THE MAN IN THE PULPIT.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1931, Page 3

THE MAN IN THE PULPIT.

“Tile; jargon of our own day speaks Pf ‘getting it across.’ We must certainly get, it; across. But we tnust do , _ more;, than that. We must get it in. vjj; j : A:iid sll Jthe preliihinary steps to get‘ting- itam .are-important; arresting at,rl;v, itontiQUy selecting “the emphasis, eon-' '[?’ s£ruicli : hg^RaS''-' : it were, the melody which runs through the pieces and If which comes again and again through the sermon like a refrain. There are repetitions and pauses and natural j gestures which add to-the effect. There is- all the difference in the world be- | I, • - and -affecting.- Hatred of. affection ■is no,/excuse- for ineffecV tiven^ijiiyWefaim!'air effect, and if wo produce effect we-are poor preachers. importance, of the Choice of words, the method of ap- * proahh, the style arid manner of treatmentj. the attempt to capture-the whole .personality; through imagination and feeling and reason.- The preacher who menus-to be effective should be as variable as the weather in his attack on human personality. . Sometimes lie will . radiate "sunshine, and sometimes blow hard like: the, north wind. S-ome-.,times,,,he,»will thunder and lighten , and ' :\.wbj;ds will, drop softly i- ■- like t-he -(lewf'-Preachers who are all one climate, burn ;iip their congregation i ' ; ,or,;send : them shivering away. Even a -i- • single sdrmon,sliPuld have varieties -of cljmate. The sermon that is all sugary i/or a IP; denunciatory or all sontlnieiTtatfor all an' appeal to cold reason j is a - poor work of art.”—Canon. Guy Rogers, Rector of Birmingham.