Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 11, 1908

Biblical Preaching Still Wanted

A PRESBYTERIAN layman recently sent out some hundreds of letters asking other laymen what kind of sermons they most wished to hear. Out of one hundred two replies, he made up the following summary:—

Guidance in Christian Life .....93 Evangelistic ..................63 Expository ....................51 Doctrinal .....................22 Current topics ................16 Critical ....................... 5

Some of these named more than one kind of sermon. It will be noted that out of two hundred fifty votes cast, only twenty-one are for sermons other than those which are Biblical and evangelical. Had a similar plebiscite been taken among “up-to-date” clergymen as to what kind of sermons they preferred to preach, their utterances in pulpit and in press compel us to believe that the ratio would have been reversed.