Now, pertinent preaching is always interesting preaching.

Nothing interests men like themselves.

And pertinent preaching is just preaching to men about themselves,--about their interests, their losses and their gains, their hopes and their fears, their trials and their tribulations.

Boanerges took both his text and his treatment of his text from his Master, and we know how pertinently The Master preached.

His preaching was with such pertinence that the one half of His hearers went home saying, Never man spake like this man, while the other half gnashed at Him with their teeth.