Drawn Out to Apply

“Hence, inferences should be entirely free from a theoretic aspect, and from abstract elements. Neither is it enough, that they be practical in the moderate sense of the word. They should be intensely practical. By this is meant, that their address and appeal should be solely and entirely, to the most moral, earnest, and living part of man’s nature, — that is, his affections and will” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 202).