Volume 13

Far easier does the preacher find it to deliver ten sermons, than to write a page of preface to the annual volume. He can fashion the arrows, but knows not how to embroider the quiver. Yet what imperious custom demands, must be rendered--the Caesar of common usage must have its due.

Last year we availed ourselves of the space to offer apologies, which it would be a nauseous mockery of modesty to repeat, although they are equally as much intended and quite as much required. On this occasion, we shall offer the reader a few sentences of direction as to how to profit best by sermons, whether they are heard or read.

The art of hearing is as difficult as the art of preaching. “Take heed how ye hear,” is an admonition still in season, for many hear the Gospel to their condemnation rather than to their edification.