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SEVEN YEARS' STREET PREACHING

IN

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

CHAPTER I.

STREET PREACHING.

"WHY do you preach in the streets and highways?" I answer,

I. BECAUSE IT IS A DUTY ENJOINED BY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

The "great commission," under which every true embassador goes forth in the "ministry of reconciliation," by direct implication, enjoins the duty of out-door preaching: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." Did the apostles understand the Great Teacher to mean that they were to preach in the temple, in the synagogues, in "hired houses," and "upper rooms?" Certainly. Did they understand him to mean nothing more than that? Certainly not. They well knew that the temple, and the synagogues, and all the house room

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