Text extracted from opening pages of book: HE R ALDS OF GOD By
JAMES S. STEWART, D. IX How are they to believe in One of whom.
they have not heard ? And how are they ever to hear, - without a
herald ? And how can men be heralds, unless they are sent by God ?
St. Paul to the Romans. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS COPYRIGHT,
1946, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Printed in the United States of
Ameiica G-s. 6o[ MHJ All nghts reserved. No part of this book may
be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles
Scribner's Sons ROSAMUND ROBIN and JACK PREFACE I HAVE chosen the
title of this book to stress one fundamental fact, namely, that
preaching exists, not for the propagating of views, opinions and
ideals, but for the proclamation of the mighty acts of God. This is
demonstrably the New Testament conception of the preacher's task;
and it is this that will always give preaching a basic and
essential place at the very heart of Christian worship. To write
about preaching is therefore to deal with an enterprise with which
not only the man in the pulpit but the whole worshipping community
is vitally and intimately concerned: a fact which emboldens me to
hope that the pages which follow, addressed originally as Lectures
in the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews to Divinity
students and ministers, will have something to say to the wider
circle of those who Sunday by Sunday are hearers of the Word of
God, loving the habitation of His house and the place where His
honour dwelleth, and perhaps even to the critic in the back pew. I
desire here to record my thanks to the Trustees of the Warrack
Lectureship, for their invitation to 5 HERALDS OF GOD me to
undertake this task ? and to myfriend the Rev. Graham W. Hardy, B.
D., who has revised the proofs. James S. Stewart, NORTH MORNINGSIDE
CHURCH, EDINBURGH. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE 5 CHAPTER I. THE
PREACHER'S WORLD 9 II. THE PREACHER'S THEME . . . . 58 III. THE
PREACHER'S STUDY . 100 IV. THE PREACHER'S TECHNIQUE ... 141 V. THE
PREACHER'S INNER LIFE . . .190 CHAPTER I THE PREACHER'S WORLD There
shall always be the Church and the World And the Heart of Man
Shivering and fluttering between them, choosing and chosen,
Valiant, ignoble, dark, and full of light Swinging between Hell
Gate and Heaven Gate. And the Gates of Hell shall not prevail.
Darkness now, then Light. T. S. ELIOT, The Rock. MONG the tributes
paid to the memory of Sir Walford Davies, one of the noblest was
that of a brother musician. Dr. Vaughan Williams. He dwelt on the
sacrifice which Walford Davies had chosen to make quite
deliberately the sacrifice of the more aloof, self-centred life of
the composer, for that of the organizer, the advocate, the musical
propagandist, the educator of popular taste and opinion; and then
he added: It is an eternal problem that confronts all those who
feel they have the creative impulse' shall I shut myself up from
the world and follow the dic tates of my artistic conscience, or
shall I go down to the world of men and show them what I have
learnt about eternity and beauty?' Walford Davies had no doubts he
was a born preacher and he determined to go and preach to the
Gentiles. This decision, declared Vaughan Williams, was probably
right/' I 9 HERALDS OF GOD fancy that no one who knows what Walford
Davles did for music in this generation will dispute that verdict.
Now the same problem, the same critical decision to which
VaughanWilliams called attention in the realm of creative art,
reappears even more forcibly in religion; and here it is a problem,
not for the few who possess the elusive quality of genius, but for
the whole company of believers. Shall I, as a Chris tian, be
content to pursue the religious quest as a private hobby, and to
develop my own spiritual life; or shall I concern myself personally
for those outside, and take upon my heart deliberately the whole
world's need for Christ ? M No man, with the New Testament in his
hand, can have a moment's hesitation about the answer.
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