To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work

Chapter 8

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_PASTOR IN PARISH_ (ii.).

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 visiting round--The retired tradesman--The sceptical blacksmith--The invalid artizan--The civil-servant--The consumptive--The dying printer--The cripple--Aged poor saints--Saddening visits--Humbling memories--A bright conversion at eighty-two 173