“Apologia pro Sermone”

Professor Adam C  Welch, in an address to the Society, deprecates the tendency which he observes among its members, to devalue the sermon in relation to the devotional parts of the service and seeks to rectify the matter by treating the whole service as primarily an act of faith in which prayer, praise and the witness of scripture and sermon play their distinctive and necessary part in building up the community in witness to its shared faith.