Emphasis Preaching Journal

Fred Speakman, great preacher of another era, tells this story. Wheeler Robinson, great New Testament scholar, slipped into the back of a Paris Cathedral one day as the choir was practicing. They were singing the 23rd portion of the mass: "Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis!" "Lamb of God that takest away the sin of the world, have mercy upon us!" Dr. Robinson said he noticed a man standing beside him visibly distraught. And as the choir sang, the troubled man began to whisper out loud, "O, God! O God, what a dream! If only he could!