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Make Your Sermon Plain

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 14.

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Make Your Sermon Plain

THE first thing is to make your sermon plain. Mr. Bloomfield preached on the text "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" Wishing to find out how it pleased his people, he called a poor foolish man to the pulpit and asked him how he liked the sermon. The reply, which made Bloomfield a sadder and a wiser man, was: "Well, sir, I must say I can't agree with you. In spite of all you've said, I think there must be a God."