Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREACH TO THEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Preacher, facing needy souls
Last Line: Are the ones preached -- to them.
Subject(s): Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


Preacher, facing needy souls,
Do not dare ignore them,
While God's fateful thunder rolls,
And you preach -- before them;
Rather, finding out their need,
Piercing through and through them,
Though they shrink and though they bleed,
Preach your sermons -- to them.

It is easy to parade,
Fling your knowledge o'er them,
Preaching sermons study-made
Pompously -- before them;
But the sermons that will bless
Through and through and through them,
From your heart to theirs, -- no less, --
Are the ones preached -- to them.





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