Show realistic preaching As a preacher especially to the imagination and to the heart dr guthrie was incomparable it has been regarded as one of the greatest proofs of george White fields power that on one occasion he drew such a vivid picture of a ship in distress her masts dismantled her hull bull rapidly filling with water swater and the crew utterly helpless that when he asked what next a sailor in the audience shouted out as if the scene ware were real take to the long boat hardly less striking was the lue effect in dr guthries Guth church on a similar scene tor for it was said he could not preach without a fire or a shipwreck one who was present described it thus one of dr guthries powerful appeals to the unbeliever to close with the offer of tree free salvation through jesus christ he described a shipwreck and the launching of alite boat to save the perishing crew in n such vivid colors that the dreadful scene appeared actually to take place before our eyes f captain C a youny naval officer who was sitting in ijaz front front se aestor ht the he gallery was so electrified that he be to lose all consciousness ness of what wai was around him I 1 him spring to his feet and begin beg I 1 n to take off his coat when u his mother took hold of him and held him down dowa it was some soma time before he could realize where he was he told me after in his mothers blouse that he had become come e oblivious to everything else that the scene up eared so real that he was waa entirely carried away and rose to cast Us his coat and try to man the lifeboat 11 the quiver |