He got through tolerably well; but his audience broke down early, and stayed in that condition to the end.
The fame of the letter spread through the town.

A brother minister came and borrowed the manuscript, put it bodily into a sermon, preached the sermon to twelve hundred people on a Sunday morning, and the letter drowned them in their own tears.

Then my friend put it into a sermon and went before his Sunday morning congregation with it.

It scored another triumph.

The house wept as one individual.
My friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possibly chance to need a sermon.