Excerpt from A History of Lay Preaching in the Christian Church We find some anticipations of coming days in the patriarchal age. St. Jude's words almost entitle us to describe Enoch as the first lay preacher. His message told of coming judgement for ungodly deeds and ungodly, blasphemous words. The Lord should appear with ten thou sands of His saints to vindicate truth and Show the world that His face was against sin (jude vv. 13. Enoch's name is still surrounded by a halo of sanctity and of mystery. He walked with God, his divine Friend. His life gave force to his message, whilst his strange departure from the scenes of his witness-bearing must have given it abiding emphasis. When the hour of visitation was drawing near, another preacher of righteousness arose. Noah's words were rendered supremely impressive by his daily work. While the ark was a-pre paring, for one hundred and twenty years he continued to plead with his neighbours. His conduct condemned the world (heb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.