This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...upon the subject. R--. S--." This query we submitted for answer to one of the most prominent Episcopal clergyman in New York. The following is his reply: "This question will be answered by churchmen very generally according to the school of ecclesiastical thought or usage in which they have been trained. For the custom ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...upon the subject. R--. S--." This query we submitted for answer to one of the most prominent Episcopal clergyman in New York. The following is his reply: "This question will be answered by churchmen very generally according to the school of ecclesiastical thought or usage in which they have been trained. For the custom prevailed very early, no doubt, of preaching from, or of expounding, the gospel or epistle for the day. But we should say, that it is by no means advisable to confine one's self, for text or topic, to the appointed Scriptural selections. The altered conditions of modern life require that the Christian teacher shall discuss many subjects, for which the prescribed lessons may supply no appropriate text. Forced adaptation of a passage for such purpose should be always avoided. In some cases it were desirable, perhaps, that the preacher should irankly set aside the claims of tradilion altogether and preach on a subject without text, rather than force a verse or a paragraph into unnatural service--for modern preaching must needs be much broader and more varied than that of 'the fathers' was. That was largely ecclesiastical or dogmatic, but to-day there is needed a good deal of the ethical and practical, bearing upon new issues in social relations etc.; not to mention the exigencies created by the progress or by the speculations of science. Of course, at the great epochs of the ecclesiastical year, the preacher will follow the line indicated by the presciibed selections, and it is always belter to take a text from some passage just read to the congregation, when its fitness for our purpose is natural and just. But there is danger of too close an adherence to the prescribed order hampering and crippling the mind. J. H. R." "What ...
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Add this copy of The Metropolitan Pulpit, Volume 2... to cart. $64.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
