Excerpt from Thoughts on Preaching: Specially in Relation to the Requirements of the Age By laymen, it is possible, these remarks have been made with too little consideration for the various and incessant demands which are made upon a clergyman's time as well as with too little sympathy towards those mental and physical conditions, which, as the author of the Rambler so feelingly tells us must greatly affect the intellectual productions of any writer, who condemns himself to compose on a stated day. Still this has not the less disposed the clergy to meet the charges of pulpit failure with unshrinking fairness; or made them unwilling, whenever they have had opportunity of meeting together for mutual conference, to give to the consideration of the subject a distinguished prominence. To the latter proof of a desire among them to enter tain the question honestly, the present work owes its origin. On two occasions of large meetings of clergy, the author was applied to, by his brethren, to prepare a paper on Preaching; -the general subject being given to him at one meeting, and that of Preaching for the Age, at another. On each of these occasions. 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.