compilers jealous
for the Word of God--Ministerial use of the Prayer Book--Put
yourself into it--We are not to preach the prayers--Yet we are to
pray them--Reading of the Lessons--Baptism--Marriage--Burial--The
Holy Communion--Reverence--Of what sort--Instruction-addresses
on the Prayer Book--"Less worship" 201

CHAPTER X.

_PREACHING_ (i.).

The Pulpit a central point in the Ministry--Mutual influence of
"parish-work" and preaching--"Truth through personality"--Let us
"labour in the Word"--"Litho Sermons"--Addison's village-parson
and his sermons--_Attractive_ preaching--Is a duty--Audibility--Of
the right sort--Good English--Why to be cultivated--Mr Spurgeon's
style--French hearers of an English preacher--Good effects on his
style--"Written or extempore?"--Length--Action 225

CHAPTER XI.

_PREACHING_ (ii.).

Further remarks on Attractiveness--And, in passing, on
Ministerial Considerateness--This is to be practised in
preaching--As well as in other functions--Attractiveness to be
guarded by Faithfulness--Requisites to attractiveness--"Preach
the Gospel earnestly, interestingly, fully"--Jesus Christ is
_the Gospel_--Personal conviction the essence of
_Earnestness_--"Matter-of-Fact"--_Interest_ sustained by anecdote
and illustration--But still more by intelligibility and
practicality--Expository sermons--_Fulness_ in the message--Jesus
Christ for us--And in us--The Holy Spirit must work with the Word 249

CHAPTER XII.

_PREACHING_ (iii.).

Notes from a Sermon-Lecture--On diction, arrangement, fidelity
to the text, proportion of parts, accuracy--On statements about
revelation, justification, faith, grace--A paper in _The Churchman_
on Old Sermons--Be a preacher indeed, whatever be the fashion of
the time--The Directory of 1645--Its instructions on "the
Preaching of the Word"--Spiritual Power in Preaching--How sought
and received--Farewell 273

_Fordington Pulpit_ 301

_"What contradictions meet
In Ministers' employ!
It is a bitter sweet,
A sorrow full of joy;
No other post affords a place
For equal honour or disgrace"_

OLNEY HYMNS.

"_The Interpreter had Christian into a private Room, and bid
his Man open a Door; the which when he had done, Christian sa