A preacher looking for an illustration usually reaches for something recent, and the result is a sermon dated within five years. This volume offers a different supply: over four hundred choice illustrations drawn from church history, arranged as a ready reference for preaching and teaching.

This is a priceless treasury of illustrative vignettes culled from church history, runs one commendation; the anecdotes themselves make profitable, edifying reading, and as sermon illustrations they are provocative and effective. Their greatest benefit is that they promote a deeper interest in the history itself, in the preacher and in those who hear him.