p. 154 | Faithful Preaching

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 11, 1869

Faithful Preaching

Sinners cannot bear plain dealing, and when their darling sin is struck at, their hearts swell with indignation. “I hate him,” says king Ahab, concerning Micaiah, “for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” When John the Baptist came to touch on Herod’s particular sin, his beloved Herodias, then John’s head must go for it. A profane gentleman once said of a godly preacher, “He divides his text like a scholar, and follows his doctrine like a logician, but the Devil cannot stand his application.”