The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning; otherwise it could consists of the wisdom of men.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite, never reach actuality, but lie idle in abstraction, till their light gradually dies away.