REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES OF CELEBRATED PREACHERS OR CURIOSITIES OF PULPIT LITERATURE BY THOMAS JACKSON, M.A. PREBENDARY OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL; RECTOR OF STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON BODL LONDON VIRTUE, SPALDING, & CO. 26, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW HE present time is marked by much inquiry into the nature and design of preaching. There is plenty of speculation as to what a sermon ought to be; while a deep-rooted suspicion rests on many minds that the pulpit is gradually losing its power; or that the spirit and temper of the age are unfavourable to the development of great preachers; or that, as a matter of fact, they are not equal to those of the last century; or that in style and method they are, with a few brilliant exceptions, radically defective, preaching platitudes, mere stereotyped formulas, without intellectual or spiritual life. The present volume has been compiled with the view of assisting such inquiries, directing the thoughts of preachers to the modes by which their |