On Preaching and Preachers, Inaugural Address - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857. Excerpt: ... PREACHING AND PREACHERS. TTAVING consented to the publication of the----foregoing "Address," several friends suggested to me the desirableness of appending to it some further observations on The Style and Manner of Pulpit Ministrations, than were compatible with the necessary brevity of the Address itself, and limits of the public service. It was urged by them that this was second only in importance to the subjects themselves of pulpit discussion; the remarks which had been made upon them being incomplete without some special reference to the style of their delivery. These observations, therefore, I have deemed it best to present in the form of Addenda. They will be taken, I am persuaded, by the readers of them, as the results of experience. I can entertain no doubt of their acceptableness to my younger brethren in the ministry, seeing they are made in the most friendly spirit, and are sincerely directed to aid them in attaining to eminence and great success. They may hereby trace the steps by which the most efficient preachers have reached such eminence, as well as observe the causes of failure in others. I assume that the great object which these younger brethren have in view is to become acceptable, useful, and, in the best sense of the word, popular preachers; and it will afford to me a gratification of no mean order to have assisted any of them, in however small a measure, in the attainment of the great object to which they have devoted their life and labour. The natural qualifications requisite to form a good preacher are not difficult to be found combined in the same individual. He must, of course, be possessed of fervent piety, an ability to acquire and communicate knowledge, a heart susceptible of tender emotions and full of ardent affections, ch...