SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 35.

SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.

SOME revivals are "got up." Others come down. Revivals where the evangelist is the chief attraction are those that come up—from the pit.

Let us have the kind of revivals that make the Zaccheuses pay back what they have taken by fraud.

There is a wide difference between church loyalty and church bigotry.

In nine cases out of ten, apologies are made before preaching for the purpose of leading the people to believe the opposite of what the preacher is saying. Long introductions spoil sermons. Too much soup takes away the appetite for dinner.

Fretting babies do not disturb the preacher, but inquisitive people do, who turn around to look.

Don't tell your pastor that you "enjoyed" the sermon. If you cannot say it helped you, say nothing about it.

People who serve God only when they feel like it, never do a full day's work.

If some preachers would not try to do so much, God would do more for their congregations.

The word "ought," thoroughly learned, is a boy's best equipment.

Two half Christians do not make one whole one. They make zero.

The church of God is not a house of "attractions." The lust of entertainment and the teaching of the cross do not go together.

What is there funny about the ten commandments or the sermon on the mount? Let those who are clamoring for "spicy preaching" answer.—Selected.