I Have Something to Say
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The third thing in a sermon that is likely to win souls to Christ is, it must be instructive. If people are to be saved by a discourse, it must contain at least some measure of knowledge. There must be light as well as fire. Some preachers are all light and no fire, and others are all fire and no light; what we want is both fire and light. I do not judge those brethren who are all fire and fury, but I wish they had a little more knowledge of what they talk about, and I think it would be well if they did not begin quite so soon to preach what they hardly understand themselves. It is a fine thing to stand up in the street, and cry, “Believe! Believe! Believe! Believe! Believe! Believe!” Yes, my dear soul, but what have we to believe? What is all this noise about? Preachers of this sort are like a little boy who had been crying, and some¬thing happened that stopped him in the middle of his cry, and presently he said, “Ma, please what was I crying about?” Emotion, doubtless, is a very proper thing in the pulpit,
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