The Power of The Pulpit

        The power of preaching is not gone, says C. J. Brown, D. D., of Edinburgh, But, he adds, "I will tell you, though, what is gone. The power of a neat little manuscript, carried to the pulpit and prettily read, that is gone. If such a practice is to continue, the pulpit cannot indeed compete with the press. We shall be miserably beaten in the competition. But carry to the pulpit a different thing altogether; carry to it well-digested thoughts with suitable words to express them, written in your inmost soul; thoughts and words where-with to stir the souls of your hearers to their inmost depths, wherewith to hold living intercourse with them; tell them, indeed, what God has been telling you, and both you and they shall find that the pulpit still wields a power altogether its own.''

"For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." Hebrews 4:12