SERMONS J J A STUDY OF THE ART OF SERMONIC By Louis Albert Banks, D.D. PASTOR GRACE M. E. CHURCH, NEW YORK CITY F W FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY Registered at Stationers' Hall, London, England iv JAN 22 1914 An Opening Word For years I have been receiving letters from all over the country, asking how and where I get my illustrations for my sermons. It is in response to this wide interest, evidenced by so many letters, that these chapters have been prepared. I have tried therein to answer the many questions that have been put to me concerning the sources of illustrations and the art of using them. I have also added several hundred fresh illustrations, gathered from everywhere, but especially from the current life and discussion of the world. It is the hope of the author to be useful to his brethren, not only in furnishing helpful and suggestive illustrative material, but also in the greater work of stimulating his readers to original search for such material in the ever-new volume of experience and observation which comes to them with each recurring day. LOUIS ALBERT BANKS. NEW YORK CITY, December 14, 1901. |