e comes it that my nature is subdued
To that it works in, like the dyer's hand.

_Pulpit Form._ Respect your hearers. Do not gird at them; angle
for them--and agonize. Address yourself to one at a time--first
to the man in the pulpit. He who has hit himself first will not
miss others. He who trembles at the word of the Lord, men will
tremble at his word. (Borrowed) A preacher must either be
afraid of his audience or his audience of him.

_Janua Domini._ Always enter the pulpit by the Door (John x. 7).

_Contents and Omissions._ Put everything you can into every
address. Omit everything you can from every address.

"_Faith cometh by hearing._" Therefore, to begin with, be
audible. The Sermon on the Mount commences thus: "He opened His
mouth" (Matt. v. 2).

_Time and Eternity._ Speak to men's fleeting hopes and passing
interests; speak also to their grey hairs and to their midnight
hours.

_Ultimata._ Desire to prophesy (1 Cor. xiv. 1); covet to
prophesy (_ib._ 39); do not preach if thou darest be silent (1
Cor. ix. 16).

LECTURE VIII.

THE PREACHER AS AN APOSTLE.

Gentlemen, in the two last lectures we have investigated two of the
principal sources--perhaps I might say the two principal sources--of a
minister's power--his manhood and his Christianity. These may be
called the two natural springs out of which work for men and God
proceeds. Out of these it comes as a direct necessity of nature. If
anyone is much of a man--if there be in him much fire and force, much
energy of conviction--it will be impossible for him to pass through so
great an experience as the reception of Christianity without making it
known; and, if he be much of a Christian--if there be in him much of
the spirit of Christ, which is the spirit of self-sacrifice and
benevolence--it will be impossible for him to refrain from approaching
men in their sin and misery and endeavouring to communicate to them
the secret of blessedness. He will make but a poor minister who would
not be an earnest worker for God and man, even if he were not a
minister.

These impulses were conspicuously strong in St. Paul. Yet there was
also another source from which he drew the motives of his ministry.
This was the fact that God had appointed him to the office of an
apostle and allotted him a specific sphere of activity as the apostle
of the Gentiles.

The other two sources of motive are, as I ha