Excerpt from The Preacher and the PeopleThis little volume is the substance of three lectures delivered at De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, in April, 1921, on the Matthew - Simpson Foundation for lectures on preaching, a lectureship made possible by the generosity of the daughters of Bishop Simp son. The book deals only with the min ister as preacher. In these days a. Successful church requires much more than preaching. It demands the trained services of educational directors, of church visitors, of highly special ized stafis of institutional workers. In all of these I thoroughly believe, but I do not deal with them here. These lectures are concerned almost solely with the work of the church as that work iscarried forward by preaching.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.