“Settle in your mind, that no sermon is worth much in which the Lord is not the principal speaker. There may be poetry, refinement, historic truth, moral truth, pathos, and all the charms of rhetoric; but all will be lost, for the purposes of preaching, if the word of the Lord is not the staple of the discourse.”

—  John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 477.

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Presbyterian pastor from Northern Ireland in New York, died… 1829–1898

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