[{"id": "16076", "words": "63589", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "62", "author": "Fitch, Albert Parker", "title": "Preaching and Paganism", "date": null, "keywords": "chief; christian; church; consciousness; doctrine; eternal; experience; expression; faith; feeling; footnote; god; good; heart; human; humanism; jesus; knowledge; law; life; man; men; mind; moral; naturalism; nature; need; new; old; order; place; power; preacher; preaching; present; reality; reason; religion; self; sense; sin; society; sort; soul; spirit; things; thought; truth; understanding; values; way; world; worship", "summary": "That wherein a man cannot be equaled, says Confucius, is his work which other men cannot see. Our humility is not like that of Uriah Heep, a mean opinion of ourselves in comparison with other men.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "30609", "words": "61077", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "72", "author": "Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)", "title": "The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching", "date": null, "keywords": "christ; church; concerning; day; days; divine; end; faith; god; good; gospel; great; hard; heart; jesus; knowledge; life; lord; love; man; men; message; mind; need; new; passion; people; pity; power; preacher; preaching; pulpit; sake; sermon; service; soul; spirit; things; time; truth; way; word; work; years", "summary": "For the vast majority of men life is actually a struggle for bread for themselves and their dependants. Concerning such men but a few words, and those in reply to the reminders that we are continually receiving of the ineptitudes and inaptitudes of preachers.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "39231", "words": "53590", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "88", "author": "Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)", "title": "Joel: A Boy of Galilee", "date": null, "keywords": "abigail; boy; child; children; day; eyes; face; father; friend; god; good; hand; home; house; jesse; joel; life; like; look; love; man; master; men; morning; night; people; phineas; place; rabbi; saw; simon; son; story; temple; thought; time; voice; water; way; white", "summary": "As if drawn by some uncontrollable impulse, Joel started to meet Him, an unspoken prayer in his pleading little face. Poor little Joel, it was a hard doctrine for him to accept!", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "42558", "words": "47971", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "71", "author": "Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon)", "title": "The Art of Illustration", "date": null, "keywords": "anecdotes; book; brethren; christ; christian; day; earth; god; good; gospel; house; illustrations; jesus; life; light; look; lord; man; men; miles; mind; people; place; planet; preacher; preaching; sermon; set; story; sun; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; work; world; years", "summary": "It is a dangerous weapon, it will be said, and many men will cut their fingers with it. This world impresses many men with far greater force than the world to come has ever done, because they look only upon the things that are seen and temporal.", "mime": "text/plain"}, {"id": "54246", "words": "72617", "extension": ".txt", "flesch": "75", "author": "Mullois, Isidore", "title": "The Clergy and the Pulpit in Their Relations to the People.", "date": null, "keywords": "audience; charity; christian; church; classes; country; day; divine; faith; footnote; france; french; god; good; gospel; great; hand; heart; knowledge; life; love; man; men; mind; order; people; place; power; preacher; present; priest; pulpit; religion; saint; self; sermon; souls; speak; speech; study; subject; thing; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world", "summary": "Such men accuse others, and yet never seem to reflect that despair is the greatest possible crime in the sight of God. Let us be on our guard against taking such men at their word, for we should thereby show how little knowledge we possess of the human heart.", "mime": "text/plain"}]