Illustration in the Right Amount

“A building without windows would be ‘a prison rather than a house . . . we dare say they [children] often wish that the sermon were all illustration even as the boy desired to have a cake made all of plums.’ But, of course, a cake cannot be all plums, any more than a house can be all windows. We need to find the happy medium between this and the entire absence of windows and plums” (Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 240).