Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A. M.: For Many Years Pastor of a Church in Rutland, Vt., and Late in Granville, New-York

by Timothy Mather Cooley

We infer that ministers should not be proud of their preaching. If they preach the true gospel, they only in substance repeat Christ's sermons.

The holy ambition in preaching is to be faithful not original