Lectures on Preaching, Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877 |
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Page 89 - Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 36 - And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles...
Page 235 - And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name ; and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not : for he that is not against us, is for us.
Page 14 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that GOD is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Page 275 - came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance," and that He was called Jesus because He should "save His people from their sins.
Page 62 - The time is out of joint : — 0, cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right ! — Nay, come, let 's go together.
Page 235 - But Jesus said, Forbid him not : for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
Page 93 - Routine is a terrible master, but she is a servant whom we can hardly do without. Routine as a law is deadly. Routine as a resource in the temporary exhaustion of impulse and suggestion is often our salvation. Coleridge told the story when he sang, — " There will come a weary day When, overtaxed at length, Both hope and love beneath The weight give way. Then with a statue's smile, A statue's strength, Patience, nothing loth, And uncomplaining, does The work of both.
Page 178 - Of oratory, and all the marvellous mysterious ways of those who teach it, I dare say nothing. I believe in the true elocution teacher, as I believe in the existence of Halley's comet, which comes into sight of this earth once in about seventy-six years.
Page 83 - Your father has had great trials, obloquy, bad health, many anxieties. One must feel as if Tom were given him for a recompense." He was silent for a moment, and then his mobile face lighted up, and he clapped his hand to his ear, and cried : " Ah ! I hear that shout again. Hear! hear! What a life it was.