When we preach fine sermons our hearers say, “That was prettily put.” They do not so much notice what we taught, as how we taught it, and this is a great evil. Even so if you go and talk about your salvation to your neighbor, and narrate it eloquently, she will say, “Mrs.
So-and-so has been here, and told me about her conversion in such beautiful language; I do not know that I ever heard such elegant sentences; it was most delightful to hear her.” “What did she say?” “I do not know what she said, but it was very beautiful.” Thus many a sermon is overlaid and buried under its own robes.
Conversion is a simple doctrine. Pity that those we seek to bless should be more taken up with our pretty words than with the truth of our adorable master.—SPURGEON.
