Chapter 2

_THE SECRET WALK WITH GOD_ (ii.).

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 for effort and enterprize--Secularizing theories of religion and the Ministry--A call to young English Clergymen--A caution from Laodicea--Study of the Holy Scriptures--"The New Testament about twice a week"--What says the Ordinal?--M. Henri Lasserre on Devotional Literature and the Gospels--Study the Bible unprofessionally--Bridges' quotation from Witsius--Ridley in the Orchard 21