STREET PREACHING.

Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 10

STREET PREACHING.

TO THE EDITOR Sir. —A few Sundays ago I heard the minister of Knox Church say, in speaking of the mission, that it was never intended that tho preaching of the Gospel was to bo confined to tho four walls of a building. I inwardly agreeo with tho sentiment, and I venture to say that practically all Protestant Christians will echo a hearty “ Amen ” ! Christ did most of His preaching out in the open, and under the canopy ot heaven. Wherever Ho found men He talked to them of spiritual things, and likewise the disciples pleached the Go-pel,., making it their one theme. “ Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel.” Those words have a double meaning, and while the glad message is io be carried into all countries it should also he taken out to the people. “Go into the highways and tho byways and compel them to come in.” It is Iho great lack in the life of the eh lire h to-day tliat the preaching of the Gospel is not heard on the streets in a genera! way. it must, Iw poor, satisfaction to preachers that 1 ln-y pivaeh to practically tho same .people Bnnday alter Sunday.—i am. elr.. , -M. duly