Excerpt from Nineteenth Century Preachers and Their MethodsMost preachers are made, not born; that is, they only attain success by honest work, careful and pro tracted study, and by communion with God. The best stairway to the pulpit is the Ladder of St. Augustine.The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.