The spoken word : or, The art of extemporary preaching, its utility, its danger, and its true idea. With an easy and practical method for its attainment

The spoken word : or, The art of extemporary preaching, its utility, its danger, and its true idea. With an easy and practical method for its attainment

Author: Potter, Thomas Joseph, 1828-1873

Year: 1872

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Extemporary Preaching — What it is not — Its true idea, 1 CHAPTER II. Extemporary Preaching is not the expedient of the slothful man to save himself trouble — Whether Extemporary or Written Discourses are the more useful and effective - Certain qualifications which are indispensable to success in the Extemporary Preacher, 11 CHAPTER III. Selection of the subject — Its great importance and its influence upon the success of the sermon — Ordinary and extraordinary efforts — Converting Sermons — The common Sunday Discourse or Homily, 27 CHAPTER IV. The Conception of the Subject — Every good Discourse will be the development of one great Leading Idea — The people only remember one thing at a time — The unity of thought and conception which is necessary to the speaker at all times and on all occasions is doubly so to the Extemporary Preacher, since he is doubly exposed to the danger of wandering from his subject, 41 CHAPTER V. In order to conceive our subject we must first meditate it deeply and thoroughly — Want of thought a great deficiency of modern sermons — The Modern Orator must be a man of keen intelligence, and possess the habit of close and earnest thought,