
Have you ever tried preaching 150 sermons per year to the same congregation?
Have you ever tried to get along with all people and yet please the Lord?
Have every pondered over a way to move people to assemble at every service
Did you ever try to encourage Bible study when many stayed home?
Did you ever spend hours each week in preparation of lessons and at least an hour and a half to deliver them and feel that little was accomplished?
Have you ever tried to bind up a broken heart or re-establish a divided home?
Have you ever tried to love when others hate, or praise when some condemn?
Did you ever put your every energy to convert a soul and get no response?
If not, you cannot know what it means to be a preacher.