From Things to God (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from From Things to God

The sermons in this volume were preached without notes. They were taken down in short hand at the time of their delivery, and are printed as they were reported. Their style, there fore, is that of spoken and not written dis course, and does not so easily lend itself to print. Any attempt to change it, however, would have involved not only a difficult but an almost impossible task. Neither would it have been desirable. The chief effectiveness of a ser mon is after all the personality of the speaker, and while it is difficult to import this into the printed page, it can be done more fully by preserving than by trying to change the original form of utterance. As sermons therefore and not essays these discourses are printed, and it only remains to be said that the purpose of the.

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