"Sermons are pretty much alike, don't you think?
I know some of uncle Archie's almost by heart.

Really, there is only one thing to say, and you have to keep saying it over and over." "We cannot say it too often," John answered.

"The choice between eternal life and eternal death should sound in the ears of unconverted men every day of their lives." Helen shook her head.

"I didn't mean that, John.

I was thinking of the beauty of holiness." And then she added, with a smile, "I hope you don't preach any awful doctrines ?" "Sometimes the truth is terrible, dear," he said gently.
But when she had left him to write his sermon, he sat a long while thinking.