A Minister and His Hymn

Abstract

"I found Mr. Page's article" A Lay Preacher and his hymns," which appeared in the last issue of the Baptist Quarterly, of extreme interest; and was gratified, though not surprised, to find that at least one of our splendid body of "local preachers," as Ernest Brown insists they must be called, gives serious thought and attention to the conduct of Public Worship as distinct from the sermon, and has moved a long way from that once prevalent, but most lamentable, conception of a service as comprising sermon and "preliminaries". With most of Mr. Page's comments at the end of his article I find myself in complete agreement, and I hope they will receive the attention they deserve. I read his article in the train en route for the Assembly at the City Temple, where a mischievous fate directed my unwitting steps into the seat next to that occupied by the· editor-who characteristically seized the opportunity, and imposed on me the task of following up the first article with a second."