Spurgeon's Points For The Preachers

"Mind you avoid inappropriate texts, " said Mr. Spurgeon on e day to his college students. "Oiie brother preacbed on the loss of a ship with all hands on board f rom 'So he bringeth them to their desired haven,' and another retnrning from his marriage holiday : 'The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh, bring me out of my distressl' Mind your figures of speech are not cracked. Don 't talk like the brotber who said, 'I fly from star to star, from chürry beam to cherry beam.' Qet among yonr people or somebody may be saying of yon, as one old lady said of her minister, that he was invisible all the week and incomprehensible on Snndays. Shun all affectation in the pulpit, and mind you never get into the goody goody style. One of this sort said, 'I was readincr this mnmincp in Aonr Hebre we.' "-