Though we could preach like angels...

For what avails public preaching alone, though we could preach like angels?

I heard Dr. Lupton say, my father, visiting one of his parishioners, who had never missed going to Church for forty years, then lying on his death-bed, asked him: 'Thomas, where do you think your soul will go?' 'Soul! Soul!' said Thomas. 'Yes, do you not know what your soul is?' 'Aye, surely,' said he, 'Why it is a little bone in the back, that lives longer than the rest of the body.' So much Thomas had learned by constantly hearing sermons, yea, and exceedingly good sermons, for forty years!

Minutes of Conversation, The Rev. John Wesley, 1744