Faults in Preaching by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1879

Faults in Preaching.

By Editor

It is possible to speak of faults without earning the reputation of a faultfinder. When it is done in love, for the benefit of the cause of truth, and the fault needs very much to be corrected, it is right to speak. An article in the Herald of Gospel Liberty, speaking of the danger of irreverence in the pulpit, says:—

"When making quotations from the patriarchs, the prophets, or other inspired teachers, how unpleasantly it grates upon one's ears to hear the minister suddenly say, 'Now, Job, what have you to say about it?' or 'Come up here, Lazarus, you are wanted,' or, 'Old Solomon, what can you tell us?' or, 'Brother Paul, what do you know about it?'"

Our memory brings up this very thing which we never heard but with feelings of sadness. Irreverence is the great sin of the age. It belongs to the minister to correct it in others as far as possible, and set an example of correct deportment in this respect, especially in the pulpit.