 21. This also is ruined by its int…
382 wordsSECTION 128"What Is Justification?"
(_b_) I do not like this sentence, which says that the later Prophets had a "_fuller perception_ of" the eternal future than their predecessors. Not that I blame the phrase in itself; but I dislike its associations. There runs a strong drift in modern theology, as we all know, towards the explanation of Scripture by "p…
326 wordsSECTION 129End Of The Lecture.
(_d_) "Why has faith such power to justify? Because, _carried out to its fullest extent, it implies assimilation_ to its Object." Here again I should be alarmed, if I did not know the writer's general convictions, which are sound enough. But this particular sentence again is in full harmony with Romanist doctrine. And,…
510 wordsSECTION 130*Be A Preacher Indeed.
But now let me return from this discursive report of a sermon-lecture to some more central thoughts about the Preaching of the Word. Sacred, solemn theme! I was made to realize its character in a peculiar way quite lately, when reading a heart-searching and most instructive essay, by the Rev. R. Glover, Vicar of St Luk…
389 wordsSECTION 131*The Directory On Preaching.
Let me present to my reader, in this last chapter, an extract from an old book which however may be new to him. The book is not one which as a whole I greatly love; how could I? It is that sternly-imposed substitute for the Book of Common Prayer, commonly known as the Parliamentary Directory of 1645; the exact title is…
374 wordsSECTION 132How The Text Is To Be Handled.
"Ordinarily, the subject of his Sermon is to be some Text of Scripture, holding forth some principle or head of Religion; or suitable to some speciall occasion emergent; or hee may goe on in some Chapter, Psalme, or Booke of the holy Scripture, as hee shall see fit. "Let the Introduction to his Text be brief and persp…
537 wordsSECTION 133How The Message Is To Be Applied.
"In the Use of Instruction or information in the knowledge of some truth, which is a consequence from his Doctrine, he may (when convenient) confirm it by a few firm arguments from the Text in hand, and other places in Scripture, or from the nature of that Common place in Divinity, whereof that truth is a branch. "In …
433 wordsSECTION 134Doctrine And Life.
"But the Servant of Christ, whatever his Method be, is to perform his whole Ministery; "1. _Painfully_, not doing the work of the Lord negligently. "2. _Plainly_, that the meanest may understand, delivering the truth, not in the entising words of mans wisdome, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, least th…
387 wordsSECTION 135The Open Secret.
I have little to say after the recitation of this passage of pregnant and solemn counsel. That little shall be given to a supreme aspect of the whole subject; I mean, Spiritual Power in Preaching. Who that knows the Lord, and contemplates the preacher's work, does not long for Spiritual Power? By that longing he means …
496 wordsSECTION 136A Preacher'S Weekday Thoughts,
So let me close these fragmentary words spoken "to my younger Brethren." May God's mercy be upon the writer. Upon the readers, whom he loves in the Lord, may grace and peace come every hour and day, in secret, in society, in holy ministration of Word and Ordinance. And in due time, when they are no longer juniors but, …
664 wordsSECTION 137_By The Same Author._
_Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, La., London and Aylesbury._ * * * * * THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. 7s. 6d. COLOSSIAN STUDIES. Crown 8vo., cloth, 5s. TO MY YOUNGER BRETHREN ON PASTORAL LIFE AND WORK. 5s. OUTLINES OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. 2s. 6d. (In the _Theological Educator_ Series.) VENI CREATOR: THOUGHTS ON TH…
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