Ministerial Apologies

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 16, 1857

Ministerial Apologies.

It has been frequently the practice of making apologies by way of introduction, though this may be admitted in some singular cases, yet it is often made use of where it is entirely unnecessary, and carries with it an air of pride and affectation. An apology for one's self is often more a reflection than any thing else. If he be not qualified, why have the effrontery to engage? and, if qualified, why tell the people an untruth? Exordiums should be short; some give us an abridgement of their sermons in their introduction, which takes off the people's attention afterwards; others promise so much that the expectation thereby raised is often disappointed.