Preaching from Notes and Manuscripts

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 17, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 43.

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Preaching from Notes and Manuscripts

FIFTY years ago, a written sermon in a Methodist church was almost unknown. Now the rule is to preach from notes or full manuscript. Whereas, on the other hand, the moderators of both Presbyterian Assemblies preached this year without a line of notes; and at a public gathering held lately in one of our cities, at which a number of Presbyterian ministers and others spoke, the only persons who read their speeches were a lawyer and a Methodist preacher.—Standard and Home Journal.