To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work

Already I have broken ground to some extent in the all-important subject of private Bible Study. Let me now put before my reader and Brother a few more detailed remarks and sugg...

_Eternal Fulness, overflow to me Till I, Thy vessel, overflow for Thee; For sure the streams that make Thy garden grow Are never fed but by an overflow: Not till Thy prophets wi...

_Work on in hope; the plough, the sickle wield; Thy Master is the harvest's Master too; He gives the golden seed, He owns the field, And does Himself what His true servants do._

_Master, to the flock I speed, In Thy presence, in Thy name; Show me how to guide, to feed, How aright to cheer and blame; With me knock at every door; Enter with me, I implore._

I resume the rich subject of Secret Devotion, Secret Communion with God. Not that I wish to enter in detail on either the theory or the practice of prayer in secret; as I have a...

_Earthen vessels, frail and slight, Yet the golden Lamp we bear; Master, break us, that the light So may fire the murky air; Skill and wisdom none we claim, Only seek to lift Th...

_Thrice happy they who at Thy side, Thou Child of Nazareth, Have learnt to give their struggling pride Into Thy hands to death: If thus indeed we lay us low, Thou wilt exalt us...

_For Thy sake, beloved Lord, I will labour in Thy Word; On the knees, in patient prayer; At the desk, with studious care; In the pulpit, seeking still There to utter all Thy will._

_When the watcher in the dark Turns his lenses to the skies, Suddenly the starry spark Grows a world upon his eyes: Be my life a lens, that I So my Lord may magnify_

_Pastor, for the round of toil See the toiling soul is fed; Shut the chamber, light the oil, Break and eat the Spirit's bread; Life to others would'st thou bring? Live thyself u...

In the present chapter I deal a little with the spirit and work of the Clergyman in his ministration of the ordered Services of the Church, reserving the work of the Pulpit for...

cry, Take heed unto thyself. That matter is _Money_. A few words here will sufficiently convey my appeal, but those few must be pressing. I appeal to my younger Brethren to be w...

house, or is thrown into new intercourse at some health-resort. And we will suppose that he is a bachelor, and not engaged. In what particular directions shall he take heed?

name that his own use of the Prayer Book in his ministration be to him a thing of sacred importance and personal reality. We _need_ to form such a resolve deliberately, and to w...

Marriage, Burial, I would earnestly counsel my Brother to put personality into his reading in them all, in the moderate sense indicated above. The fact that such occasions are n...

ritual of the Table of the Lord. I am not attempting here any discussion of its doctrinal aspects in detail. For myself, as I have said elsewhere, I make no secret of long-settl...

It would be waste of words to talk about the delicacy of the subject; it is self-evident. And it is obvious also that in a book like this the subject can be treated only in the...

In the present chapter I follow the general principles of the last into some further details. And I place before me as a sort of motto those twice-repeated words of the Apostle,...

Notes from a Sermon-Lecture--On diction, arrangement, fidelity to the text, proportion of parts, accuracy--On statements about revelation, justification, faith, grace--A paper i...

Secret intercourse with God the life of a Minister's life--The Example of Jesus Christ--Testimony of von Machtholf--Special need of divine communion at the present day--The cry...

"As bad as inspired"--Imperfections in the Book--Yet it is priceless--Spirituality of the Prayer Book--What it takes for granted in the worshipper--A remarkable reason for seces...

Further remarks on Attractiveness--And, in passing, on Ministerial Considerateness--This is to be practised in preaching--As well as in other functions--Attractiveness to be gua...

A fragmentary chapter--Higher Criticism--A technical and innocent term--Actual assertions of certain critics--"Do not follow this Book; follow Christ"--Weigh facts before theori...

Secret Communion with God must _accompany_ everything else--We are watched--Self-respect--Consistency largely means Considerateness--"A consistent gentleman"--The Tongue--St Aug...

The Pulpit a central point in the Ministry--Mutual influence of "parish-work" and preaching--"Truth through personality"--Let us "labour in the Word"--"Litho Sermons"--Addison's...

A boundless subject--Visiting--All-important--Prepare for the round with prayer--Method--Brevity but not hurry--An example--Courtesy--It must be impartial--Visitation of the sic...

Need of watching and prayer over three departments of a Minister's life--The secret department--Temptations in it from work--From solitude--Secret Devotion--The Morning Watch--P...

Teach as you go--Urgent need of teaching--About Christ--And the Holy Spirit--And Sacraments--Common mistakes about the teaching of the Church--Sin--Evidences--Recollections of a...

Curate and Incumbent--A Chancellor on Curates--The ideal Incumbent--No Incumbent perfect--And no parish perfectly content--Loyal watchfulness needed accordingly--The Curate's Pa...

"Take heed unto thyself"--Relations with Woman--Christian chivalry--And Christian caution--Special difficulties--"Know thyself"--Celibacy--The Clergyman's Wife--The problem of m...