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Preachers Must Experience the Truth

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 11, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 50.

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Preachers Must Experience the Truth

By F. W. Gunsaulus

AND this is the message which I want to give to the pastors of the day. Preachers must experience the truth which they proclaim. They cannot go into their studies and hunt truths or ideas out of books, and then go and proclaim them second-hand to their people, and expect great results. Experience cannot be borrowed, and without it a sermon is only a second-hand affair. We cannot have renewed strength in the pulpit until we have men who have realized in themselves the value of what they are proclaiming. I do not say that we do not already have many such men, but what I say is that we must have more of them and more of it.—Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus.