p. 152 | A Good Hint

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 25, 1870

A Good Hint

T. L. CUTLER, in narrating his ministerial experience, says:

“The year after my licensure, I preached at Saratoga. The next day a baker in the village said to me, ‘Young man! you are a stranger here, and yesterday I pitied you when you began, for you did not know what a critical audience you had to address. But I have noticed that if a minister can only convince his congregation during the first five minutes that he cares for nothing but to save their souls, he will kill all the critics in the house.’ I have always thanked that baker for the best practical hint I ever got.”