You have builded temples in His name
Of mortar and brick and stone, With windows of glass most beautifully stained,
With tower and spire and dome; But what do we of the by-ways care
For structure and line and trim? Out in the dust of the lonely road
We only ask for Him!
You have blazed His name across the [...]
It is a very strange thing, Oswald, but people who can scarcely read or write their own names will be eager to tell you how to preach. They can tell you what, how, and when to preach, and hand out advice by the chunks. The less they know the more they can tell you. The [...]
You will be told, Oswald, in schools and divers books, what NOT to do with your hands; but never will you hear or read anything about what to DO with them. Doubtless with your deep intellect and ingenuity you can devise various ways to dispose of them while preaching.
There are preachers who wave them in [...]
The hardest task the preacher has to face is the preaching of funerals, especially those of suicides or non-Christians. Many kind and lovely things may be said of the Christians at death. There is all the comfort of God to be offered to the sorrowing relatives of these. But how very difficult to find any [...]
There are weddings and weddings. There are weddings at five o’clock in the morning and weddings at eleven o’clock at night. There are weddings in the pastor’s study, in the pastor’s home, in the bride’s home, in the church building, in a friend’s garden, in a boat and in an airplane. They are married in [...]
You may try to persuade yourself that this is an ordinary book — in order that you may find comfort in the persuasion - but you cannot do so and be fair to facts.