Secret of Good Preaching

It is recorded of the late Henry Mowes, the celebrated Prussian preacher, that a sermon, with him, "was not the work of a day. It was not a mere outward act; it was an expression of himself. It occupied the whole week. He had it almost daily in his mind. Often would he be found with his first sketch before him, with his eyes filled with tears." Here is the secret of good preaching. A listless week and a Sabhath of interest are just those things which God has not joined together. Spirituality in the pulpit, and the want of it in the study of the preacher, never dwell together in the same bosom.