This is Grammar!

"THIS IS GRAMMAR"!
A Powerful Excerpt From "The Origin & History of
Primitive Methodism," by Holliday Bickerstaff Kendall

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Introduction:

       Read this, and understand what it takes to be a successful Preacher of The Gospel. -- DVM

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       Hugh Bourne walked thirty-four miles through the rain to Wyrley Bank, arriving there on July 27th, 1810. It was during this evangelistic tour that Bourne met with John Benton, who was afterwards for several years a successful pioneer missionary.

       Bourne calls him "an extraordinary man," and he was such if for no other reason than that his sincere piety and zeal were able to triumph over all the disadvantages of illiteracy and natural defects. He had "little grammar and not much command of language," and hence he did not escape reproach and scoffs from both professors and profane.

       Said a local preacher to him one day after hearing him try to preach at Cannock Common:—"You are bringing a scandal on the cause of Christ, you have had no learning, you do not understand grammar."

       Benton's most effective answer was given some time after. He was preaching on a Good Friday afternoon from the text, "It is finished." The room was crowded with colliers, and he had got but half-way through his discourse when a large part of the congregation became strangely affected:—

       "Some groaned, others shrieked; some fell from their seats; and the whole assembly was thrown into consternation. He therefore closed the Bible, and went from his stand to pray for mourners; and when passing down among the people he saw his friend, the local preacher, standing and looking on with amazement. Said Benton to him, 'This is grammar!'"

       THIS IS ALSO FIRST CORINTHIANS 1:27-29

       27 "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

       28 "And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

        29 "That no flesh should glory in his presence."