Digital Logos Edition
It was Samuel Chadwick's custom on a Monday morning to write out one of his Sunday Sermons. This was used for leaflet distribution by his workers at the Leeds Wesleyan Mission. On the outer cover of each leaflet was a picture of the famous Oxford Place Chapel. These sermons have never been published and now, out of three hundred, here are a small selection in the hope that a generation too young to know 'Chadwick of Leeds' may yet benefit by his challenging ministry.
These are not 'sermonettes', on the other hand, they do not represent his preaching in all its fullness. They do, however, gather up the essential keynotes of his message. The limitation of space only adds to the intensity of style. In sharp sentences he ministers the truth. Something of the pungency and the power of his evangelical ministry can be felt as one reads. More than 50 years later these messages have not been robbed of their aptness or their effectiveness.