"THE Canadian Independent has the following about preaching, which is worth reading:— "The preaching of the first two or three centuries was more like the teaching now in a ' Bible class.'
Questions were frequently asked and answered.
When it was not conversational it was expository. Every one will testify that his thirst for information is best satisfied and the matter learned sticks best in the memory when the information is obtained at the very moment the mind is excited on the subject."
So much the worse for the "modern methods." It would seem that there ought not to be much hesitation about letting a modern method go, and returning to the scriptural method.
It is certain that the preaching of Christ and the apostles was of the conversational or teaching style."
The Present Truth 1893