1.I 00. SERMON-MAKING

    Chapter 9: SERMON-MAKING.

NOTHING could well be more unlike the preaching of the apostolic times than that which exists in the regular and organized churches of the modern days in Christendom.

I often wonder that there has been no sect formed upon the basis of preaching. The Church has been divided in reference to baptism, seeking a literal imitation of the primitive practice. It is organized and reorganized on the question of organization. The world has been full of contending sects upon matters of exact interpretation of doctrine. Almost the only possible point on which a sect could be built, that has been left unoccupied, is the sermon.

Why have we not had sects declaring that we must preach sermons precisely after the patterns of the apostolic sermons?