Lost Sermons and Preaching Decadence by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 2, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 30.

Lost Sermons and Preaching Decadence

By Editor

The "Homiletic Review" tells of a preacher in Minnesota who lost his accumulated sermons of twenty years, by shipping them on the railway, and now he wants the railway to pay for them. The Review hopes he "will be able to collect—all they are worth," and questions whether his congregation ought not to be willing to share damages with the railroad, in the expectations of getting original, fresh sermons. The customary use of the "barrel" the Review considers.—Is it alone in this?—"is a nearly infallible sign of decadence in preaching."