Nothing beats down and discourages a man more than to feel that he is preaching to cold air and not to human folks, and to get back, when he offers sympathy, a stare.

"Long ago you preached in our church in Dundee," said Mary.

" At last his preaching of common morality is put to the highest test.

Here is Wesley's record of one day's work: "May, 1747, Sunday, 10.I preached at Astbury at five, and at seven proclaimed at Congleton Cross Jesus Christ our wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

The trouble is not, that the ministers preach on social themesall themes that concern the life of man are social themes.

As the three biggest boys in the school, they had little difficulty in inducing their companions to join in the crusade which they preached against The Birches, and the consequence was that the two schools were soon exchanging open hostilities with greater vigour than ever.

The minister kissed the fiddler's wife, And he couldna preach for thinkin' o't.

The first four of these Sermons were preached before the University of Cambridge.

I thort ef you'd use this one till preach from.

Many men preach about saloons, when they ought to be preaching about Christ.

"'Father,' he said, 'thy son hath preached with faithfulness and acceptance, and turned thousands unto righteousness.

Thus fitly, as became her already historic part in it, Susanna Wesley may he said to have launched the important institution of lay-preaching in the Church that bears her name.

And then, when I got away into the hard, stagey world of Chicago, and my manager talked business to me, and my last playwright preached of technique, I began to wonder whether, after all, you could bring your ideas together like this, whether you would have a sense of perspectiveyou know what I mean, don't you?

Yet, by indefatigable exertion, maintained during many years, he became able to write and speak it fluently, though, not correctly, and even to preach without an interpreter.

And as with great fervor he was going on the way, he lifted up his eyes and beheld some trees hard by the road whereon sat a great company of birds well-nigh without number; whereat St. Francis marvelled, and said to his companions: "Ye shall wait for me here upon the way and I will go to preach unto my little sisters, the birds."

Swadeshi is preached as an item of non-co-operation, as a demonstration of the spirit of sacrifice, and it is an item which every man, woman and child can take up.

They cared nothing and understood less of the political theories which the revolutionaries assiduously preached among them, but they pricked up their ears when the agitators began to talk about land and taxation.

This office was nearly always the same in psalms, in hymns and in every part; so that Sunday after Sunday, for many years, there was very little change in the Sunday united-prayer part of the liturgy, although the preaching on the incidents of the life of our Lord (Beckel, Messe und Pascha, p, 91), the blessings and the thanksgivings relieved the service from monotonous sameness.

St. Paul Preaching at the Foot of the Acropolis After the painting by Gebhart Fügel.

[Illustration: MOFFAT PREACHING TO THE BOERS.]

They may dictate like Dr. Johnson, or preach like Coleridge in a circle of admirers, or give vent to sarcasms and paradoxes like Carlyle; but they do not please like Horace Walpole, or dazzle like Wilkes, or charm like Mackintosh.

"The popes," it was said, "should no longer unite the cup of the eucharist with the sword; it was their vocation to preach, and to confirm what they preached by good works.

By the year 1300 the Miracles were out of ecclesiastical hands and adopted eagerly by the town guilds; and in the following two centuries we find the Church preaching against the abuse of the religious drama which it had itself introduced, and which at first had served a purely religious purpose.

It is but fair to select a specimen of Evangelical preaching from one of its most celebrated and popular champions * *.

She found the Wishart Church, named for the famous preacher, George Wishart, who in 1544 had preached near the place where the church was built.