---
title: 'Shutting the Closet Door'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, Sr.'
date: 1898-06-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Preaching'
- 'Church History'
- 'Personal Piety'
scriptures:
- 'Deuteronomy 6'
- 'Matthew 22'
- 'Acts 15'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/witherspoon-1898-shutting-the-closet-door
---

# Shutting the Closet Door

Essays on homiletics: using church history as sermon illustration to promote tolerance; counsel on private devotion (keep the closet door shut); and using biography as pulpit analogy.

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