While much may depend upon the conditions in the congregation and much aid may be drawn from the intercessory prayers of our people, the main thing is to have a baptism of fire in our own hearts.

Sometimes a sermon may produce but little impression, yet the same sermon at another time and place may deeply move an audience, and yield rich spiritual results.

Physical condition may have some influence on a minister's delivery; but the chief element in the eloquence that awakens and converts sinners and strengthens Christians is the unction of the Holy Spirit.

Our best power is the _power from on high_.
I would say to young ministers--look at your auditors as bound to the judgment seat and see the light of eternity flash into their faces.

Then the more fervor of soul you put into your preaching the more souls you will win to your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
As I look back over the last sixty years I think I discover some very marked changes in the methods of the American pulpit since the days of my youth.