The Church at Home and Abroad Volume 6. Books Group
--------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Books Group Page Count: 370 pages Published Date: 01 Mar 2012 Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States Language: Englishhttps://d39ttiideeq0ys.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/2301/9781230179032.jpg ISBN: 9781130772159 Download Link: The Church at Home and Abroad Volume 6 --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 1889 Excerpt: ... be a thing that cannot be printed. A sermon that can be printed is not a sermon. A sermon is a speech, an expostulation, an entreaty, an exhortation, having its quality made up of the very personal elements of the man who delivers it--his accents, his quality of mind, his enlarged sympathy and nobleness. Hence the true sermon is impregnated with elements which cannot be caught, fastened down and presented to the eye. The sermon is not addressed to the eye; it is a thunder that beats upon the ear. You are to blame, as I am, along with all our contemporaries, for the degradation of the sermon. Our contemporary justly prefaces the extract, of which we have given a part, with the remark that " it has all the intenseness and extravagance of his peculiar style, but it teaches a great truth." Are not great truths damaged and discredited by such "extravagance" in uttering them as involves untruth? 288 Our Contributed Articles--The Unlucky Lieutenant. October, We do not deny that there are sermons which produce admirable effects as orallydelivered, which have no "power" in print. But it is equally true that some of the most effective preachers now living have their sermons printed, and widely circulated--some of them in more than one language--and eagerly read by tens of thousands of people. Not to mention Dr. Parker himself, certainly this is true of Spurgeon and Talmage. A half dozen Syrian men, intelligent, evangelical Christians, were accompanying their missionary from their own village to a village half an hour further up Mount Lebanon, to aid him in commencing an evangelical service there. As they walked, they were talking with him of what they were reading at their homes. The missionary, turning to his American visitor accompany... Read online The Church at Home and Abroad Volume 6 Buy and read online The Church at Home and Abroad Volume 6 Download The Church at Home and Abroad Volume 6 ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Church at Home and Abroad Volume 6 Harem Years : The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924 ebook The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau - Volume 06 ebook The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 16 downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry ebook Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI worms world party win 7 64 bit On Truth and the Representation of Reality : A Collection of Inquiries from a Pragmatist Point of View pdf An Autobiography and Letters of the Author of the Listener, Christ Our Law, Etc. (1849) ebook Download PDF, EPUB, Kindle Expect a Miracle : My Life and Ministry ; an Autobiography
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