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However, here is something to think of. I do not believe any minister has ever had anyone come to him and say: "Your subject was too clear, too simple, too easy to understand. Please make it more difficult, more involved, for me." Did you ever have anyone say that to you?

The success of this cause does not depend upon our having a large number of ministers, but it is of the highest importance that those who do labor in connection with the cause of God be men who really feel the burden and sacredness of the work to which He has called them. A few self-sacrificing, godly men, small in their own estimation, can do a greater amount of good than a much larger number, if a part of these are unqualified for the work, yet self-confident and boastful of their own talents.

Saints will be edified and sinners convicted and drawn to Christ by a sense that "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." In it there will be no conscious parade of human eloquence. The truth that has been uttered down through the ages, and been a light to the world, will be preached in language that is plain, and with thoughts and sentiments marked with great simplicity. It will be a preaching that follows the Pattern that will lead us to "walk in the light, as he is in the light." It will be preaching through which people may see the chain of truth, link after link, uniting in a perfect whole. But Christ, and Him crucified, will be the center and the science and the song of it all.

It will be the preaching of the everlasting gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue and people. It will be the preaching, and is the preaching, in which the preacher will hid behind the cross and uplift Jesus. It will cry, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world" (John 1:29). "Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him" (Matt. 25:6). Again, and at last, it will be the tongue of fire.

But the New Testament tell only one story -- that a man is a sinner, and he has been redeemed. That the only way to salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to the gospel and all that it entails. Don't talk, I beg you, about value judgments. We cannot use big words and phrases that people don't understand or that change and will become completely outmoded in a few months or years. No man is do dated as the man who tries to use the latest scientific jargon. No man can believe with all his heart what he has already rejected with his head. Before you go into the pulpit bow before the Lord God and ask Him to help you. Remind Him of what He has done for other men in other ages, in other lands, and in your own land, and ask Him to do as much for you.