To
My beloved pastor
C. E. MATTHEWS
A source of constant challenge and inspiration
Pastor, Travis Avenue Baptist Church
Fort Worth, Texas
PREFACE
These sermons were preached, not written, not edited, but preached in burning anxiety, in pleading earnestness, in yearning appeal for the salvation and consecration of souls. They were born of sleepless nights and agony-filled days. They lay claim to no originality either in thought, outline or contents.
Reader, judge them not as oratorical, rhetorical, grammatical compositions. They are the blood, the sweat, the tears, the hope, the faith of this humble preacher. God has been pleased to use them in the Holy Spirit. They are, every one of them, sent out humbly, by request. If the reading of them will stir one life for Christ, the evangelist will be more than repaid.
May the Holy Spirit of God use them for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the discomfiting of Satan, for the salvation of souls.
Hyman J. Appelman
Fort Worth, Texas