When a body of men come into a neighbourhood to them unknown, as we are doing, my brethren, strangers to strangers, and there set themselves down, and raise an altar, and open a school, and invite, or even exhort all men to attend them, it is natural that they who see them, and are drawn to think about them, should ask the question: what brings them hither? Who bids them come? What do they want? What do they preach? What is their warrant? What do they promise? You have a right, my brethren, to ask the question.
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The preacher’s true motive
St John Henry Newman insists that the preacher is moved not by ambition, power or worldly success, but by the hidden motive of religion
St John Henry Newman

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