The Panacea for the Pulpit.
By Editor
The Independent, in speaking of a recent sermon by Dr. Storrs, well remarks:— "There is only one true panacea for any or all the ills and wrongs and ignorances of men, and that is instruction, the earnest teaching of men who can teach. It is a slow process but the only vital one. What is put deep in the soul develops the character; laws and prisons will not do it. . . . Of course the pulpit will lose its strength if it has not truth to tell, no matter how much faith it may put in the untruths which it preaches. It is the one who has truth to tell that will have the power of true teaching. The man who contradicts the growing knowledge of his generation will lag superfluous behind; and that is right. The people may be more intelligent than the pulpit; and when the pulpit tries to beat back the advance of new truth, it becomes something else than the power of God." Some of the above we have italicized. But the new truth is not to be found by the preacher in the growing knowledge of the world, but in the ever unfolding Word of God. God has truth in that Word for this time, this generation. Christ is coming. The warning message must be given. It can not be kept back by any power. The strength of the pulpit is in bearing God's present message.