Confidential to Ministers.
By Dr. King
MAKE no apologies. If you have the Lord's message, deliver it; if not, hold your peace. Have short prefaces and introductions. Say your best things first, and stop before you get prosy. Do not spoil the appetite for dinner with too much thin soup. Leave self out of the pulpit and take Jesus in. Defend the gospel, and let the Lord defend you. Do not get excited too soon. Do not bawl and scream. Too much water stops mill-wheels, and too much noise drowns sense. Empty vessels ring the loudest. Powder is not shot. Thunder is harmless, lightning kills. Do not scold the people. Do not abuse those who do come to church because the lazy ones do not attend. Have a good time with those who do attend, and the others will hear of it and turn out to see what is going on.—Dr. King.