The Spoken Word
Subtitle: Or The Art Of Extemporary Preaching, Its Utility, Its Danger, And Its True Idea. With An Easy And Practical Method For Its Attainment, Etc
Publisher: M.H. Gill and Son
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: Extemporary Preaching — What it is not — Its true idea, 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: Extemporary Preaching is not the expedient of the slothful man to save himself trouble — Whether Extemporary or Written Discourses are the more useful and effective - Certain qualifications which are indispensable to success in the Extemporary Preacher, 11; title: CHAPTER III.; title: Selection of the subject — Its great importance and its influence upon the success of the sermon — Ordinary and extraordinary efforts — Converting Sermons — The common Sunday Discourse or Homily, 27; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: The Conception of the Subject — Every good Discourse will be the development of one great Leading Idea — The people only remember one thing at a time — The unity of thought and conception which is necessary to the speaker at all times and on all occasions is doubly so to the Extemporary Preacher, since he is doubly exposed to the danger of wandering from his subject, 41; title: CHAPTER V.; title: In order to conceive our subject we must first meditate it deeply and thoroughly — Want of thought a great deficiency of modern sermons — The Modern Orator must be a man of keen intelligence, and possess the habit of close and earnest thought, 47; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: Two principal methods of meditating a subject, the Direct and the Indirect — Few men are competent to employ the Direct — Nature of the Indirect Method — We must know where to look for matter and how to read — How a man may make the thoughts of another his own, and the only way in which it is lawful to do so, 55; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: The Arrangement of the Matter of our discourse — Absolute necessity of such order and arrangement — Its true idea — Opinions of St. Francis Borgia, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Francis de Sales, St. Vincent de Paul, etc., on this subject, 65; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: The two great methods of presenting a subject, by "plan," or by " view " — Obvious danger of the " formal plan ' — Method of proceeding by "view" — Lacordaire — This method is not suited to men of ordinary talents — Superior advantages of the " plan," 74; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: Plan of a discourse — General object of the plan and its relation to the discourse — What the educated laity say of the eloquence of the pulpit, 86; title: CHAPTER X.; title: The plan of a discourse the fruit of deep thought and of much reflection — Essential properties of a good plan — Its influence on success, 94; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: Proximate preparation of the sermon — The preacher at work — How to parcel out the week in the most useful and practical manner — Plan of a sermon, 109; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: The preacher in the pulpit — Realization of his plan — How to introduce his subject — The practice of employing a written exordium and other choice morsels of eloquence in an extemporary discourse, 127; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: How to seize the subject — Difficulty of laying down general rules — The advantages of a clear division in enabling a preacher to seize his subject — The qualities of a good division deduced from a consideration of the office and dignity of the preacher, 144; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: How to seize the audience — The power of seizing our audience is absolutely necessary to perfect success — In what this power consists — The Christian orator must know how to teach and to move, how to appeal to the intellect and the heart — Instruction and argumentation, their force, nature, and essential qualities, 169; title: CHAPTER XV.; title: How to present the subject in a popular shape — Amplification, real and false — Nature of true amplification — The essential part it plays in the success of the sacred orator, 192; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: Word-painting — Its force, its employment, and its proper place in popular preaching — How it may be abused — Father Paul Segneri — Rowland Hill — Dr. Newman, etc., 210; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: How to conclude — The danger of unduly prolonging the discourse — Various methods of concluding — The crisis of the sermon, how it is to be managed, and the immense importance of employing it properly — Recapitulation, its nature and objects — The appeal to the passions, and how it is to be conducted — Examples : Massillon, St. Liguori, Segneri, Manning, Newman, 236; title: CHAPTER XVIII.; title: Style of the Pulpit — Style of the pulpit is essentially popular — Characteristics of a popular style, in the true acceptation of the term, 265