T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S in his mind—earnestly, interestingly, fully.” The Gospel should be preached Scripturally as Christ did (John ill,14- 18), preached simply as Paul did (1 Cor. xv, 1-4), preached earnestly as Peter did (Acts ii, 14-40), preached lovingly as John did (1 John iv. 9-14), preached earnestly as Philip did (Acts viii, 35-40), preached effectually as the woman did (John iv. 42), preached passionately as the Apostles did, that is in the power of the Spirit (1 Pet. i. 12), and preached practically by a consistent life as the Thessalonians did (1 Thes. i. 7-10). Afraid of the Truth. What a fearful menace to the. spir itual life of a church is an attitude on the part of its ministers that shuts their mouths on vital truths that God is en deavoring to bring before the peo ple because these ministers fear the consequences to themselves! Standing in the position of messengers of the Lord 'they refuse virtually to be His mouth pieces, instead filling their mouths with soft sayings and compromising statements that make a show of a mes sage but fail utterly to arouse the guilty or encourage the saintly. Such may some times put great vehemence into their talk, emphasize it with gestures' and declare that what they say is the message of God, but the thing aimed at does not exist in the congregation and the .arrow of their own making fails to hit the mark. vA great show of courage in denouncing some public sin may after all but be the substance under which the cowardly minister hides his fear to declare the simple message that un covers private sin in the congregation, sin that it is better he does not know ex ists except by revelation.—Wm. M. Smith.
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PREACHING HINTS Don’t Be Tied to Paper.
An old Scotch lady was told that her minister read his sermons. She disbe lieved it. Said one, “Go into the gallery and see!” She did so, and saw the writ ten sermon. After the preacher had concluded his reading on the last page, he said, “But I will not enlarge----- ” The old lady cried out from her lofty position, “Ye canna, ye canna; fer yer paper’s give oot!” Over Their Head*. A learned theological professor was once engaged to address a Sunday school. He read a number of verses from the Bible and then said, “Children, I intend to give you a summary of the truth taught in this portion of the Scripture.” Here the pastor touched him, and suggested that he had better explain to the school what “summary” meant. So he turned round, and said to the children, “Your pastor wants me to explain what sum mary means; and I will do so. Well, children, summary is an abbreviated ^ synopsis of a thing.” Where Potoer Comes From. Charles G. Finney in mighty revival tours took with him not a great singer, but Father Nash, a man of power in prayer. And while Finney preached in the meeting Nash was in his room on his knees or on his face in pleading with - God. Finney himself prayed all night with a wonderful faith, and it'was that praying that made Finney’s revivals the deepest, farthest reaching, and most mar velously permanent of all revivals in mod ern times. How, then, can we resume such praying toward Pentecost? How get the church to resume it? “The way to resume in to resume.” Spurgeon on “Adverbs.” Spurgeon once said, “That the pastor who would be a blessing must preach the Gospel, and preach it with adverbs
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