The Making of the Sermon: for the Class-Room And the Study
The Making of the Sermon: for the Class-Room And the Study
Thomas Harwood Pattison
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"Half the controver- sies in the world, could they be brought to a plain issue, would be brought to a prompt termination."^ Others besides his own countrymen might have been included in the charge brought against them by Professor Huxley when he said, "Our one great want is lucidity." It will be well for the preacher to estimate at something near its real value the importance of facts as distinguished from theories. Let him first make sure of them, mindful of John- son's assertion, " The hardes...t thing in the world, sir, is to get possession of a fact." With the facts of Christianity it is that he is chiefly concerned, and about them gather the opinions of the age, the drifts of current and transient thought, and the shifting emphasis which almost every year places upon this or that phase of religion, very much as about the mountain peaks gather the clouds and mists and sunshine and shadow of the hour. He must hold fast in his preaching by what Goethe calls "this central and substantial kernel of the matter, which remains unaffected by any change of condition that time can produce, just as a well-conditioned soul is not disturbed by any accident that may befall the body in which it lies encased." (2) This element of argument should be found also in the logical consistency of the sermon.
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