Sermons Need Baling
Poem★★★★One day I was riding along a country highway when I met a farmer with a load of hay so big that it took up the whole roadway. To get around it we almost upset in the ditch. That event furnished me with a valuable homi- letic lesson. I said to myself “If that hay were baled it would not take a quarter so much space and there would be just as much hay,’’ Many sermons are like that load of hay. ‘They need baling. There will be just as much food for your people. Loose hay has thrown many a church attendant into the ditch of non-attendance. For length, remember that you will have another chance to preach; for fervor, preach as if this were your last chance.—Rey. Henry B. Williams.
The point
Henry B. Williams observation: sermons are like loose hay on a road—if baled, they take less space and feed better; brevity plus fervor, preach as if this were your last chance.