PAY THE MAN & GO HOME
In 1882, Macmillan published an essay by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy entitled The Decay of Modern Preaching. And at the beginning of this century Canon J. G. Simpson of Manchester bemoaned the absence of authoritative preaching in England: “Not only does the race of great preachers seem for the time to be extinct, but the power of the pulpit has declined… The pulpit of the present day has no clear, ringing, and definite message.” Small wonder that a child, wearied by a preacher’s boring utterance, appealed “Mother, pay the man and let us go home.” From Preachers and Teachers, by J. G. Simpson, pages 222 & 223, as cited by John R. W. Stott, Between Two Worlds, pg. 83
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