Eureka Reporter | 1904-04-08 | Page 5 | His Way to Outwit the Devil

HIS WAY TO OUTWIT THE DEVIL preachers on on prepared and extemporaneous sermons apropos of the question of tha best way to prepare a sermon rei G campbell morgan the great eng elsh evangelist Is credited with hav ing told the following story to a class of bible students at the seminary an aspiring young curate once asked an old preacher it it were better to write out a sermon or to preach ex tho venerable clergyman who was noted for his rambling discourses replied my son never write out your sermon for the devil will be sure to look over your shoulder and get warning beforehand now when I 1 preach the devil himself could not tell what I 1 am going to say this remark was almost as bated as that of the old darky dr thomas used to tell about who was asked to explain the diffee ence between a preacher and an exhorter A preacher said the son of ham has to stick to bis text but the ex horter can branch