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Sermons Without the Gospel

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 28, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 14.

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Sermons Without the Gospel

SOMETIMES we hear sermons where the preacher's aim seems to be to make an impression; to present a discourse faultless in structure and delivery, and this main idea crowds out the gospel—not intentionally, but none the less really. We listened, a Sabbath ago, to two sermons from the lips of one of our able evangelical ministers, which, as addresses, were admirable, but as sermons, were failures; that is, if the object of preaching is to turn sinners unto Christ. Had there been in the congregation a person anxious to know the way of salvation, he could not have learned it from the preacher. There was nothing of Christ, nothing of sin or a Saviour.—Sel.