The World's Great Sermons, Volume 06: H. W. Beecher to Punshon
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The World's Great Sermons, Volume 06: H. W. Beecher to Punshon
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unselfish thought, not one kind and gentle word, not one act of
self-sacrificing love done for Jesus' sake, in the midst of our
common work, but will have left an indelible impress on the soul
which will go out with it to its eternal destiny. So live, then,
that this may be the result of your labors. So live that your work,
whether in the Church or in the world, may become a discipline for
that glorious state of being in which the Church and the world
shall become one,--where work shall be worship, and labor shall
be rest,--where the worker shall never quit the temple, nor the
worshiper the place of work, because "there is no temple therein,
but the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple thereof."
STORRS
THE PERMANENT MOTIVE IN MISSIONARY WORK
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
RICHARD S. STORRS was born at Braintree, Mass., in 1821. In his
book "Preaching Without Notes," he tells of his early practise and
experience in pulpit delivery. After fifteen years patient effort
he became one of the most accomplished extemporaneous speakers
in America. He wrote much at first, developing a fine rhetorical
style and a rich vocabulary that subsequently served him well as an
impromptu speaker. His advice to divinity students was: "Always be
careful to keep up the habit of writing, with whatever of skill,
elegance, and force, you can command." Because of this early
training in writing he was able later in life to adopt the method
of thoroughly preparing his thought for his sermons, and of leaving
the choice of words and the framing of sentences to the moment of
delivery. His greatest success was achieved after he became a purely
extemporaneous preacher. He was for fifty-four years pastor of the
Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn. During this time he produced a
number of books, of which the most important is "The Divine Origin
of Christianity, Indicated by its Historical Effects." He died in
1900.
STORRS
1821-1900
THE PERMANENT MOTIVE IN MISSIONARY WORK
_Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature._--Mark xvi., 15.
The Permanent Motive in Missionary Work: it is a catholic and
comprehensive, even a cosmopolitan theme. It does not concern itself
simply with the interest of foreign missions, technically so called.
But, if you think of it, it concerns those in every Christian
communion who are trying to further the cause and kingdom of our
Lord on the earth. It concerns not the missionary fields alone, as
they are popularly called, in other lands, but every field in which
Christian service is sought to be rendered, from the obscurest slum
in this town of Boston to the ragged edges of the circumference, the
outmost circumference, of the world of mankind.
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