Excerpt from The Power of the Pulpit: Or Thoughts Addressed to Christian Ministers and Those Who Hear Them Knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not intermeddle with its joy. For the purpose of presenting our subject in as practical a light as I am able, I propose to advert to the fact itself that the pulpit has power; to show what are the constituent ele ments which invest it with this moral influence; to point out the duties of ministers themselves in order to make full proof of the power with which it is invested; and to specify the obligations which rest on the church of God to give it its due place and importance. It is to the first of these thoughts that we shall devote the first five chapters, - the fact itself that the pulpit has power. 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.