The Art of Interesting, Its Theory and Practice for Speakers and Writers #248481

The Tiresome Sermon still handles its merchandise in the bulk, and still uses the Old brown paper and the Old ball of cord. Conventionality and triteness are the chief factors in producing sermons tiresome in thought. They are the uninviting receptacles of Old ideas. Unhappily the competition in the pulpits is not always keen enough to force an improvement in the package. We couldn't beat the contents so we beautified the box, is the catchword of advertisements, which might well be applied to the eternal truths Of faith.