Author: John Marshall Lowrie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-24

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780666288073

Excerpt from Esther and Her Times, in a Series of Lectures on the Book of Esther But though the fitting word to the occasion is so im portant to the interest and profit of public instructions, we may not therefore argue that every preacher should confine his teachings to his immediate hearers; that printed discourses are unprofitable or that a reader may not, in some degree, sympathize withthe original cir cumstances that are involved in the speaker's words. We contend that no book can displace the living teacher of the gospel; but we claim that much pleasure and profit may be derived from the publication of discourses that have been preached before a congregation, and that bear the marks of adaptation to their particular occasions. There are even advantages which the reader has, especially in a series of discourses, over those that have heard them. If he is willing to make allowances for the feebler pas sages, that are necessary to maintain the connection for the occasional introduction and urgency of thoughts, that appear to him little relevant; for repetitions, that may be natural and proper in discourses separated in their delivery by weeks and months and'for the diffuse ness of style, that suits the pulpit better than the volume, the reader can better get the impression of the whole; better select his own favourable time for the lessons af forded him and better ponder the more forcible thoughts that seem to require more than a single hear mg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.