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tration. Christ likfened the generation in which He lived “to children playing in the market-place.” The temper, habits, play, disposition, o f children are instructive, and may be found helpful in the illustration of certain phases o f trilth. The imagination, within a limited sphere and carefully safeguarded, may be drawn on as a fruitful source o f picture making. It is perfectly proper to invent an illustra tion, providing you let your audience know it is an invention, and do not seek to palm it off on them as having a reality in fact. Such an illustration may be introduced with the words “ It is as if,” or, “ Suppose a case,” or “Let us imagine.” A word or two may bè said here with ref erence to what may be called Object Illus trations. A flower may be used to illustrate the resurrection ; a magnet, thè mysterious power o f the Holy Spirit; a watch, the complex character o f the human frame as it sets forth the wisdom o f God; a blank book, how God keeps à record o f our lives ; an artificial flower, hypocrisy ; a single thread easily broken but being manifolded, is hard to break, the binding force o f habit; an ordinary trap, the deceptiveness o f temptation; the process o f photography, the sensitiveness o f the heart to good and evil influences. . 2. A great restitution. 3. A great truth heralded (v. 10). Conclusion. ' ^Homiletic Review. Theme: The Fourfold Use of Scripture. T e x t : “All scripture is given by inspira tion o f God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”—2 Timothy 3 :16. I ntroduction . Here again four consecutive' words embrace the whole realm o f Scripture profit, and again the order is a part of the inspiration.
tion. Music, painting, sculpture, electricity, wireless telegraphy, radium, astronomy, geology, chemistry, etc.,—all are rich in illustrative material. Then you may draw from the three Kingdoms: animal, vegetable, mineral. Jesus did it: He spoke o f wolves, sheep, goats, camels, insects, birds. He referred to the vine, vegetables, grain, seed, corn, wheat, tares, lilies. Pearls, gold, salt, were used by Him to set forth phases o f truth. Scenes, from domestic life were abundant in his discourses—wardrobe, banking, marriage, grinding, baking. In religious matters He referred to fasting, praying, tithing. In anatomy He spoke o f the lips, heart,, feeling, eyes, body, hands. He made use ' o f astronomy when He referred to the signs- o f the sun and the moon, the falling stars, the condition o f the sky in the morning and in the evening. When He referred to the rocks, the mountains, and the stony places, did He not hint at geol ogy? Even architecture did not escape Him, for He spoke o f the two buildings, the one built on sand and the other on the rock. Music did not meet with a slight from the great Teacher, for He said, “We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.” , Children are an unfailing source o f illus Sermon Theme: The Rich Publican of Jericho Found T e x t : “ This day is salvation come to this house.”—Luke 19:9. 7. Hindrances. 1. Popular difficulty—a publican. 2. Moral difficulty—a sinner. 3. Business difficulty—rich. II. Aids. 1. He had^a desire to see Jesus. 2. He made an effort to see Jesus. 3. H e was willing, to obey Jesus. III. Results. 1. A great confession.-
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