WHAT MAY RUIN A SERMON
IMPORTANCE OF LAST FIVE MINUTES.
“ Many sermons are ruined by the last five minutes. Whatever else a preacher ought to prepare, he should make sure of his end. He may make an impressive beginning; he may move freely through the long argument; he may be within sight of the end, and then not know how to finish. He is seen to be in difficulties; he tries this way and that, but in vain. His hearers have forgotten the way that he has come, and are sighing for the end. At last it comes, weak and tame. The ship has gallantly sailed the seas, and is wrecked in sight of
port. “ If I were a lecturer on homiletics I should devote one lecture in every course to ‘ Endings.’ I should tell the young Chrysostoms that if they speak with the tongues of men and of angels and do not know how to end, they will preach in vain.”—Quintus Quiz in the Christian Century.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 3
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