| Show Till riti vciiiMi tn 1IC8 A rentable study particularly to Missionaries In the Held will be found In the Sermons of our Salor and 1111 first followers with regard to the form In which their discourses were dellv ered Nr was there any snore Sue cessitil Preaching on earth and yet II WaR attended by no ostentatious dim play There wore no explosions of boml shells figuratively speaking In the I11ldl of the nUdlnenemlnlcd In the confusion ly n call of sinners to tile mourner bench to find salvation salva-tion There were no blasts of trumpets trum-pets nor boom oC drums In the streets where Jesus of Nazareth passed by A frail boat by tile sea shore was a suitable suit-able pulpit so quiet and unassuming vvere His gestures ft green spot on the mountain aide mhere calmly Ile could sit down and lead the multitudes multi-tudes was Ills favorite plotform And yet theie was the pouer I of eloquence as never felt before There was masterly lerly simplicity the most captivating ornamentation In nil Ills discourses The work of Jesus as n Teacher was largely one of gathering In the honest In heart and giving 10 them the keys of the new dispensation n work similar to that devolving upon Ills messengers In this age At the and of every dispensation such n gathering has taken place That Is I the time when Ills sheep hear Ills voice and follow Him lint It la I the voice of the gentle shepherd not of the bombastic orator that will gather the ords flock Undoubted the whirlwind that rends the rocks and the thunder that causes the earth to tremble make n grand display but It Is I the gentle zephyr that bears on Its wing the presence of the Laid to the brokenhearted wanderer In the desert des-ert The sermons of Jesus should fur nlsh tile Christian world n great lesson |
