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During [[World War I]], [[U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] dispatched Truett and nineteen other pastors to preach for six months to the Allied forces fighting the Central Powers.<ref name=papers/> Before Wilson's assignment, Truett had preached during the war at the noon hour at the Palace Theater in downtown Dallas for the convenience of workers, many of whom attended his sermons regardless of denomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/truett-george-washington|title=Truett, George Washington|publisher=Ncpedia.org|date=1996|author=Henry S. Strope|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref> For thirty-seven years, Truett preached for a month each summer to cowboys working the [[cattle]] drives in the Davis Mountains of West Texas.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftr16|title=Truett, George Washington|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas'' online|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref>

During [[World War I]], [[U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] dispatched Truett and nineteen other pastors to preach for six months to the Allied forces fighting the Central Powers.<ref name=papers/> Before Wilson's assignment, Truett had preached during the war at the noon hour at the Palace Theater in downtown Dallas for the convenience of workers, many of whom attended his sermons regardless of denomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/truett-george-washington|title=Truett, George Washington|publisher=Ncpedia.org|date=1996|author=Henry S. Strope|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref> For thirty-seven years, Truett preached for a month each summer to cowboys working the [[cattle]] drives in the Davis Mountains of West Texas.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftr16|title=Truett, George Washington|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas'' online|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref>

On May 16, 1920, Truett delivered a sermon which received nation attention, "Baptists and Religious Liberty". He spoke on the [[U.S. Capitol]] steps in [[Washington, D.C.]], where presidents have been inaugurated and foreign dignitaries feted.  He explained how the nation was established on the principles of religious freedom and separation of church and state. Some referred to the address as advancing "Baptist democracy."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uCbL2_ZDU60C&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=george+truett+southern+baptist+preacher+significant#v=onepage&q=george%20truett%20southern%20baptist%20preacher%20significant&f=false|title=A Baptist Democracy: Separating God and Caesar in the Land of the Free|author=Lee Canipe|date=2011|publisher=Mercer University Press|location=Macon, [[Georgia]]|page=127-128|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref> Presumably had Truett lived into the 1960s, he would have been shocked that the [[United States Supreme Court]] adopted [[liberal]] ideology to strike down [[prayer]] and Bible reading in public schools on the basis of "separation of church and state," for which Truett had argued in 1920.

On May 16, 1920, Truett delivered a sermon which received national attention, "Baptists and Religious Liberty". He spoke on the [[U.S. Capitol]] steps in [[Washington, D.C.]], where presidents have been inaugurated and foreign dignitaries feted.  He explained how the nation was established on the principles of religious freedom and separation of church and state. Some referred to the address as advancing "Baptist democracy."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uCbL2_ZDU60C&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=george+truett+southern+baptist+preacher+significant#v=onepage&q=george%20truett%20southern%20baptist%20preacher%20significant&f=false|title=A Baptist Democracy: Separating God and Caesar in the Land of the Free|author=Lee Canipe|date=2011|publisher=Mercer University Press|location=Macon, [[Georgia]]|page=127-128|accessdate=March 20, 2018}}</ref> Presumably had Truett lived into the 1960s, he would have been shocked that the [[United States Supreme Court]] adopted [[liberal]] ideology to strike down [[prayer]] and Bible reading in public schools on the basis of "separation of church and state," for which Truett had argued in 1920.

Truett published ten volumes of sermons, two volumes of addresses, and two volumes of [[Christmas]] messages. Sixty-one of his sermons have been published in three volumes: ''We Would See Jesus'' (1915), ''A Quest for Souls'' (1917), and ''God's Call to America'' (1923). The three volumes have been consolidated into a single work, ''Follow Thou Me'' (1932). Truett considered the ministry the best way to "help human life to realize its true destiny". He believed that no earthly task was greater than that of the minister.<ref name=handbook/>

Truett published ten volumes of sermons, two volumes of addresses, and two volumes of [[Christmas]] messages. Sixty-one of his sermons have been published in three volumes: ''We Would See Jesus'' (1915), ''A Quest for Souls'' (1917), and ''God's Call to America'' (1923). The three volumes have been consolidated into a single work, ''Follow Thou Me'' (1932). Truett considered the ministry the best way to "help human life to realize its true destiny". He believed that no earthly task was greater than that of the minister.<ref name=handbook/>