Epistles

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 8, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 32.

Epistles.—Says a noted Jewish teacher: "It is the preacher to whom the people listen, not his discourses. They will read you, not your sermons. Men may admire cleverness; they are only moved by sincere piety. They praise eloquence; they are induced to act by sympathy. If, as a writer quaintly puts it, you preach cream and live skim milk, your ministry will prove a dead failure. Only if the priest be a messenger of the Lord of hosts will they seek the law at his mouth." But the minister will be wanting in all these essentials unless he feeds daily upon the living Word of God, and is daily filled with His Holy Spirit.