week. It is worth the while of preachers to study the psychology of the congregation, and to condescend to that psychology, for it is the psychology of men and women as God has made them, rather than for them to expect the average people in the congregation ever to be able to take the thoughtful preacher’s interest in the mainly intellectual aspects of religion. Let no dull reader imagine that this is a plea for “anecdotal preaching,” the stringing together of ear-tickling stories for their own sake,