IT is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching Christianity stands or falls. This is surely so, at least in those sections of Christendom which rest less upon the Church than upon the Bible. Wherever the Bible has the primacy which is given it in Protestantism, there preaching is the most distinctive feature of worship. But, preaching a feature of worship! I will ask leave to use that phrase provisionally, till, at a later stage, I can justify the place of