I stood still as a mouse that I might hear all that was said, and my presence not be noticed.
The Pew was speaking as I went in, and said to the Pulpit, in anything but a reverential tone: "Why don't you speak out on other days as well as you do to-day?
The fact is, I never knew a Pulpit that could not be heard when it was thoroughly mad.

But when you give out the hymn on Sabbaths, I cannot tell whether it is the seventieth or the hundredth.

When you read the chapter, you are half through with it before I know whether it is Exodus or Deuteronomy.

Why do you begin your sermon in so low a key?
If the introduction is not worth hearing, it is not worth delivering.

Are you explaining the text?
If so, the Lord's meaning is as important as anything you will have in your sermon.