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Sensational Preachers and Their Lasting Harm to the Church

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 31, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 5.

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Sensational Preachers and Their Lasting Harm to the Church

“SENSATIONAL” preachers, said the Rev. R. W. Dale, in his first lecture before the Yale Theological School, are most commonly mere charlatans. They have neither the fire of human genius nor the fire of a divine zeal. They win a transient popularity; but they inspire no intellectual respect, they command no lasting confidence. Their popularity is a shame to the church.