that course. Every text has a new course and a new goal. The preacher never becomes exhausted. Perhaps you have heard of the young preacher who ruefully came to the conclusion that he must give up preaching. He had used about all the subjects he could handle and did not care to repeat himself endlessly. An older man advised him to preach on texts, and to cease delivering half-hour lectures on subjects. 6. Thus texts open up an inexhaustible fountain for sermons. They prevent a man from “preaching