ABSTRACT
A preacher should bare his breast and give the simple folk milk, for every day a new need of first principles arises. He should be diligent with the catechism and serve out only milk leaving the strong wine of high thoughts for private discussion with the wise. I n my sermons I do not think of Bugenhagen, Jonas, and Melanchthon, for they know as much as I do, so I preach not to them but to my little Hans and Lena and Elsa.1 I t would be a foolish gardener who would attend to one flower to the neglect of the great majority.
