#spener

• The pulpit is not the place for an ostentatious display of one’s skill. It is rather the place to preach the Word of the Lord plainly and powerfully. Preaching should be the divine means to save the people, and so it is proper that everything be directed to this end.

Although our Evangelical Lutheran church is a true church and is pure in its teaching, it is in such a condition, unfortunately, that we behold its outward form with sorrowful eyes.

Where is there anybody who remembers that not only their own support and gain (to which almost all attention is directed) but also the glory of their God and the welfare of their neighbor should be the object of all that they does in their station of life?

Since I must acknowledge that I have nothing which is my own, but that everything belongs to God, and I am appointed to be a steward over it, I am not at all free to keep what is mine when and as long as I please. On the contrary, when I see that, for the honor of the householder and the need of my fellow servants, love demands that I use what is mine, I must not hesitate to offer it as community property which, to be sure, my neighbor cannot demand by civil right but which, according to the divine right of love, I dare not withhold and keep to myself as long as my neighbor’s needs cannot be met in another way.

Eventually God's hour must come, if only we wait for it.

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