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ADVICE FOR PREACHERS

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 4.

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ADVICE FOR PREACHERS.

The following is from the London Record:
  1. Understand your text.
  2. Avoid a display of learning—criticise in the study—teach in the pulpit.
  3. Divide your subject—it helps the hearers.
  4. Speak in short sentences—it helps the preacher.
  5. Use plain words—they are good for all sorts and conditions of men.
  6. Avoid parentheses—they trouble the speaker—they puzzle the hearer.
  7. Apply pointedly.
  8. Rebuke boldly.
  9. Warn lovingly.
  10. Encourage heartily.
  11. Preach frequently with your tongue.
  12. Preach always by your life.
  13. Remember your Master. Seek his glory, not your own.
Old John Owen says somewhere—'To preach the Word and not to follow it with prayer constantly and frequently, is to belie its use, neglect its end, and cast away all the seed of the gospel at random.'