On Sermon Preparation Recollections And Suggestions
On Sermon Preparation Recollections And Suggestions
William Boyd Carpenter
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He believed he was imitating Newman. Not less important than delivery is the choice of good illustrations. To the uneducated, nothing rivets the teaching like an apt illustration. But here let the preacher beware and be sure that he knows the technicalities of his subject. A cele- brated Mission-preacher the other day unfortunately utterly destroyed the effect of his address to the gardeners and others who were present by inform- ing them that the good fruit-tree was obtained by grafting a wild... branch on to a good stem ! When a dockyard Chaplain, I once secured the aid of an eloquent American bishop, whose sermon certainly riveted me. The next day, meeting the boatswain of the yard, who was a great critic, I remarked to him, " That was a grand sermon, Mr. S, that we heard yesterday. " " Well, I don't know, sir, " he replied, in the same deep roar which he had used when he was Lord Nelson's boatswain's mate, " I only hope he knows his own business better than he knows mine. " "Why, what was the matter } " exclaimed I.
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