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title: 'Dabney on the Mission of the Preacher'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-07-25
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-dabney-on-the-mission-of-the-preacher
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# Dabney on the Mission of the Preacher

“The preacher’s business is to take what is given him in the Scriptures, as it is given to him, and to endeavour to imprint it on the souls of men. All else is God’s work.” — [**Robert L. Dabney**](/authors/robert-lewis-dabney), *Sacred Rhetoric* (1870), p. 37