title: Sermons in a Pinch: Prepared Sermons for the Unprepared Pastor
author: B. C. Robinson
description: Brian C. Robinson is an ordained minister with a Bachelors from Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, FL and a masters from Southern California Seminary in El Cajon, CA. He is a native of the State of West Virginia and is the founding pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church in the States quaint town of Chester. After pastoring the church for twelve years, Brian is now writing material to encourage and to equip people to live the Christian life. Brian, his wife, and two children reside in northern WV.
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  # The Last Gift
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  
  
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  ROBINSON CARNES pilgrimmed along the country road between Sanderson and
  Elmville. He wore a shabby clerical suit, and he carried a rusty black bag
  which might have contained sermons. It did actually hold one sermon, a
  favorite which he had delivered many times in many pulpits, and in which he
  felt a certain covert pride of authorship.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The bag contained, besides the sermon, two old shirts with frayed cuffs, three
  collars, one pocket-handkerchief, a Bible, and a few ancient toilet articles.
  These were all his worldly goods, except the clothes he wore, and a matter of
  forty-odd cents in his old wallet. Robinson Carnes subsisted after a curious
  parasitical fashion. He travelled about the country with his rusty black bag,
  journeying from place to place — no matter what place, so long as it held an