_PREACHING_ (i.).
The Pulpit a central point in the Ministry--Mutual influence of "parish-work" and preaching--"Truth through personality"--Let us "labour in the Word"--"Litho Sermons"--Addison's village-parson and his sermons--_Attractive_ preaching--Is a duty--Audibility--Of the right sort--Good English--Why to be cultivated--Mr Spurgeon's style--French hearers of an English preacher--Good effects on his style--"Written or extempore?"--Length--Action 225
_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
_PREACHING_ (iii.).
Notes from a Sermon-Lecture--On diction, arrangement, fidelity to the text, proportion of parts, accuracy--On statements about revelation, justification, faith, grace--A paper in _The Churchman_ on Old Sermons--Be a preacher indeed, whatever be the fashion of the time--The Directory of 1645--Its instructions on "the Preaching of the Word"--Spiritual Power in Preaching--How sought and received--Farewell 273
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_"What contradictions meet In Ministers' employ! It is a bitter sweet, A sorrow full of joy; No other post affords a place For equal honour or disgrace"_
"_The Interpreter had Christian into a private Room, and bid his Man open a Door; the which when he had done, Christian saw a Picture of a very grave Person hang up against the Wall, and this was the fashion of it: It had eyes lift up to Heaven, the best of Books was in its hand, the Law of Truth was written upon its lips, the World was behind his back; it stood as if it Pleaded with Men, and a Crown of gold did hang over its head._"