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Show It is said that the Rev. David James Burrell. pastor of the Marble Collegiate church of New York, draws a great crowd every Sunday, because he preaches "the same kind of a gospel as that preached in the country church or the old fashioned fash-ioned red schoolhouse." That will not explain his power, because many of the sermons of the old red schoolhoiihe order are shamefully stupid. The secret of successful preaching lies in getting quite as much heart as hraip into a sermon. Many a brainy preacher faila because hia sermon is all brain. From the simplest things the Master when on earth drew his illustrations, and he held his crowds without' any trouble. And. then, the auc-cessful auc-cessful preacher is born a natural preacher. The schools. With the grace of God added, never made one." ' |