The Idea of Preaching

Speech delivered by Candidate H. Hanko at his graduation exercises in Fourth Church.   In the American “church world” – and I put the term in quotation marks – there is a definite lack of emphasis on preaching. No longer does preaching occupy the place that it should in the church institute, and no longer is preaching understood as it really is in the light of God’s Word. Everybody “preaches.” Every small group of people, every board, every society, everybody thinks that they have a right to...