God to believers and unbelievers. Andrew W. Blackwood makes the observation that Phillips Brooks, in about half of his 200 published sermons, addressed the seeker after God; and in the other half, the person who had already found him. Spurgeon, in his sixty-three volumes of sermons, followed much the same course, maintaining about the same ratio.9 The sermon which aims at salvation “must be invested with edifying features; and the sermon which is preached primarily for the edification of the hearers
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