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Title: The Message and the Man:
Some Essentials of Effective Preaching

Author: J. Dodd Jackson

Release Date: December 6, 2009 [EBook #30609]

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_THE FOURTEENTH HARTLEY LECTURE:_

The Message

and the Man:

Some Essentials of Effective Preaching

BY

J. DODD JACKSON.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

W. A. HAMMOND,

PRIMITIVE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE,

HOLBORN HALL, CLERKENWELL ROAD, B.C.

1912.

TO

THE MEMORY

OF

The Rev. James Jackson

A PRIMITIVE METHODIST PREACHER

FOR FIFTY-FIVE YEARS

AND

PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE

of

1897

THIS BOOK IS

AFFECTIONATELY AND REVERENTLY

DEDICATED

BY

HIS SON.

"'A WORKMAN' NEEDING 'NOT TO BE ASHAMED,
RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.'"

PREFACE.

It would be strange, indeed, if in the procession of annual volumes of
which this lecture is an unit, there did not arrive a book about
preaching. The work of the preacher holds so large a place in the
service and worship of God; it is, to all appearance, so essential to
the accomplishment of the purposes of the Redeemer; its content and
quality mean so much to the life and health of the Church; it has
played--and is destined to play--so great a part in the saving of
mankind, that, sooner or later, it was bound to come within the purview
of this lectureship.

Now that, at last, the inevitable has happened, it may be said that the
following pages have been written under the conviction that one of the
greatest needs of the present day is a _pulpit revival_--a revival
which will issue in a new endeavour to realise the highest
possibilities of the divinest of callings. Many of late years have
wandered from the fold of the Church; mighty is the multitude of those
who have never been within her fellowship. The author is more than
convinced that any attempt to claim and reclaim must, to be successful
on a large scale, commence in a renaissance