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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: Ministerial Teaching. 67 LECTURE III. THE PREACHER PERSONALLY. (r I AKE heed unto thyself, was the injunction - of St. Paul to his beloved disciple, Timothy. If he needed such admonition, educated, trained, and in the active ministry, so do we. The work rises before us in grandeur; the voice of God calls us; but much depends on our devotion to the work. The minister is unlike other teachers. They simply teach art or science, without reference to moral character. The printer may be an excellent mechanic, may teach his art thoroughly, and yet be a very bad man. The college professor may teach clearly the highest problems in calculus, and yet may be grossly immoral. But the minister is blended with the truth which he teaches. He may explain the doctrines of the Bible intellectually, but he cannot preach properly without a personal realization of the truth. I congratulate you, young gentlemen, on your devotion to this high and holy calling. I have spoken strongly and solemnly of the responsibility of the office, and of the divine call, that you might rest on secure foundations. Having done that, I rejoice that God has counted you worthy, putting you into the ministry. Your work associates you with the purest and best minds of earth; with the men who have done, and are now doing, the greatest work in the purification and elevation of society. For your greatest usefulness in it you need decision of character. You should feel that the whole course of your life is settled; that you have been taken out of the mass of men for one special duty. All your powers of body and spirit, your head, hands, and heart, should be consecrated to this one work. Your language should be, This one thing I do. Where there is singleness of purpose there is usually great success. If thine...
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