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... Relation of Homiletics to Rhetoric ..... 27. Literature of Homiletics ...... PART I. MATERIALS OF PREACHING . CHAPTER I. THE TEXT SELECTION . 1. Meaning of the term Text ..... ............ 2. Advantages of having a Text . 3. Rules ...
... Relation of Homiletics to Rhetoric ..... 27. Literature of Homiletics ...... PART I. MATERIALS OF PREACHING . CHAPTER I. THE TEXT SELECTION . 1. Meaning of the term Text ..... ............ 2. Advantages of having a Text . 3. Rules ...
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... RELATION TO ELOQUENCE . 1. Uses of imagination to the orator ... ? 2. Means of cultivating the imagination .................. . 395 400 PART IV . DELIVERY OF SERMONS . CHAPTER I. THE THREE METHODS OF PREPARATION AND DELIVERY . General ...
... RELATION TO ELOQUENCE . 1. Uses of imagination to the orator ... ? 2. Means of cultivating the imagination .................. . 395 400 PART IV . DELIVERY OF SERMONS . CHAPTER I. THE THREE METHODS OF PREPARATION AND DELIVERY . General ...
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... RELATION OF HOM- ILETICS TO RHETORIC . 7. LITERATURE OF HOMILETICS . PREACHING is characteristic of Christianity . No false religion has ever provided for the regular and frequent assembling of the masses of men , to hear religious ...
... RELATION OF HOM- ILETICS TO RHETORIC . 7. LITERATURE OF HOMILETICS . PREACHING is characteristic of Christianity . No false religion has ever provided for the regular and frequent assembling of the masses of men , to hear religious ...
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... relations to religious truth , and of human life in its actual conditions around us . It was a favorite idea of Cicero that the orator ought to know everything . There is of course no knowledge which a preacher might not make useful ...
... relations to religious truth , and of human life in its actual conditions around us . It was a favorite idea of Cicero that the orator ought to know everything . There is of course no knowledge which a preacher might not make useful ...
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... RELATION OF HOMILETICS TO RHETORIC . The Greek word homilia signifies conversation , mutual talk , and so familiar discourse . The Greek writer Pho- tius ( 9th cent . ) says of Chrysostom's expository sermons on Genesis , that he finds ...
... RELATION OF HOMILETICS TO RHETORIC . The Greek word homilia signifies conversation , mutual talk , and so familiar discourse . The Greek writer Pho- tius ( 9th cent . ) says of Chrysostom's expository sermons on Genesis , that he finds ...
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Page 202 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 58 - I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 368 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...
Page 71 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh : for childhood and youth are vanity.
Page 196 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 202 - And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?
Page 196 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 197 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 374 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 58 - Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.