Conversion A Simple Doctrine

When we preach fine sermons our hearers say, “That was prettily put.” They do not so much notice what we taught, as how we taught it, and this is a great evil. Even so if you go and talk about your salvation to your neighbor, and narrate it eloquently, she will say, “Mrs.

So-and-so has been here, and told me about her conversion in such beautiful language; I do not know that I ever heard such elegant sentences; it was most delightful to hear her.” “What did she say?” “I do not know what she said, but it was very beautiful.” Thus many a sermon is overlaid and buried under its own robes.

Conversion is a simple doctrine. Pity that those we seek to bless should be more taken up with our pretty words than with the truth of our adorable master.—SPURGEON.

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