Rowland Hill’s Four-Part Sermon
WHEN Rowland Hill was paying his first visit to Scotland, he was carefully warned that his loose and random style of talking would not do among the hard-headed natives of that country, and that he must try to be a little more connected. Accordingly, when he first stood in a Scotch pulpit he said he was to obey the warning, and that he would be very logical and very connected indeed. Having announced his text, he said:— “First, I shall come up to the text; secondly, I shall go round about the text; thirdly, I shall go right through the text; and fourthly, I shall go quite away from the text.” And if the story-teller be veracious, Rowland was most at home under the last head.