The Cumberland Presbyterian has very decided views in regard to preaching. It says: 'If preachers do not denounce sin there is no use of preaching. The modern pulpit is emasculated for the want of courage to cry aloud and spare not. The preaching that is most popular is by no means most productive of good results. People that cannot stand plain, pointed, soul-searching preaching are generally living in some forbidden sin. The member who gets mad because the minister pours his anathemas upon dram drinking, gambling, dancing, and cheating, is usually himself guilty of some one or all of these sins. Preaching to please is not preaching; it is truckling, cringing, and fawning. Some ministers waste more time slaughtering the heretical sects or errorists than they spend preaching repentance and the forgiveness of sins.'—Sel.