Excerpt from The Making and the Unmaking of the Preacher: Lectures on the Lyman Beecher Foundation, Yale University, 1898 Allow me an opening word in regard to the significance Of a subject in such a course Of lectures as that now before us. A subject, to borrow the homely analogy of our Lord, seems to me to be like the leaven which a woman took and cast into three measures of meal till the whole was leavened. It is the idea, the personal idea, which one casts into the common stock of opinions and experiences and be liefs, and it is to be measured altogether by its quickening and pervasive force. It is not good as a subject beyond its power to leaven. I am proposing to speak to you about The Making and the Unmaking of the Preacher. That is my subject. Outside its reach I have nothing to say about preaching. My subject places us in the discussion, as you see, under the limita tions of the personality Of the preacher. We are also to remember that it gives us the freedom of his personality. How shall we really put ourselves within SO great a matter as that Of preaching? Where is the point of reality? I know of no place where one may so certainly expect to find it as in the consciousness Of the preacher. Around him and above him stretch the vast ranges of truth. They all contribute something to his message. Be fore him is the common humanity. NO thing which belongs to that can be alien to him. But neither truth nor man has any thing to do with preaching until each has found the rightful place in the conscious ness of the preacher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.