Electrochemical intercalation and electrical conductivity of graphite fibers

Lamellar compounds of graphite fibers were prepared by electrochemical intercalation. The dependence of the electrical resistance on the intercalate concentration was determined by a quasi simultaneous method. A factor 30 decrease of the relative fiber resistance was obtained with fluorosulfuric acid

Defects of Preaching

At the present time there is no little complaint about poor preaching, and whether we like it or not, we must admit that much poor preaching is heard from Lutheran pulpits also: sermons that are shallow in reference to their Biblical content, sermons that do not supply the needs of the people, sermons poorly constructed, sermons not well delivered. When people sit through a sermon Sunday after Sunday, they ought to be strengthened in their faith, warned against sin, especially the sins of their time, encouraged to lead a Christian life, comforted in their troubles, advanced in Christian knowledge. But some sermons do not supply these very needs. There is too much of a filling in a half hour, more or less, in the pulpit with a talk that is not unorthodox but that does not grip the hearts of the hearers

The Theme of the Sermon

The theme of the sermon is a proposition, or a statement, expressed in a few words. Yet Phelps, in his book of well-nigh six hundred pages, The Theory of Preaching, devotes eighty-two pages (pp. 282-364:) to a discussion of the proposition, or the theme, of the sermon: its definition, necessity, substance, and form. Why? Because of the importance of the sermon theme. The theme is the sermon in nuce; the sermon is the theme unfolded, or developed

Essay or Sermon? Recitation or Preaching?

Some preachers write religious essays, learn them by heart, and then recite them in the pulpit. They have not learned to distinguish between the essay style and the oral style. An essay is not a sermon; a recitation is not preaching

Book Review. - Literatur

Book Review. - Literatu

The Sermon Methods

The three requisites for good sermonizing are: a thorough study of the text, a good outline, and good delivery. Neglecting any one of these will result in poor preaching. What is perhaps mostly neglected in sermonizing is that which is most important: a thorough study of the text. A thorough study of the text is absolutely indispensable for good sermon work. Without it the preacher cannot make a good outline, and without it he cannot be filled up with his subject, which he must be if he would deliver well, for a preacher\u27s delivery is influenced by his mastery of the subject-matter and the conviction and the enthusiasm which it has wrought in bis own heart

The Sermon Methods

When the theme is the chief thought expressed in the text and the parts are deductions from the text, then we have an analytic- synthetic outline. When the theme is a thought derived by way of deduction from the chief thought of the text and the parts are those expressed in the text, then we have a synthetic-analytic outline

Writing and Memorizing the Sermon

Wrong methods make sermon work wearisome toil; right methods make it a pleasant task. Good instruction, based upon the experience of all great preachers and speakers, should not be undervalued. Old and tried methods should not be discarded merely because they are old. The young, inexperienced preacher may prefer to do things in his own way, believing this to be the eaiser way and yet just as effective. The fact is that it is neither. The man, far instance, who reads his sermon in the pulpit will never be a forceful preacher. Reading lacks the directness which makes speaking effective. The preacher or speaker should be the master of his subject, thoroughly understand it, be filled up with it, be eager to tell it to others, and, when before an audience, be unshackled, so that, having his mind on his subject and on his hearers, he will speak not only with his voice but also with his eyes, his facial expressions, his gestures, and, in fact, with his entire body. Is it, then, perhaps advisable that, after all, a manuscript be altogether dispensed with, even in the preparation of the sermon? No, never altogether; in the beginning of a preacher\u27s career not at all

The Training of Ministers

Why should Ministers Go to College? Under this caption the Rev. Carl Hamilton Morgan of Philadelphia wrote an article in the September 17 issue of the Watchman--Examiner, a national Baptist weekly. In his introductory remarks he calls attention to the fact that before the Revolutionary War of nine universities found in the United States all but one were established for the express purpose of training men for the Christian ministry, that until very recent times the history of higher education in this country is largely the history of ministerial education, that the Bachelor of Arts degree was in most of the older colleges a theological degree, but that in the course of time the study of theology lost its place in the college program

Outlines on Gospels Adopted by Synodical Conference

Outlines on Gospels Adopted by Synodical Conferenc