SOUL SAVING PREACHING

by Thomas Cook Publishing

This booklet contains the substance of three or four addresses given at different times to Cliff College Students on the subject of "Soul-saving Preaching." It is not a treatise on Homiletics, but a plain statement of what I learned by observation and experience during the more than twenty years when I was engaged in evangelistic work. It embodies maxims which have slowly formulated themselves, the result of many testings, and which have been proved again and again to work successfully.
Neither piety nor learning can take the place of knowing how to pull in the net, and young preachers need instruction in this particular more than in any other. Socialists are alive to the importance of instructing their propagandists in principles, facts, and arguments, and we must lay ourselves out to help our men to secure the necessary equipment for work so momentous as the saving of souls.
When many who heard these addresses expressed gratitude for help they had received, it occurred to me that if they were published in book form many might be helped to increased usefulness who could not avail themselves of the benefits of the College.
The future of Methodism must depend more and more on the efficiency of those who fill the pulpit, and as five out of seven of our pulpits are supplied by local preachers every Sunday, we can do no greater service to our Church than to increase the effectiveness of these unpaid workers. If to be wise to win souls is the wisdom preachers should possess, this booklet is issued to help them to secure that wisdom, with the earnest prayer that the supply of the Spirit may sanctify the teaching and anoint every reader for the service of the Lord.
Thomas Cook

42 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 28, 1993

About the author

Thomas Cook Publishing is a travel guide publishing house. For over 135 years they have inspired travellers with books that unlock the secrets of destinations around the world.