Notes
Chapter 1: The Glory of Preaching: A Historical Sketch
. Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching, vol. 1, AD 70–1572 (London: Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran, 1905), 12, 552.
. Dargan, History of Preaching, vol. 2, AD 1572–1900 (London: Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran 1912), 7.
. The Didache, in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (1886. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), 378.
. Justin Martyr, Chapter LXVII: The First Apology (circa. AD 150), in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1886; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962), 186.
. Tertullian, Chapter XXXIX: The Apology (circa AD 200), in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (1885; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973), 46.
. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, Book IV, Chapter 26 (circa AD 200), in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1886; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962), 498.
. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History III (London: SPCK, 1928), 37.2.
. Clyde E. Fant and William M. Pinson, eds., Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching, vol. 1 (Waco: Word, 1971), 108–9.
. Philip Schaff, ed., The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9 (1892, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), 22.
. Schaff, ed., The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 9: 22.
. Charles Smyth, The Art of Preaching: A Practical Survey of Preaching in the Church of England 747–1939 (London: SPCK, 1940), 13.
. Fant and Pinson, Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching, 174–75.
. Smyth, Art of Preaching, 16.
. Smyth, Art of Preaching, 15, 16.
. Contra Fratres, in Fant and Pinson, Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching, 234.
. Erasmus’s treatise On Preaching, in Roland H. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom (London: Collins, 1970), 324.
. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom, 348.
. Martin Luther, A Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, in Ernest Gordon Rupp, Luther’s Progress to the Diet of Worms 1521 (London: SCM, 1951), 85–86.
. Rupp, Luther’s Progress, 85–86.
. Martin Luther, Of the Liberty of a Christian Man, in Rupp, Luther’s Progress, 87.
. Martin Luther in Luther’s Works, vol. 53, ed. Helmut T. Lehmann (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1965), 68.
. Martin Luther, Treatise on Good Works, in Luther’s Works, 44: 58.
. Martin Luther, “Of Preachers and Preaching” (1566) in Luther’s Table-Talk, trans. Captain Henry Bell (1886), paragraph cccc.
. Luther quoted in Rupp, Luther’s Progress, 96–99.
. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1536, trans. F. L. Battles, The Library of Christian Classics, vols. 20 and 21 (London: SCM and Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1960), 4.1, p. 9 and 2.1, pp. 1023, 1041.
. Hugh Latimer, quoted in the “Brief Account” of Latimer’s life which introduces Select Sermons and Letters of Dr. Hugh Latimer (R.T.S. und.) in Works of Hugh Latimer, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Parker Society, 1844), 10.
. Hugh Latimer quoted in J. R. H. Moorman, A History of the Church of England (London: A. & C. Black, 1953), 183.
. Works of Hugh Latimer, 1: 59–78.
. Dargan, History of Preaching, 1: 366–67.
. Irvonwy Morgan, The Godly Preachers of the Elizabethan Church (Norwich: Epworth, 1965), 10–11.
. Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656), 2nd ed., rev. John T. Wilkinson (Norwich: Epworth, 1950), 75.
. Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 81.
. George Herbert, A Priest to the Temple or The Country Parson, His Character and Rule of Holy Life (written in 1632, published 1652), edited by H. C. Beeching (London: Blackwell, 1898), 20–24.
. Cotton Mather, Student and Preacher, or Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry (1726; London: Hindmarsh, 1789), iii-v.
. John Wesley, Sermons on Several Occasions, 4 vols. (1746–60; Norwich: Epworth, 1944), vi.
. Pollock, George Whitefield and the Great Awakening (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973), 248.
. William Carus, ed., Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Simeon (London: Hatchard, 1847), 41.
. Carus, Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Simeon, 28.
. Charles Simeon, Let Wisdom Judge. University Addresses and Sermon Outlines, ed. Arthur Pollard (London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1959), 188–89.
. Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841; 3rd ed., London, 1846), Chapter 4, “The Hero as Priest,” 181–241.
. Herman Melville, Moby Dick or The Whale (1851; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), 147.
. Melville, Moby Dick, 128–34.
. Melville, Moby Dick, 135–43.
. James W. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching (1864; London: Banner of Truth, 1975), 9–10.
. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching, 117.
. G. F. Barbour, The Life of Alexander Whyte (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923), 307.
. P. T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Sons, 1907), 1.
. Charles Silvester Horne, The Romance of Preaching, the 1914 Yale Lectures (Cambridge: James Clarke; Grand Rapids: Revell, 1914), 15.
. Horne, The Romance of Preaching, 19.
. Horne, The Romance of Preaching, 37–38.
. Horne, The Romance of Preaching, 178.
. Alexander Gammie, Preachers I Have Heard (Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1945), 169.
. Karl Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man: A Collection of Addresses First Published in German in 1928 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935; Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1958), 123–24.
. James Black, The Mystery of Preaching, the 1923 Warrack and Sprunt Lectures (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1924; rev. ed., London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1977), 4.
. Black, The Mystery of Preaching, 168–69.
. Hensley H. Henson, Church and Parson in England (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927), 143.
. Henson, Church and Parson in England, 153.
. Henson, Church and Parson in England, 138.
. From The Cost of Discipleship, 1937, in Clyde E. Fant, Bonhoeffer: Worldly Preaching (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 28.
. Bonhoeffer, quoted in Fant, Bonhoeffer, 130.
. William E. Sangster, The Craft of the Sermon (Norwich: Epworth, 1954), 14–15.
. Sangster, The Craft of the Sermon, 7.
. Sangster, The Craft of the Sermon, 297.
. Andrew W. Blackwood, The Preparation of Sermons (Nashville: Abingdon, 1948; London: Church Book Room Press, 1951), 13.
. Karl Rahner, ed., The Renewal of Preaching: Theory and Practice, vol. 33 of Concilium (New York: Paulist Press, 1968), 1.
. Walter M. Abbott, ed., The Documents of Vatican II (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1967), para. 23.
. Abbott, The Documents of Vatican II, para. 25
. Abbott, The Documents of Vatican II, para. 26, pp. 126–28.
. Abbott, The Documents of Vatican II, para. 4, pp. 539–40.
. F. Donald Coggan, On Preaching (London: SPCK, 1978), 3.
. F. Donald Coggan, Stewards of Grace (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958), 18.
. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972), 9.
. Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, 297.
Chapter 2: Contemporary Objections to Preaching
. Clement Welsh, Preaching in a New Key: Studies in the Psychology of Thinking and Listening (Plymouth, MA: Pilgrim, 1974), 32.
. Howard Williams, My Word (Christian Preaching Today. London: SCM, 1973), 1–17.
. F. Donald Coggan, Stewards of Grace (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958), 13.
. The Chambers Dictionary.
. Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857; London: J. M. Dent, Everyman’s Library, 1906), 28.
. Trollope, Barchester Towers, 50.
. Trollope, Barchester Towers, 46–47.
. Trollope, Barchester Towers, 191–92.
. The Guardian Weekly, 19 October 1967.
. P. T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Sons, 1907), 81.
. Theodore Parker Ferris, Go Tell the People, the 1950 George Craig Stewart Lectures on Preaching (New York: Scribner, 1951), 22, 23.
. Ferris, Go Tell the People, 32.
. Donald Coggan, Convictions (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975; paperback 1978), 160.
. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind, 136.
. Welsh, Preaching in a New Key, 102–3.
. Welsh, Preaching in a New Key, 15.
. Welsh, Preaching in a New Key, 109–10.
. Welsh, Preaching in a New Key, 104.
. Welsh, Preaching in a New Key, 114–17.
. R. E. O. White, A Guide to Preaching: A Practical Primer of Homiletics (London / Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans: 1973), 5.
. Henry H. Mitchell, Black Preaching (1970; 2nd ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1979), 26–43.
. Henry H. Mitchell, The Recovery of Preaching (New York: Harper & Row, 1977; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979), 116.
. Mitchell, Black Preaching, 44.
. Mitchell, Recovery of Preaching, 124.
. Mitchell, Black Preaching, 106.
. Mitchell, Black Preaching, 98.
. Peter Fiddick, “None shall sleep,” Guardian Weekly, 31 October 1970.
. James S. Stewart, A Man in Christ (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935; rev. ed. 1972; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1975), 57–58.
. Max A. C. Warren, Crowded Canvas (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974), 143.
. Jonathan Miller, McLuhan, the Fontana Modern Masters series (London: Collins, 1971), 131–32.
. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Routledge, 1964, Abacus 1973), 93.
. McLuhan, Understanding Media, 25.
. McLuhan, Understanding Media, 263.
. McLuhan, Understanding Media, 264.
. Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962), 31.
. McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 31.
. McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 332; cf. McLuhan with Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (London: Penguin, 1967), 125.
. McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 87.
. McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 90.
. Christopher Evans, The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Microchip Revolution (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980), 142.
. Evans, Mighty Micro, 103–9.
. Broadcasting, Society and the Church, Report of the Broadcasting Commission of the General Synod of the Church of England (London: Church Information Office, 1973), 3.
. Marie Winn, The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, and the Family (New York: Viking, 1977), 4.
. Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President 1968 (New York: Trident Press, 1969; New York: Pocket Books, 1970), 23.
. Marshall McLuhan quoted in McGinniss, Selling of the President 1968, 21.
. William Gavin, quoted in McGinniss, Selling of the President 1968, 221.
. Gavin, quoted in McGinniss, Selling of the President 1968, 199.
. McLuhan, Understanding Media, 303.
. Malcom Muggeridge, Christ and the Media, the 1976 London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978), 73.
. Muggeridge, Christ and the Media, 43.
. Screen Violence and Film Censorship, Home Office Research Study No. 40 (London: H.M.S.O., 1977), 126.
. The Future of Broadcasting, the Annan Report (London: H.M.S.O., 1977). See chapter 16, “Programme Standards.”
. Children and Television: A National Survey among 7–17 Year Olds. Commissioned by Pye Limited (Cambridge, 1978), 1.
. Winn, The Plug-In Drug, 4.
. The New Internationalist, No. 76, June 1979.
. Winn, The Plug-In Drug, 80.
. Children and Television, 1.
. Peter Abbs, “Mass-Culture and Mimesis,” Tract, no. 2.
. McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, 117.
. Gavin Reid, The Gagging of God: The Failure of the Church to Communicate in the Television Age (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969), 108.
. David K. Berlo, The Process of Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960), 99.
. Matthew Simpson, Lectures on Preaching (New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1879), 98.
. J. G. Simpson, Preachers and Teachers (London: Edward Arnold, 1910), 222–23.
. E. Michael B. Green, The Truth of God Incarnate (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977), 9.
. G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching (1937; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974), 21.
. Peter L. Berger, Facing Up to Modernity (New York: Basic Books, 1977), 183.
. Berger, Facing Up to Modernity, 186.
. Berger, Facing Up to Modernity, 189.
. Berger, Facing Up to Modernity, 190–91.
. Berger, Facing Up to Modernity, 192–93.
Chapter 3: Theological Foundations for Preaching
. Some of the material in this chapter appeared in the tribute to the late Dr. Wilbur Smith, Evangelical Roots: A Tribute to Wilber Smith, ed. Kenneth S. Kantzer (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1978).
. Cf. the use of these adjectives “better” and “eternal” in Heb. 7:19, 22; 8:6; 9:12; 14, 15, 23; 13:20 and the expression “more glorious” in 2 Cor. 3:4–11 AV.
. I have elaborated the implications of the double authorship of Scripture, especially in relation to human cultures, in my 1979 Olivier Beguin lecture, published by the Bible Society in Australia and UK, and by Intervarsity Press in the United States.
. James Stalker, The Preacher and His Models, the 1891 Yale Lectures (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1891), 93.
. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Word of Truth: The 1970 Nobel Speech on Literature (New York: Farrer, Strausz & Giroux, 1970; London: Bodley Head, 1972), 22.
. Solzhenitsyn, One Word of Truth, 26.
. Solzhenitsyn, One Word of Truth, 27.
. P. T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Sons, 1907), 3, 15, 56.
. Gustaf Wingren, The Living Word (1949; English trans. London: SCM, 1960), 45.
. Wingren, The Living Word, 146.
. Wingren, The Living Word, 207–208.
. Wingren, The Living Word, 108.
. Wingren, The Living Word, 95.
. Wingren, The Living Word, 124.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry: A Collection of Addresses to Ministers and Students (1900; London: Banner of Truth, 1960), 187.
. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972), 24.
. Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching, vol. 1, AD 70–1572 (London: Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran, 1905), 13.
. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536), IV.1.5.
. Calvin, Institutes, IV.III.2.
. John Jewel, Works, vol. 2, 1034.
. Thomas Becon, The Demands of Holy Scripture, in Works, vol. 3, 598.
. Samuel Volbeda, The Pastoral Genius of Preaching (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1960), 24.
. Volbeda, Pastoral Genius of Preaching, 26.
. Volbeda, Pastoral Genius of Preaching, 79–85.
. Michael Ramsey, The Christian Priest Today (London: Mowbray, 1972), 7.
. William E. Sangster, The Craft of the Sermon (Norwich: Epworth, 1954), 92.
. F. Donald Coggan, Stewards of Grace (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958), 46, 48.
. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (New York: Penguin, 1919), 8.
. John Calvin, quoted in Jean Cadier, The Man God Mastered: A Brief Biography of John Calvin, trans. O. R. Johnston (London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960), 173–75.
. Charles Smyth, The Art of Preaching: A Practical Survey of Preaching in the Church of England 747–1939 (London: SPCK, 1940), 176.
. Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae, or Discourses (in the form of skeletons) upon the Whole Scriptures, Preface to vol. 1 (London: Richard Watts, 1819), 12.
. Simeon, Horae Homileticae, 4–5.
. Simeon, Horae Homileticae, 6.
. G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching (1937; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974), 40, 42.
. A. Vinet, Homiletics or The Theory of Preaching, English trans. from French (New York: T&T Clark, 1853), 76.
. Stuart W. McWilliam, Called to Preach (Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 1969), 39.
. Morgan, Preaching, 288.
. Quoted at the 1935 Islington Clerical Conference by the Rev. G. T. Manley. See Authority and the Christian Faith (London: Thynne, 1935), 50.
. R. W. Dale, Nine Lectures on Preaching, the 1876 Yale Lectures (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1877; New York: Barnes, 1878; New York: Doran, 1900), 127.
. Wingren, The Living Word, 201–3.
Chapter 4: Preaching as Bridge Building
. P. T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Sons, 1907), 22.
. George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life (1858; London: Penguin, 1973), 43, 121.
. W. M. McGregor, The Making of a Preacher, The 1942–43 Warrack Lectures (London: SCM, 1945), 45, 46.
. F. Donald Coggan, Stewards of Grace (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958), 70.
. Quoted from Bishop W. S. Swayne’s Parson’s Pleasure (1934), 79, in Charles Smyth, Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959), 470.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 3rd series, 1894; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), 78, 79.
. I do not like the stereotypes that labels perpetuate, but I do not know how to avoid them.
. Clyde E. Fant, Bonhoeffer: Worldly Preaching (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 107.
. Jonathan Miller, McLuhan, the Fontana Modern Masters series (London: Collins, 1971), 113.
. Elma K. Paget, Henry Luke Paget, Portrait and Frame (London: Longmans, Green, 1939), vii, 145.
. W. Williams, Personal Reminiscences of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (London: Religious Tract Society, 1895), 145.
. Charles Silvester Horne, The Romance of Preaching, the 1914 Yale Lectures (Cambridge: James Clarke; Grand Rapids: Revell, 1914), 135, 144–45.
. S. E. Dwight, The Life of President Edwards, vol. 1 of The Works of President Edwards (New York: Carvill, 1830), 606.
. H. Hensley Henson, Robertson of Brighton 1816–1853 (London: Smith, Elder, 1916), 19.
. Henson, Robertson of Brighton, 66.
. Henson, Robertson of Brighton, 92.
. Hensley H. Henson, Church and Parson in England (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927), 60, 61.
. Phillips Brooks, Lectures on Preaching, the 1877 Yale Lectures (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969), 220–21.
. Karl Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man: A Collection of Addresses First Published in German in 1928 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935; Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1958), 100–104.
. Barth, quoted in Arthur Michael Ramsey and Leon-Joseph Suenens, The Future of the Christian Church (London: SCM, 1971), 13, 14.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 3rd series, 54.
. Jean-Jacques von Allmen, Preaching and Congregation (French original 1955; Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1962), 20–29.
. Yngve Brilioth, Landmarks in the History of Preaching, the 1949 Donellan Lectures in Dublin (London: SPCK, 1950), 3.
. James Stalker, The Preacher and His Models, the 1891 Yale Lectures (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1891), 107.
. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Christian Warfare: An Exposition of Ephesians 6:10–13 (London: Banner of Truth; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976), 109.
. Ian Pitt-Watson, A Kind of Folly: Toward a Practical Theology of Preaching, the 1972–75 Warrack Lectures (Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 1976; Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1978), 57.
. Stephen C. Neill, On the Ministry (London: SCM, 1952), 74.
. Stalker, The Preacher and His Models, 199.
. Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656), 2nd ed., rev. John T. Wilkinson (Norwich: Epworth, 1950), 136.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 3rd series, 82, 83.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry: A Collection of Addresses to Ministers and Students (1900; London: Banner of Truth, 1960), 117, 127.
. John C. Pollock, Wilberforce (London: Constable, 1977; Belleville, MI: Lion, 1978), 53.
. Paul A. Welsby, ed., Sermons and Society: An Anglican Anthology (London: Penguin, 1970), 9.
. R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (London: Pelican 1938), 171, in Welsby, ed., Sermons and Society, 16.
. Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind (London: SPCK, 1963), 3.
. Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders: An Introduction to the Techniques of Mass-persuasion through the Unconscious (New York: David McKay, 1957; London: Penguin, 1960), 9.
. Packard, The Hidden Persuaders, 11.
. Packard, The Hidden Persuaders, Part 1.
. Packard, The Hidden Persuaders, Part 2.
. Packard, The Hidden Persuaders, 216.
. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. Myra Bergman Ramos (London: Penguin, 1972), 45–46.
. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 52.
. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 54.
. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 70–73.
. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 96.
. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. See 97, 101, 135.
Chapter 5: The Call to Study
. John Calvin, from his commentary on Deut. 5:23ff.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry: A Collection of Addresses to Ministers and Students (1900; London: Banner of Truth, 1960), 236.
. Phillips Brooks, Lectures on Preaching, the 1877 Yale Lectures (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969), 159–60.
. John Huxtable, The Preacher’s Integrity and Other Lectures (Norwich: Epworth, 1966), 25.
. Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s “Bible Reading Calendar” is available at http://bibleplan.org/plans/mcheyne/ or as a PDF at http://www.mcheyne.info/calendar.pdf.
. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972), 172.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 3rd series 1894; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), 2nd series, 25.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 195.
. Spurgeon, quoted in Richard Elsworth Day, The Shadow of the Broad Brim: The Life-story of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Valley Forge, PA: Judson, 1934), 131.
. Stephen C. Neill, On the Ministry (London: SCM, 1952), 67.
. Anthony Thiselton, Two Horizons (Exeter: Paternoster, 1980; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980), 103.
. The Willowbank Report on Gospel and Culture, Lausanne Occasional Paper No. 2 (1978; Explaining the Gospel in Today’s World, Milton Keynes: Scripture Union, 1979), 11.
. John Wilkins, Ecclesiastes (1646, 3rd ed., 1651), 31.
. Michael Hennell, John Venn and the Clapham Sect (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1958), 84. Josiah Pratt’s notes of the discussions of the Eclectic Society between 1798 and 1814, edited by his son John H. Pratt, were first published in 1856 and reissued by the Banner of Truth Trust in 1978. The original Eclectic Society lapsed at some time in the middle of the nineteenth century. In April 1955, having recognized the need in our generation (which Newton saw in his) for “mutual religious intercourse . . . and the investigation of spiritual truth,” an invitation went out from All Souls Church, Langham Place, to twenty-two younger evangelical clergy to spend a day off together and to refound the Eclectic Society. From that modest beginning it grew spontaneously until by 1966, it had a membership of over 1,000 in seventeen regional groups. It is now limited to evangelical clergy and laity under forty years of age, and is therefore smaller, but still influential.
. David H. C. Read, The Communication of the Gospel, the 1951 Warrack Lectures (London: SCM, 1952), 47.
. Read, Communication of the Gospel, 62–63.
. Read, Communication of the Gospel, 63.
. Austin Phelps, Men and Books or Lectures Introductory for the Theory of Preaching. (New York: Scribner, 1882), Preface, 3.
. W. R. Inge, Diary of a Dean: St. Paul’s 1911–34 (London: Hutchinson, 1949), 12.
. Arthur Michael Ramsey and Leon-Joseph Suenens, The Future of the Christian Church (London: SCM, 1971), 35.
. Joseph Parker quoted in Warren Wiersbe, Walking with the Giant: A Minister’s Guide to Good Reading and Great Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976), 56.
. Wiersbe, Walking with the Giant, 133.
. Alexander MacLaren, quoted in Wiersbe, Walking with the Giant, 37.
. G. F. Barbour, The Life of Alexander Whyte (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923), 286.
. Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, 182–83.
. Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, 173.
. Cyril Garbett, quoted in Charles Smyth, The Art of Preaching: A Practical Survey of Preaching in the Church of England 747–1939 (London: SPCK, 1940), 167.
. Barbour, Life of Alexander Whyte, 282.
. Barbour, Life of Alexander Whyte, 284–85.
Chapter 6: Preparing Sermons
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 2nd series, 1882; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), 4.
. J. H. Jowett, The Preacher: His Life and Work, the 1912 Yale Lectures (New York: G. H. Doran, 1912), 113–14.
. Erasmus from his treatise On Preaching, quoted in Roland H. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom (London: Collins, 1970), 323.
. Joint Liturgical Group, The Calendar and Lectionary: A Reconsideration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).
. Church of England Liturgical Commission, The Calendar and Lessons for the Church Year (London: SPCK, 1969).
. Liturgical Commission, Calendar and Lessons for the Church Year, 7.
. Colin Morris, The Word and the Words (Norwich: Epworth, 1975), 143.
. James S. Stewart, Heralds of God, the 1946 Warrack Lectures (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946), 110–11.
. Douglas W. Cleverley Ford, The Ministry of the Word (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979), 210.
. Joseph Parker, quoted in G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching (1937; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974), 50.
. James Stalker, The Preacher and His Models, the 1891 Yale Lectures (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1891), 166.
. Leslie J. Tizard, Preaching: The Art of Communication (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958), 71.
. Robert Louis Stevenson, quoted in Halford E. Luccock, Communicating the Gospel, The Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching at Yale Divinity School (New York: Harpers, 1954), 205.
. Mary Bosanquet, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968), 110.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 1881 (Grand Rapids: Zondervan), 42.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry: A Collection of Addresses to Ministers and Students (1900; London: Banner of Truth, 1960), 124.
. E. D. Hirsch, Validity in Interpretation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1967), 1.
. R. W. Dale, Nine Lectures on Preaching, the 1876 Yale Lectures (New York: Doran, 1900), 91.
. This account is taken from a personal communication dated 7 December 1979.
. William Carus, ed., Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Simeon (London: Hatchard, 1847), 717.
. Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae, or Discourses (in the form of skeletons) upon the Whole Scriptures, Preface to vol. 1 (London: Richard Watts, 1819), vi, vii. The italics and capitals are Simeon’s own.
. Simeon, Horae Homileticae, vol. 21.
. Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977), 59.
. Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656), 2nd ed., rev. John T. Wilkinson (Norwich: Epworth, 1950), 160.
. Jowett, The Preacher, 133.
. Ian Pitt-Watson, A Kind of Folly: Toward a Practical Theology of Preaching, the 1972–75 Warrack Lectures (Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 1976; Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1978), 65.
. Henry H. Mitchell, Black Preaching (1970; 2nd ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1979), 175.
. Charles Smyth, The Art of Preaching: A Practical Survey of Preaching in the Church of England 747–1939 (London: SPCK, 1940), 27.
. David Gillett, How Do Congregations Learn? (Grove Booklet on Ministry and Worship No. 67, 1979), 12.
. William E. Sangster, The Craft of the Sermon (Norwich: Epworth, 1954), 90.
. Smyth, The Art of Preaching, 177.
. W. Robertson Nicoll, Princes of the Church (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921), 245, 249.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 88–89.
. Smyth, The Art of Preaching, 19–54.
. Smyth, The Art of Preaching, 22.
. Sangster, The Craft of the Sermon, 53–94.
. Luccock, Communicating the Gospel, 134–47.
. Dr. K. D. Bardhan in The Guardian Weekly, 29 January 1978.
. Sir Ernest Gowers, The Complete Plain Words (London: H.M.S.O., 1954), 1.
. Matthew Arnold, quoted in Gowers, The Complete Plain Words, 3.
. Dean Swift, quoted in Gowers, The Complete Plain Words, 119.
. Gowers, The Complete Plain Words, 47.
. Kenneth G. Grubb, A Layman Looks at the Church (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964), 153, 155.
. Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1948), 109.
. C. S. Lewis, Studies in Words (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960), 6–7.
. W. H. Lewis, ed., Letters of C. S. Lewis (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1966), 271.
. Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time: Part 1 The Green Stick (London: Collins, 1972), 171.
. Charles Smyth, Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959), 172.
. Sangster, The Craft of the Sermon, 211.
. See the chapter entitled “The Exemplum” in Smyth, The Art of Preaching, 55–98.
. Smyth, The Art of Preaching, 146.
. William Haller, The Rise of Puritanism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1938), 140, 142.
. Macneile Dixon from chapter 3 of The Human Situation (1937), in Thomas H. Keir, The Word in Worship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962), 65–66.
. Henry Ward Beecher, Lectures on Preaching: Personal Elements in Preaching, the 1872 Yale Lectures (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1872), 127, 134.
. J. C. Ryle, Light from Old Times (London: Thynne & Jarvis, 1924), 408.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 3rd series, 1–3.
. Paul Sangster, Doctor Sangster (Norwich: Epworth, 1962), 275.
. Jowett, The Preacher, 141.
. Sangster, The Craft of the Sermon, 239.
. Theodore Parker Ferris, Go Tell the People, the 1950 George Craig Stewart Lectures on Preaching (New York: Scribner, 1951), 93.
. John A. Broadus, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (1870; new and rev. ed. J. B. Weatherspoon, New York: Harper, 1944), 101.
. A. Vinet, Homiletics or The Theory of Preaching, English trans. from French (New York: T&T Clark, 1853), 269.
. Paul B. Bull, Lectures on Preaching and Sermon Construction (London: SPCK, 1922), 131.
. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, IV.12, in Philip Schaff, ed., The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (1892, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), 583.
. David K. Berlo, The Process of Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960), 12.
. Broadus, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, 210.
. Irvonwy Morgan, The Godly Preachers of the Elizabethan Church (Norwich: Epworth, 1965), 28.
. John Wesley, Journal, abridged by Nehemiah Curnock (Norwich: Epworth, 1949). See the entries for 13 May 1769, 21 May 1774, and 13 June 1779.
. Campbell Morgan, quoted in Edgar De Witt Jones, American Preachers of Today: Intimate Appraisals of Thirty-two Leaders (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,1933), 289; and Alexander Gammie, Preachers I Have Heard (Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1945), 198.
. Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 160.
. Paul White, Alias Jungle Doctor: An Autobiography (Exeter: Paternoster, 1977), 129.
. Dale, Nine Lectures on Preaching, 22–24.
. John Wilkins, Ecclesiastes (1646, 3rd ed., 1651), 25.
. J. C. Ryle, The Christian Leaders of the Last Century or England a Hundred Years Ago, new ed. (London: Thynne, 1868), 53.
. Beecher, Lectures on Preaching, 23–25.
. Beecher, Lectures on Preaching, 236.
. Dale, Nine Lectures on Preaching, 146.
. James Black, The Mystery of Preaching, the 1923 Warrack and Sprunt Lectures (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1924; rev. ed., London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1977), 62.
. Spurgeon, All-Round Ministry, 117–18.
. Simeon, Horae Homileticae, Preface to vol. 1, xxi.
. Richard Bernard, The Faithfull Shepheard (London 1607), 11, 72. Similarly, chapter 7 of John Perkins’s The Art of Prophecying (1631) is entitled “Of the wayes how to use and apply doctrines.” He lists different categories of people and how to relate our message to them (664–48).
. George Whitefield, The Kingdom of God, in Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching, vol. 2, AD 1572–1900 (London: Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran 1912), 314–15.
. This was the conclusion of a sermon preached in All Souls Church by Roger Simpson.
. H. Hensley Henson, Retrospect of an Unimportant Life, vol. 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950), 312–13.
. George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life (1858; London: Penguin, 1973), 48.
. Charles Simeon, in Smyth, The Art of Preaching, 178.
. S. E. Dwight, The Life of President Edwards, vol. 1 of The Works of President Edwards (New York: Carvill, 1830), 605.
. The Best of Dick Sheppard, ed. H. E. Luccock (1951), xix, in Horton Davies, Varieties of English Preaching 1900–1960 (London: SCM and Prentice-Hall, 1963), 103–104.
. E. Clowes Chorley, Men and Movements in the American Episcopal Church, the Hale Lectures (New York: Scribner, 1946), 34–35.
. James Steward, from a private communication dated 30 September 1978.
. Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 158.
. Cotton Mather, Student and Preacher, or Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry (1726; London: Hindmarsh, 1789), 192.
. Luccock, Communicating the Gospel, 12.
. Clyde E. Fant, Bonhoeffer: Worldly Preaching (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 148.
Chapter 7: Sincerity and Earnestness
. Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656), 2nd ed., rev. John T. Wilkinson (Norwich: Epworth, 1950), 162.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1st series 1881; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), 4.
. William Haslam, From Death into Life (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1880), 48–49.
. J. H. Bavinck, An Introduction to the Science of Missions (Nutley, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1960), 93.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 12–13.
. Phillips Brooks, Lectures on Preaching, the 1877 Yale Lectures (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969), 5, 28.
. Henry Ward Beecher, Lectures on Preaching: Personal Elements in Preaching, the 1872 Yale Lectures (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1872), 16.
. Bernard L. Manning, A Layman in the Ministry (London: Independent Press, 1942), 138.
. James Black, The Mystery of Preaching, the 1923 Warrack and Sprunt Lectures (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1924; rev. ed., London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1977), 6.
. Cf. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 2nd series, 45.
. Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 162.
. William Golding, Free Fall (London: Faber & Faber, 1959; New York: Harcourt Brace, 1962), 210.
. Black, The Mystery of Preaching, 23.
. John Poulton, A Today Sort of Evangelism (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1972), 60–61, 79.
. Colin Morris, The Word and the Words (Norwich: Epworth, 1975), 34, 35.
. One is Tony Waterson, professor of virology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith. He is modest enough to say that, on reflection, his comments were “probably brash, ill-considered and immature,” and that they concerned technicalities of structure and delivery rather than the really important questions whether God was anointing the message, Jesus was being exalted, and people were being blessed. But I think he underestimates the help and challenge which he gave me.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 2nd series, 132.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 2nd series, 29.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 131.
. James W. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching (1864; London: Banner of Truth, 1975), 20.
. John A. Broadus, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (1870; new and rev. ed. J. B. Weatherspoon, New York: Harper, 1944), 218.
. Jose Hernandez, The Gaucho Martin Fierro, trans. Walter Owen (1935. Bilingual ed. New York: State University of New York Press, 1967), 241.
. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching, 6.
. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876; London: Pan Books, 1965), 50, 51.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 2nd series, 46.
. John C. Pollock, George Whitefield and the Great Awakening (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973), 263.
. David Smith on 2 John 12 in the Expositor’s Greek Testament.
. Quoted in Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching, vol. 2, AD 1572–1900 (London: Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran 1912), 174.
. Richard Baxter, Poetical Fragments (1681; Farnborough: Gregg International, 1971), 39–40.
. Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 110.
. Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 106.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 138–39.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 140.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 149.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 146.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 148.
. For two articles on Woodforde by Norman Sykes, see Theology, 38, no. 224 (February 1939), and no. 227 (May 1939).
. Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977), 65.
Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge, 162; William Carus, ed., Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Simeon (London: Hatchard, 1847), 445.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry: A Collection of Addresses to Ministers and Students (1900; London: Banner of Truth, 1960), 175.
. Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry, 173.
. Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry, 224.
. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching, 266.
. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching, 25.
. George Campbell Morgan, Preaching (1937; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974), 14, 15.
. Morgan, Preaching, 36.
. Morgan, Preaching, 37.
. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972).
. Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, 97.
. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Christian Warfare: An Exposition of Ephesians 6:10–13 (London: Banner of Truth; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976), 273–74.
. Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 145.
. Elton Trueblood, The Humour of Christ (New York: Harper & Row, 1964; London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1965), 10. Lentulus, made a Roman consul in 14 BC, is said to have given the senate a description of Jesus which included the statement, “It cannot be remembered that any have seen him laugh.” But this cannot be traced back earlier than AD 1680 and is certainly not authentic.
. Trueblood, Humour of Christ, 49–53.
. T. R. Glover, The Jesus of History (London: SCM 1917; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965).
. Glover, The Jesus of History, 44.
. Brooks, Lectures on Preaching, 55.
. Brooks, Lectures on Preaching, 57.
. Josephine Kamm, Men Who Served Africa (London: George G. Harrap, 1957), 154.
. Halford E. Luccock, Communicating the Gospel, The Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching at Yale Divinity School (New York: Harpers, 1954), 192.
. Ronald Knox, Essays in Satire (London: Sheed & Ward, 1928; new edition 1954).
. Horton Davies, Varieties of English Preaching 1900–1960 (London: SCM and Prentice-Hall, 1963), 116.
. Knox, Essays in Satire, 13–15.
. Knox, Essays in Satire, 26–27.
. Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916).
. The Portable Mark Twain (New York: Viking Press, 1958), 736.
. The quotations are taken from a report of the 1979 commencement address which Malcolm Muggeridge gave at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, although in a personal letter dated 24 September 1979, he told me that he had used the “Gargoyle and Steeple” image many times in writing and speaking. “To the best of my memory,” he said, “the notion first struck me at Salisbury, noting that exquisite steeple climbing with crazy audacity into the sky, and then the little gargoyle faces grinning so malevolently down at the earth.”
. Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time: Part 1 The Green Stick (London: Collins, 1972), 98.
. Beecher, Lectures on Preaching, 257.
. Guinness Book of Records (London: Guinness Superlatives, 1980), 228.
. S. E. Dwight, The Life of President Edwards, vol. 1 of The Works of President Edwards (New York: Carvill, 1830), 577.
. E. Clowes Chorley, Men and Movements in the American Episcopal Church, the Hale Lectures (New York: Scribner, 1946), 39.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, 1st series, 144–45.
. P. T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Sons, 1907), 109–10.
. E. M. Bounds, Power through Prayer (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1912), 11. See also Al Martin’s tract for the times, What’s Wrong with Preaching Today? (London: Banner of Truth, 1968).
. Black, The Mystery of Preaching, 37.
Chapter 8: Courage and Humility
. George A. Buttrick, Jesus Came Preaching: Christian Preaching in the New Age, the 1931 Yale Lectures (New York: Scribner, 1931), 133.
. Phillips Brooks, Lectures on Preaching, the 1877 Yale Lectures (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969), 59.
. Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching, vol. 1, AD 70–1572 (London: Hodder & Stoughton and G. H. Doran, 1905), 90.
. John Chrysostom, The Works of St. Chrysostom, in Philip Schaff, ed., The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 10 (1892, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1975), 123.
. Luther’s Works, vol. 21 (St. Louis: Concordia; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1955–1986), 124.
. Luther’s Works, vol. 21, 201–202.
. Elizabeth Whitley, Plain Mr. Knox (Edinburgh: Scottish Reformation Society, 1960), 147.
Whitley, Plain Mr. Knox, 199, 235.
. Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970), 18.
. Herman Melville, Moby Dick or The Whale (1851; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), 142.
. H. Hensley Henson, Retrospect of an Unimportant Life, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950), 27.
. Alexander Whyte, quoted in W. Robertson Nicoll, Princes of the Church (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921), 320.
. Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857; London: J. M. Dent, Everyman’s Library, 1906), 26, 27.
. Colin Morris, The Word and the Words (Norwich: Epworth, 1975), 11.
. J. H. Jowett, The Preacher: His Life and Work, the 1912 Yale Lectures (New York: G. H. Doran, 1912), 107.
. Chad Walsh, Campus Gods on Trial (New York: Macmillan, 1962), 95.
. John C. Pollock, Amazing Grace (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981), 155.
. John Wesley, Journal, abridged by Nehemiah Curnock (Norwich: Epworth, 1949), 250.
. Wesley, Journal, 401.
. Horton Davies, Varieties of English Preaching 1900–1960 (London: SCM and Prentice-Hall, 1963), 13.
. P. T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Sons, 1907), 5.
. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind, 19.
. Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951; New American Library, 1957), 348–49.
. John A. Broadus, Lectures on the History of Preaching, vol. 1 (1876; reprint New York: Armstrong, 1899), 115.
. E. C. Dargan, quoted in Broadus, Lectures on the History of Preaching, 414–15.
. R. W. Dale, Nine Lectures on Preaching, the 1876 Yale Lectures (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1877; New York: Barnes, 1878; New York: Doran, 1900), 231
. I have given in Chapter Six some examples of what, under Michael Baughen’s leadership, we have tried to do at All Souls Church.
. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972), 13.
. Henry Ward Beecher, Lectures on Preaching: Personal Elements in Preaching, the 1872 Yale Lectures (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1872), 249. Beecher was referring to the incident recorded in Dan. 4:28–37.
. Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656), 2nd ed., rev. by John T. Wilkinson (Norwich: Epworth, 1950), 95.
. Dietrich Bonhoeffer from his Christology, in Clyde E. Fant, Bonhoeffer: Worldly Preaching (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 64.
. Ralph G. Turnbull, A Minister’s Obstacles (1946; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1972), 41.
. John Watson, quoted in Leslie J. Tizard, Preaching: The Art of Communication (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958), 40–41.
. Ronald A. Ward, Royal Sacrament: The Preacher and His Message (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1958), 25.
. Robert E. Terwilliger, Receiving the Word of God (New York: Morehouse-Barlow, 1960), 112, 114.
. Donald G. Miller, Fire in Thy Mouth (Nashville: Abingdon, 1954), 18.
. Billy Graham, quoted in Frank Colquhoun, Haringay Story (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955), 164.
. Jowett, The Preacher: His Life and Work, 24.
. Jowett, The Preacher: His Life and Work, 150–51.
. Peter Beavan, Klemperisms: A Few of Dr. Klemperer’s Lighter Moments (Devon: Cock Robin Press, 1974), 2.
. Neville Cardus, The Guardian Weekly, 20 May 1965.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry: A Collection of Addresses to Ministers and Students (1900; London: Banner of Truth, 1960), 322.
. Alexander Gammie, Preachers I Have Heard (Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1945), 24.
. Warren Wiersbe, Walking with the Giant: A Minister’s Guide to Good Reading and Great Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976), 263. See also Spurgeon on “The Minister’s Fainting Fits,” Lecture XI, Lectures to My Students, 1st series (1881; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), 167–79.
. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Twelve Sermons on the Holy Spirit (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1937; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1973), 122.
. This moving exhortation was sent to me perhaps thirty years ago by Canon Fred Pickering, at that time vicar of Christ Church, Southport. It is not to be found in any of the three volumes of Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students, however. Nor is it in An All-Round Ministry or in his Twelve Sermons on the Holy Spirit. I have been unable to trace the reference.
Epilogue
. J. B. Harford and F. C. MacDonald, Bishop Handley Moule (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922), 63.