Preachers Must Reach the People

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Acts 5:19-20

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,…

A minister whose congregation numbers about forty all told rejoiced in the smallness of it, because he professed that a greater work could be done with a few than with a large number. In answer, a friend suggested that he should infer from that statement that a greater work could be done with no people at all. This reduced the hypothesis to an absurdity. "I am sure," said one, "that the better a man preaches the smaller his congregation will become." This shows what a large number of very excellent preachers we have in London. But our business is to reach the people somehow.

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