Charles E. Weniger

A new church hymnal is in the making! Indeed, the last hymns to be included are being chosen, and the completion of the task is actually in sight. On Sunday and Monday evening, July 16 and 17, about a hundred sing­ers met in the Takoma Park…

Probably no greater compliment was ever paid to a man than Mark paid to Jesus when he wrote, "The common people heard Him gladly." But it was not only what Jesus had to say; it was also how He said it, that caused the common people…

The sooner a preacher comes to the point where he intelligently analyzes his own speech, the better preacher he becomes—pro­vided, of course, that he sets about to strengthen his assets and to eliminate his liabilities. Self-diagnosis is…

Shall I tell him his mistake?" It was a lay­man speaking, as our paths crossed the other day.

"What mistake?" I questioned in reply. I did not know who made it, nor did I ask.

It was this way. My layman-friend had heard his…

"Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin."

Is this the way you read or quote Psalms 51:2 of the King James Version? If so, turn to the text and observe that the word in ques­tion is throughly,…

Hold fast the form of sound words." 2 Tim I :13. Paul the preacher, the mas­ter-craftsman in the use of the exact word, was giving Timothy, his "dearly beloved son," a bit of advice on an important aspect of the art of preaching. Apparently,…

This final article in the series selects studies on the art of illustration included in Franklin K. Knower's "Bibliography of Communications in American Schools of Theology" (Speech Monographs, June, 1963).

The Art of…

The three previous lists in this series have covered studies in expository preach­ing, persuasive preaching, and worship, se­lected from Franklin K. Knower's "Bibli­ography of Communications Dissertations in American Schools of Theology"…

This article lists selected studies on wor­ship, including music, from Franklin K. Knower's "Bibliography of Communica­tions Dissertations in American Schools of Theology," published in the June, 1963, is­sue of Speech Monographs. They…

Last month's article began selections from "Bibliography of Communications Dissertations in American Schools of The­ology," by Franklin K. Knower (Speech Monographs, June, 1963), under the head­ing "Expository Preaching." Here is…

A bibliography for ministers is one of those important "first things." In June, 1963, there ap­peared in Speech Monographs, under the title "Bibliography of Communications Dissertations in American Schools of Theology," the first…

IN SEVERAL respects the recounting of Old Testa­ment history differs from that of regular history. Among these differences is the tend­ency of the Old Testament historian to interrupt the flow of history by inserting, on the occurrence…

After observing college students' voices in  speech classes for seventeen years, and the voices of graduate students in my speech classes in the Advanced Bible School for three consecutive summers,…

The one advantage to soup—so runs the  standard jest—is that it can be thinned down to serve any number of persons merely by the addition of that inexpensive commodity, water. But good cooks don't do this. They know that adding water to the…

A little girl had risen with the rise of the preacher's voice and was sitting up­right in her mother's lap. "Whee-ee-ee sounded her shrill voice, as she responded tO the roar that came from the rostrum, where the preacher's…