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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill SELF-DISCOVERY AVAST mist of confusion hangs around what la usually spoken of as a ministerial call. There are some who make it an absolutely spiritual affair a thing which God does directly and authoritatively. Others, differing from this view, see nothing in the conviction whih puts a man into the ministry except what can be accounted for with the divine element left out. This is one more case in which the truth lies about midway between the extremes. It would rob the ministry of much of its dignity and about all of its authority to eliminate from it the voice of God. They who preach from preference or other supposed adaptation or for more human reasons can never speak with highest authority. . They are likely enough in the long run to be played upon by other personal influences which may lift them out of the ministry and send them into pursuit of things more clearly in sight and more convincingly tangible. On the other hand, there are those who are led to believe that the ministerial call is the living voice of God, that it must come with an overmastering voice or as an entrancing vision, looking in vain for what they think they must have or else stubbornly refusing the ministry. I heard the matter of a ministerial call set forth in a most dogmatic way and for several years I listened day and night to hear the peremptory and overwhelming summons from heaven to preach the Gospel. Of course I listened in vain. Many influences, however, were continually playingupon me. There were ministers who came into touch with me who gave me stirring impressions as to the preacher's life. They had a clean, manly, courtly bearing; their excellencies, their dignity, called forth my reverence and affection and their earnestness and eloquence moved me most powerfully. They had a no...
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