Excerpt from Three Dialogues on Pulpit Eloquence
A great French Bishop, who has not long since passed away, Mgr. Felix Dupanloup, of Orleans, speaks thus of the object set before the Christian Preacher: "Men who undertake the ministry of the Word in a serious manner do not speak in the pulpit for the mere sake of speaking, but to teach, to convert, and to save souls." That is a function which has been needful in some form in every age of human history' ever since the Fall, and it is tolerably' sure to continue needful to the end. There have been ministries even in the Church of Christ which have had, as time went on, to be altered in form, or even dropped altogether, because of the change in the outward circumstances of the Church, or in the minds of men (I Cor. xii. 7-10, 28). No such change is likely' seriously to affect the ordinance of Preaching, and that for two reasons: first, because it is based on a fundamental fact in human nature, which cannot in any stage of civilization, be got rid of, i.e.: the influence of one human soul upon other human souls; and next, because it employs that principle in the very simplest form possible. There are many other and more highly' specialized forms of it - the drama, the orchestra, the poem, and indeed, literature in general, especially the daily' and weekly press.
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