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Ephesians 3:3

How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery; (as I wrote before in few words,

Very wisely does an American writer say, "There is a mighty difference between preaching the everlasting gospel and preaching the gospel everlastingly." There is no end to the truth, but there should be an end to the sermon, or else it will answer no end but that of wearying the hearer. A friend who occasionally visits the continent always prefers the passage from Dover to Calais, for a reason which we commend to the notice of certain prosy speakers — it is short. If you speak well, you will not be long; if you speak ill, you ought not to be so. We commend to the verbose brother the counsel of a costermonger to an open-air preacher — it was rather rude, but peculiarly sensible — "I say, old fellow, CUT IT SHORT."

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