However, Justin Martyr’s account of the services in the early Church states that when the writings of the apostles had been read by the lector, the address that followed instructed and admonished the people to take to heart what they had heard read. Thus a text was virtually used. As far as the preaching of Jesus to the multitudes is concerned, and the two addresses of Paul at Athens and at Antioch, these were of a general missionary character, apart from a set service, and thus in their very nature