Love, faith and joy

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Preface 9

Foreword 1 1

Preface

These sermons have been asked for by hearers who had found them useful and desired to have them in a permanent form. They are not the sermons I would have chosen of my own accord for publication. I am thankful that they have helped some men and women to find in life some good things of God, and pray that in this form they may cheer and comfort others.

Chicago, February, IQ04.

Foreword

The Reverend John Lindsay Withrow, D. D., Old Park Street Church, Boston.

Live sermons are as good for the soul as live wires are to make things move. Some may say sermons are too much like an omelet, that must be eaten as quick as cooked, else it falls flat. But that depends upon who makes the sermons in question. Some may be only as sillabub, but others as the bread of life that cometh down from heaven, in the strength of which Israel went many days. This volume of sermons from the pulpit of the Third Presbyterian Church may be trusted to serve the nobler ends of inspiration, edification, and illumination. Pastor McCaughan in his place neither wastes time on platitudes nor whimpers the mere dreams of men. He knows the vital truths of the Gospel, and gives them to those who read or hear in full measure. I am glad these sermons are to have a full circulation in Third Church families, and especially among 11

FOREWORD those interested in and united with Erie Chapel. Could my voice effectually invoke still richer and the richest blessings on the work and workers in Erie, it should not be silent a moment. The fruitful services which have been there rendered already are beyond calculation precious. My memory of the years when about eighteen hundred were in attendance on Sunday afternoon are blissful memories. Better men and women than those whom I there labored with never lived, as I think. But the best of it all is the perseverance of the saints represented in those pastors and people who still sow and reap, some thirty, some sixty, and some an hundred fold. Long live Erie, its pastor, superintendent, teachers, and swarm of pupils!