Download or read book A History of Lay Preaching in the Christian Church (Classic Reprint) written by John Telford and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Lay Preaching in the Christian Church So far as can be discovered, this little volume is the first attempt to write history of lay preaching. It is a fascinating subject. Some of the purest and most saintly Christian workers of both sexes have been lay preachers, and so have some of the wildest fanatics. The interest of the study, however, is not merely historical. It is a living subject full of suggestions for the Christian propaganda of our own times. Earnest men are anxiously inquiring how the multiplied calls for service are to be met. Village evangelism is the oldest and not the least fruitful field of labour for the lay preacher, but the masses of our great cities, and the multitudes who are in darkness in the heathen world, will not be reached without some vast extension of lay agency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.