Excerpt from The Art of Preaching, and the Composition of Sermons: With an Introductory Essay on the on the Present Position and Influence of the Pulpit of the Church of England, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Theological Students and the Younger Clergy Eloquence-acknowledged requirements in a Preacher toned down by popular sentiment - High general Opinion of the English Pulpit - Good preaching popularly indispensable to a Clergyman - Well fur nished Preachers very numerous in our Church Art in Preaching not generally recognized - Immense mass of Preaching materials - Inferior Sermons not without interest and profit - Abundant materials for Sermons Of high character - Lord Carnarvon on popular Preachers - Canon Melville, Dr. Chalmers, and James Parsons, three representative Preachers Tu preaching Art will improve upon N ature - The demands of the Ordinal must make many good Preachers - Great improvement in middle age pos sible - Every Sermon should do honour to Jesus Christ - Remarks of Bishop Tait on this subject 3 57. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.