Preaching Without Notes: A Series of LecturesHodder & Stoughton, 1875 - 233 páginas |
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... congregation , which lawyers were doing all the time in the courts ; and when my plans of life were changed , under the impulse as I thought of God's Spirit , and I had devoted myself to the ministry , I determined if possible to fit ...
... congregation , which lawyers were doing all the time in the courts ; and when my plans of life were changed , under the impulse as I thought of God's Spirit , and I had devoted myself to the ministry , I determined if possible to fit ...
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... congregation not helpful to my plans in regard to this matter of the method of preaching . In a church capable of holding five hundred or six hundred people we had usu- ally , in the winter , a congregation of perhaps seventy - five to ...
... congregation not helpful to my plans in regard to this matter of the method of preaching . In a church capable of holding five hundred or six hundred people we had usu- ally , in the winter , a congregation of perhaps seventy - five to ...
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... some free- dom and confidence from it . The congregation at Brooklyn was certainly larger than the one to which I had ministered before , and it seemed to SERMON AFTER INSTALLATION . 23 me likely to be more 22 PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES .
... some free- dom and confidence from it . The congregation at Brooklyn was certainly larger than the one to which I had ministered before , and it seemed to SERMON AFTER INSTALLATION . 23 me likely to be more 22 PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES .
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... had been made subsequently to that , instead of before it , I never should have been called to that congregation ! I went back to the LECTURES AND ADDRESSES . 25 reading of manuscript sermons , 24 PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES .
... had been made subsequently to that , instead of before it , I never should have been called to that congregation ! I went back to the LECTURES AND ADDRESSES . 25 reading of manuscript sermons , 24 PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES .
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... congregation ; and that helped greatly to preach without a manuscript . The people were more moved by the more direct address , and wel- comed it eagerly . My own mind was more quick with a vivid realization of the meaning and the ...
... congregation ; and that helped greatly to preach without a manuscript . The people were more moved by the more direct address , and wel- comed it eagerly . My own mind was more quick with a vivid realization of the meaning and the ...
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Página 212 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 211 - English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Página 221 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 211 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a u 3 few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Página 230 - And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal ; Goal of all mortal : — Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent ! While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error ; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages : " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless.
Página 229 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Página 230 - Brother, thou art a Man, I think ; thou art not a mere building Beaver, or two-legged Cotton-Spider ; thou hast verily a Soul in thee, asphyxied or otherwise ! Sooty Manchester, — it too is built on the infinite Abysses ; overspanned by the skyey Firmaments ; and there is birth in it, and death in it; — and it is every whit as wonderful, as fearful, unimaginable, as the oldest Salem or Prophetic City.
Página 225 - Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth ; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible, for then he can be trusted...
Página 229 - The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
Página 227 - Style is only the frame to hold our thoughts. It is like the sash of a window ; a heavy sash will obscure the light. The object is to have as little sash as will hold the lights, that we may not think of the frame, but have the most light.