Preaching Today

Abstract

"I am an Anglican - perhaps I may dare to say, an Anglican preacher - ordained in St. Paul's Cathedral more than fifty years ago. I take this opportunity, however, to express my debt to some great non-Anglican preachers, one or two of whom I have lived sufficiently long to have seen, and I mean seen. I saw them at work, I saw the packed churches when they preached, I saw the rapt attention on the part of the listeners in the pews, heads almost craned forward. And I have to say that our younger clergy and ministers today, for the most part, and our modern congregations, having never seen preaching of this order, not surprisingly place little store by it. There are more worthwhile pastoral activities, they reckon, than taking much trouble with the pulpit ministry"