The best discourses are not manufactured, they are a _growth_.

God's inspired and infallible Book must furnish the text.

The connection between every good sermon and its text is just as vital as the connection between a peach-tree and its root.

Sometimes an indolent minister tries to palm off an old sermon for a pretended new one by changing the text, but this shallow device ought to expose itself as if he should decapitate a dog and undertake to clap on the head of some other animal.

Intelligent audiences see through such tricks and despise them.