Not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 1 Cor. ii. 4. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matt. x. 7.
THE addresses of Jesus were not only wholly unlike any of the productions of the great orators and teachers of that age, but also unlike any effort of those who are generally considered great pulpit orators of to-day. The great difference being this, that the multitude who heard Jesus gladly went away healed, while those who gladly follow the thought of mortal teachers, are made more hopelessly the victims of sin, sickness, and death.
The official testimony of the officers sent to arrest Jesus was, that mortals never had presented the thought that he was presenting to the world. Mortals taught that sin, and sickness, could not be separated from our sense of life, and that death was the doom of all men. But Jesus publicly, and privately, ever presented the thought of Life as untouched by sin, or sickness — of immortality. And those who heard him gladly, went away with a sense of Life and immortality brought to light.
