Ministers must know how to lose arguments on non-essential matters. Care must be taken not to harangue others into silence. Preachers have a way with words. Their whole career is related to the skillful communication of ideas. It is a disgraceful fact that some ministers love to talk and have a habit of dominating discussion on every subject. Even when ignorant on an issue, a preacher can usually out-talk knowledgeable men. Thus in a controversy it is possible to silence men by sheer force of verbiage without convincing them. How exemplary would it be if all ministers exercised self-control over their tongues in the church! It is to be feared that some men are able to handle texts of Scripture who cannot discipline themselves.
Walter Chantry

Charles Finney LECTURES ON REVIVALS OF RELIGION

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revival1 REVIVALS OF RELIGION Also titled Lectures on Revival by Charles Grandison Finney August 29, 1792-August 16, 1875. LECTURE I What A Revival Of Religion Is LECTURE II When A…

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revival2 LECTURE V THE PRAYER OF FAITH Therefore I say unto you, What things so ever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have…

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revival3 LECTURE IX MEANS TO BE USED WITH SINNERS Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen . - Isaiah. 43:10. I the text…

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revival4 LECTURE XIII HOW CHURCHES CAN HELP MINISTERS And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek…

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revival5 LECTURE XVII FALSE COMFORTS FOR SINNERS How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? - Job 21:34. Jobs ' three friends insisted that…

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revival6 LECTURE XXI THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways. - Proverbs 14:14. I cannot conclude this course of lectures, without warning…

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