The Sage Advice of Dean Brown of Yale

Dr. Browns’ advices from the book form under that name by the Macmillan Company, New York:

Brood over your text and your topic. Brood over them until they become mellow and responsive. You will hatch out of them a whole flock of promIsing ideas as you cause the tiny germs of life there contained to expand and develop.

When you are actually engaged in assembling the material for a particular sermon, write down everything that comes to you bearing upon that text and topic.

Put all these ideas of yours down in writing, just a few words, enough to fix the idea, and keep your mind reaching for more all the time as if it were never to see another book as long as it lived.

Put down all of those ideas which you have brought to the birth yourself, unaided.

Keep on putting down all the ideas which come to your mind, thinking hard all the while. You need not hurry this process. Itis one of the most important mental transactions in which you will be privileged to engage. It is this method which causes the mind to grow in real productive power.

It is one of the best advices which I ever read. I keep it in mind and try to use this advices in my real life, another words, try to think more about my ideas and to put it down in some copybook and improve over the time.