The Return to Expository Preaching

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 4, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 5.

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The Return to Expository Preaching

WE wish that preachers would do what the subjoined note calls for. The great difficulty is, to give expositions which will harmonize with the many unscriptural doctrines now held, and satisfy the inquiring listeners who might ask too many questions hard to be answered in an "orthodox way." The word of God, rightly interpreted, will recommend itself. Here is the item:—
The London Sunday School Chronicle remarks that public men have put in an earnest plea for a return to the expository style of preaching, and the plea is meeting with a response. The Chronicle well says: "Let us give the Word the chance of making its own impression. We may be quite sure that it will recommend itself. When people know what it is, they can afford to smile, even at learned German professors, who tell them what it is not."