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Excerpt from The Contributor, 1893-4, Vol. 15: Representing the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-Day Saints
But many Elders do not agree with me in this. These I desire also to carry with me from the start. It is only just therefore that I stop brie?y to consider this objection.
Whenever it is urged that due at tention be given to the manner of preaching, these at once cry Pre pared sermons! Sectarianism! That's what we left the world to get away from. No, 'take no thought about what ye shall say' - that is the only kind of preaching God is pleased with.
One gray-haired father in Israel whom I approached for ideas, inti mating the purpose I had in view, answered quickly and with great warmth There is nothing to dis cuss the word of God says that he who would preach, must do so by the Holy Ghost, and if he have not the Holy Ghost, he should not preach. Now that is the beginning and the end of the whole matter; for if a man have the Spirit to dic tate him, all the rules and discus sions in the world won't help him, and if he doesn't, he will not need them for he is not permitted to preach.
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