Lamps Pitchers And Trumpets

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Excerpt from Lamps, Pitchers and Trumpets: Lectures on the Vocation of the Preacher Lamps, Pitchers, and Trumpets. Have taken a text from the wonderful stoiy of that great ancient judge and warrior, Gideon. Do you not remember, when Gideon divided his three hundred men into three companies, he put a trumpet in every mans right hand and a pitcher in the other, and a lamp within the pitcher? And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. Whe7i I blow with a trumpet, blow yc with your trumpets and exclaim. The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon. So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried. The sword of the Lord and of Gideon. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lokd set every mans sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host. The history seems to me to be a parable of the foolishness of preaching; an illustration of the genius and the success of the pulpit its method and its power. 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.