How His Sermons Grow

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 1, 1870

How His Sermons Grow.

A LAY brother made the following remark of his minister, whose pulpit talents were quite ordinary:

“Our pastor comes to the pulpit Sunday morning and preaches a little sermon; and in the afternoon he comes again and preaches another little sermon. In the evening he comes into the prayer-meeting full of love, and we all have a good time, praying, singing, and exhorting. Then on Monday, after spending the forenoon in his study, he goes out and sees a family of his congregation, and talks to them about Jesus; he does the same on Tuesday and each day of the week, and by Saturday night the little sermons on Sunday have grown into big ones.”

One can easily conceive how a people would be satisfied with such preaching. Reverse the matter. If great sermons on the Sabbath become little ones during the week by manifest inconsistencies, would it not destroy all pulpit efficiency?—Canadian Independent.