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ADDRESSES 
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ADDRESSES 
 TO YOUNG CLERGYMEN. 
 
 dp:livered at Salisbury, 
 Sept. 29 and 30, Oct. i and 2, 1875. 
 
 BY 
 
 C. J. VAUGHAN, D.D. 
 
 MASTER OF THE TEMPLE, 
 AND CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN. 
 
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 MY YOUNG BROTHERS IN THE MINISTRY 
 
 WHO HAVE SOUGHT MY HELP 
 AT DONCASTER OR THE TEMPLE 
 IN PREPARING FOR THEIR FIRST ORDINATION, 
 
 THIS RECORD 
 
 OF A DELIGHTFUL MEETING WITH SOME OF THEM 
 
 IS DEDICATED 
 
 IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 I FEEL that a word of explanation, and even of 
 apology, ought to preface this publication. 
 
 In a Sermon preached at Cambridge on Trinity- 
 Sunday, 1861, after a strong expression of the 
 opinion that the science of Theology, its doctrine, 
 literature, and history, ought to be studied at the 
 University, the following passage occurred : — 
 
 " But has not Theology its art as well as its 
 science ? Does it come naturally to any man, 
 when once he is master of Scriptural doctrine, to 
 manage a Parochial School, to organize Parochial 
 visiting, to catechize the young, to visit the sick, or 
 to prepare and to preach Sermons ? It may be 
 so with some few men. There may be those who 
 are gifted with these great aptitudes, and whom 
 special training in these matters would rather 
 cramp than aid. But surely this is not a common, 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 certainly it is not the normal, condition of a 
 Candidate for Holy Orders. Certainly it is not 
 the course pursued by a student of law, or 
 tolerated in a student of medicine. To expect 
 it in this one instance is to expect a miracle. 
 To act upon this expectation is to hand over one 
 Parish after another to be experimented upon by 
 an untaught empiric, and to prevent one Clergyman 
 after another from ever rising out of the awkward- 
 nesses of a perpetual beginner, or (at best) the 
 eccentricities and mannerisms of a self-instructed 
 genius. Surely these are powers best and most 
 safely acquired in the observation of their exercise. 
 And where is the experienced Pastor who would 
 not gladly take under his general direction, from 
 time to time, three or four Candidates for Holy 
 Orders ? Great joy would it carry to the heart 
 of one Parochial Clergyman — for him I can answer 
 — to receive applications of such a nature ; to find 
 that there were men of blameless character, of 
 steady purpose, of open mind and of true devotion, 
 who were willing to take up their abode in his 
 Parish, before Ordination, to see what he could 
 
PREFACE. 
 
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 show them, and to render to him such services, in 
 his Schools and amongst his poor, as Church order 
 might permit and mutual convenience arrange. 
 Then, and not till then, would he feel that his 
 Parish was efficiently worked, and he would cherish 
 the hope that what was thus given to him would 
 be repaid in some measure by opportunities of 
 widening experience, and growing in the knowledge 
 alike of man and of God." 
 
 The first fruit of this appeal was reaped the 
 same evening ; and for the last fourteen years 
 a large part of the time which could be spared 
 from other duties has been devoted to the work- 
 sketched in the words above quoted. More than 
 two hundred Clergymen, graduates of Oxford and 
 Cambridge, now sprinkled over all parts of Eng- 
 land, have received, at Doncaster and in the 
 Temple, the kind of training here indicated for 
 their ministerial duties. To the active Parochial 
 work which is made prominent in the passage 
 quoted,* has been added a careful study of the 
 
 * In London, where I have (strictly speaking) no Parish, the 
 kindness of others has enabled me to find practical work for my 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 Greek Testament, especially of the Epistles ; prac- 
 tice in the reading of the Lessons, the composition 
 of Sermons, and the definite statement of Christian 
 doctrines ; advice, in the form of conversational 
 Lectures, upon some of the special duties of the 
 Ministry ; a general direction of private reading 
 with a view to the examination for Orders ; and 
 that sort of individual assistance in the selection of 
 a Diocese and a Curacy which is perhaps not with- 
 out its influence upon the comfort and efficiency of 
 the subsequent Clerical life. No one can be so 
 conscious as myself of the many deficiencies of the 
 plan pursued : still I believe that it is an effort in the 
 right direction, and I should be most unthankful if 
 I did not earnestly acknowledge the reaction of 
 happiness which it is sure to bring with it to the 
 person who honestly and diligently seeks to carry 
 it out. 
 
 Through the kindness of my former Pupils I 
 have been able to arrange a meeting, the last two 
 
 Students in two or three Parishes in the neighbourhood of the 
 Temple, in which former Pupils of mine are now serving as 
 Curates. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
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 years, for a portion of their number, with a view to 
 reviving or strengthening the impressions of their 
 preparation under my charge for the Ministry. Last 
 year those of them who were then serving in the 
 Diocese of York met me, by the invitation of Mr. 
 Glyn, at Beverley — now (I rejoice to say) Vicar of 
 Doncaster : and this year a still larger body, drawn 
 chiefly from the Southern Dioceses, spent three 
 days of great interest and refreshment in a meeting 
 of the same kind at Salisbury. This little Volume, 
 printed at their desire, is designed to keep the record 
 of the latter gathering. 
 
 The Bishop of Salisbury most kindly gave 
 us the privilege of holding our morning and 
 evening Services in the private Chapel of his 
 Palace. Our mid-day meetings were held under 
 the roof of his Chaplain, Mr. Yeatman, who is one 
 of us, and to whom we were indebted for all the 
 arrangements which rendered our stay at Salisbury 
 so full of comfort and enjoyment. 
 
 I have preserved the exact order of the several 
 Addresses, whether given in the Chapel or at our 
 other meetings. Those which were delivered at 
 
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 the early Communion will be found extremely- 
 short and bare : but their interest, such as it may 
 be, depends, I think, upon their being left un- 
 altered. A still larger allowance must be asked for 
 the two sketches of our readings in the Greek 
 Testament, which have been put together from the 
 notes taken at the time by some of my hearers. 
 They will accept my sincere thanks for that 
 kindness which alone made it possible to preserve 
 any fragments of one of the most characteristic 
 features of our gathering. 
 
 The Temple, 
 
 November 23, 1875. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 I. 
 
 MINISTERIAL SYMPATHY. 
 St. John xxi. 3. 
 
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 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto 
 
 him, We also go with thee . . . .1 
 
 II. 
 
 MINISTERIAL DISCOURAGEMENTS. 
 St. John xxi. 3. 
 And that night they caught nothing . . .18 
 
 III. 
 
 NOTES OF GREEK TESTAMENT READING. 
 
 2 Timothy ii. i — 13 . . 24 
 
 IV. 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY . 32 
 V. 
 
 MINISTERIAL ENCOURAGEMENTS. 
 St. John xxi. 6. 
 Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find . 62 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 VI. 
 
 MINISTERIAL RECREATIONS. 
 St. John xxi. 12. 
 
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 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine . . .74 
 
 VII. 
 
 NOTES OF GREEK TESTAMENT READING. 
 
 2 Timothy ii. 14 — 26 . . .82 
 
 VIII. 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS PARISH . 92 
 IX. 
 
 THE PASTORAL OFFICE. 
 Isaiah xl. ii. 
 
 He shall feed His flock like a shepherd . . .118 
 
 X. 
 
 CHRIST'S DISMISSALS. 
 Mark vin. 9. 
 
 And He sent them away ..... 140 
 
I. 
 
 ministerial sympathy. 
 
 St. John xxi. 3. 
 
 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They 
 say unto him, We also go with thee. 
 
 The one thought which this text suggests is that 
 of Companionship in a Work. And it is the thought* 
 which I would have present to all our minds, to- 
 night, and in the days which follow. 
 
 We will first see it in its bearing upon these 
 disciples. 
 
 They were at a very important point in their 
 spiritual history. They were just beginning to 
 believe in the Resurrection. They were just 
 beginning to apprehend the idea of living on in 
 the body, without their Master, and yet not cut 
 
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 off from His sympathy and from His love. They 
 were being educated into the conception of a 
 spiritual Presence. Like all His dealing with 
 them, this also was marked by a consideration 
 as tender as it was wise. He did not precipitate 
 the lesson He would teach. As they were able to 
 Jiear it was still the rule and measure of His 
 instruction. He did not ascend the moment He 
 rose. He interposed an interval of forty days — 
 during which, though no longer living with them 
 as aforetime, He was from time to time manifest- 
 ing Himself, at once in the identity of His Person, 
 and in the novelty of His life. Thus He would 
 prepare them for that which was to be the rule 
 of the Gospel Dispensation — a bodily absence and 
 a spiritual presence. 
 
 On one of these forty days seven of the disciples 
 were together at the sea of Tiberias. The names 
 of five are recorded. There is Simon Peter — with 
 the grand confession first, and then the " base 
 denial," behind him — the future not yet finally 
 cleared by the express commission, Feed my 
 sheep. There is Thomas, once faithless, now 
 
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 believing. There is Nathanael, the Israelite 
 without guile — whose presence gives some proba- 
 bility to the tradition which identifies him with 
 Bartholomew, one of the twelve. There are the 
 two sons of Zebedee — James, the first martyr- 
 Apostle ; John, the link between two ages of the 
 Church, and the perpetual witness of the words 
 which are spirit and life. These — and two besides, 
 upon whose names it is idle to speculate. 
 
 Released now from that attendance upon the 
 footsteps of Jesus which for three years had been 
 their life, they seem to have returned to their old 
 occupation, of fishermen upon this lake; and on 
 this particular day Simon Peter, foremost as ever 
 in speech and action, proposes to go a fishing, and 
 they all resolve to accompany him. 
 
 The Church has ever read this Chapter as 
 parable no less than history : — we will do so now. 
 
 All we who are here present this evening are 
 not only believers in Christ, as to His Divinity 
 His Incarnation, His Atonement, His Risen Life — 
 we are also all of us His Ministers. He has 
 
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 Himself consecrated the figure of the text to the 
 work of the Ministry. Follow me, and I will 
 make you to become fisliers of meti. Therefore 
 we read the words before us as typifying our own 
 special life's work. We are engaged in that 
 " fishing," which is no sport and no pastime, but 
 the most serious and severe toil which can task 
 the energies of body and soul and spirit in each man 
 who intelligently and devoutly takes it in hand. 
 In this arduous enterprise we are companions : — 
 and I shall just try to set before you the two things 
 — the enterprise, and the companionship. A very 
 few words will suffice. 
 
 (i) Notice, then, that the object set before us as 
 Christ's Ministers is nothing less than the capture of 
 living men for Him. What we want is, to bring 
 to Christ, to God through Christ, not a part of the 
 man, but the » whole man. Some men speak of 
 the salvation of souls as the Gospel work. Rightly 
 interpreted, this is equivalent to the other. When 
 the " soul " is read as the " life," the " I myself," the 
 person, the being, — the will and affections, con- 
 science and reason, intellect and energies, all in one 
 
MINISTERIAL SYMPATHY. 
 
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 — and when "salvation" means the bringing back of 
 the whole man, from his fall and from his ruin and 
 from his dispersion, into that state of balance and 
 equipoise of all the parts of him, which is health, 
 moral and spiritual and eternal— then the salvation 
 of the soul is synonymous and coextensive with that 
 catching of the man in the net of the kingdom 
 which is Christ's own figure ; with that presenting 
 perfect in Christ Jesus, which is St. Paul's account 
 of the aim of his labour in fulfilling the word of 
 God. 
 
 Not without cause do I press upon you this 
 thought. It corrects all that merely sensational 
 and emotional idea of our work, which would make 
 one little fragment of the man, not the whole of 
 him, our aim and our quest. Just as we complain 
 of the sceptic, who insists upon our demonstrating 
 to the intellect by itself the truth of our Gospel, 
 when we claim to take the whole of us, the whole 
 and each part, intellect and conscience and soul, into 
 the investigation of that which professes to be the 
 voice of the Creator to the whole thing created ; 
 just as we urge upon the infidel, that the argument 
 
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 MINISTERIAL SYMPATHY. 
 
 which we offer is cumulative, made up of a thou- 
 sand considerations, moral as well as intellectual, 
 appealing to all the elements, not to one element, 
 of our complex nature — and that it is rational 
 thus to collect the whole man to decide whether 
 indeed his own God is speaking to him ; — even so, 
 in reference to some (so called) Evangelists, we feel 
 that the unity of the being is lost sight of in their 
 representations ; that they think all is done when 
 one vibration has been caused in one small string of 
 the instrument — when a single cry of anguish has 
 been wrung from the conscience, or a single expres- 
 sion of confidence has been elicited from the heart — 
 whereas in reality what we are set to do is to bring 
 the whole life and the whole being into captivity 
 to the love of Christ, and to count nothing done till 
 the man himself, rescued and sanctified, is drawn 
 safely out of the waters of this sinful and trouble- 
 some world, and laid upon that table of the Lord 
 which is spread by His own mysterious Hand for 
 the everlasting banquet in Heaven. 
 
 The effect of this thought will be to give great 
 quietness, and great steadiness, and great thorough- 
 
MINISTERIAL SYMPATHY. 
 
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 ness, and great patience, to our ministry. We 
 shall prefer, in all things, the steady, the orderly, 
 the gradual, the progressive, to the showy, the 
 sudden, the loud, and the startling. We shall look 
 more to the end than to the beginning. We shall 
 think what will wear well, and last long, and 
 endure trial. We shall pay immense attention to 
 all that educates, and view with considerable 
 suspicion all that excites. The formation of 
 character, the communication of instruction, in 
 our Schools ; the careful building up, the perpetual 
 fostering, of the spiritual life, in our Churches ; the 
 daily going before in all good works, and in all 
 holy living, in our streets and in our homes ; — we 
 shall never consent to put these things second 
 to more exceptional and outlying experiments, 
 whether of Mission, or Prayer Meeting, or Midnight 
 Service. We shall feel that, whatever else we try, 
 the daily regular Ministration, publicly and from 
 lionse to house, must be the sinew and muscle 
 and backbone of our work. We are gone forth 
 to catch men — and little fragments and relics of 
 men, whether of their souls or of their lives, must 
 
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 never be treated or regarded as the whole of 
 them. 
 
 These ought ye to have done, and not to leave 
 the other undone. We can deeply sympathize 
 with men who say, " My people are asleep 
 in their sins ; my people are drowsily, languidly 
 listening, Sunday by Sunday, to unrealized truths, 
 and to what might almost deserve the insolent 
 epithet of a ' fairy-tale ' Gospel : I must, I must 
 at all hazards, try to awaken them. The question 
 lies not, for me, between a part of the man and 
 the whole man, but between a part of the man and 
 none of him. This death must be quickened into 
 any sort of life. Not because I count this or that 
 experiment perfect, but because I count it better 
 than nothing — therefore I will try it. Till some 
 part of the man is touched, no part can live — I 
 will try this, I will try that, I will try anything." 
 
 Well then, do this — but do not boast of it, do 
 not idolize it, do not exaggerate it, do not trust in 
 it — and leave not undone that. 
 
 And meanwhile, brethren, set before yourselves 
 this thought — it is all for which I have time this 
 
MINISTERIAL SYMPATHY. 
 
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 evening— Christ has made me a fisher of men. I 
 am sent on this errand. I fail, I am useless, I am 
 defeated, so far as there is under my charge one 
 man not caught, not consciously and of free will 
 inside the Gospel net, not set upon preparing him- 
 self for the heavenly feast and for the everlasting 
 home. 
 
 (2) We also go with thee. Yes ; in this work, 
 this ministry, of Christ's fishermen, we are all, 
 equally, engaged. 
 
 There are great differences amongst us, in 
 ability, in attainment, in natural gifts. 
 
 Two of these disciples were unmarked, anony- 
 mous men. They were none the worse for that. 
 It is the glory of the Gospel, to have room for 
 more base than noble, and for more weak than 
 mighty. And it is no discredit to the ministry, 
 that it includes many very common men — as 
 St. Paul Would say, many nonentities, many things 
 that are not. Christ perfects His strength, not 
 in strength, but in weakness. 
 
 There are differences greater than those. One 
 or two of us may have grown up from childhood 
 
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 MINISTERIAL SYMPA THY. 
 
 in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. They 
 have never seriously fallen away from the grace of 
 their Redemption and their Baptism. Another 
 — and perhaps he represents more of us — has, in 
 nearer or more remote memory, a fall, a sin, a 
 dark passage, a season of lethargy and deadness, 
 or worse ; an entering in not by the door, which is 
 Christ, but some other way ; a doubt of the resur- 
 rection, like Thomas's ; a denial of the crucified, 
 like Peter's ; something lies (probably) behind most 
 of us, causing fear, causing remorse, causing weak- 
 ness, in this present. And yet, when one said, / 
 go a fishing, we have all answered, for the better 
 or for the worse, We also go with thee. 
 
 And our gracious Lord, however much we 
 have disregarded or dishonoured Him, looks 
 upon us all as His Ministers, and offers us, if we 
 will have it, the effectual strength of His indwelling 
 Spirit. 
 
 And we have come together here, at this time, 
 from so many different scenes and centres of work, 
 to revive an old recollection, to rivet afresh a felt 
 bond of union, and to assist one another in going 
 
MINISTERIAL SYMPATHY. 
 
 forth, stronger and wiser men, to that work and 
 that labour after which comes the long night and 
 the everlasting day. 
 
 We also go with thee. May this be the 
 heart's desire and prayer of each one of us to-night, 
 to-morrow, and the day following. And let us 
 humbly offer that prayer to Christ Himself, whose 
 comrades, whose fellow-workers, in this enterprise 
 we are. 
 
 When St. Paul, after long voyage and ship- 
 wreck, was approaching the city of his momentous 
 captivity, it is written that the brethren, hearing of 
 his approach, went to meet him as far as Appii 
 Forum and The Three Taverns: whom when Paid 
 saw, he thanked God, and took courage. Yes ; 
 even an Apostle was not insensible to the influence 
 of companionship in an enterprise. When he 
 saw those brethren, common humble men, caring 
 enough for the Master and the Master's business 
 to recognize in it a real bond of union with this 
 suffering stranger (as he then was to them) who was 
 coming amongst them as a prisoner, and perhaps 
 a victim, for Christ — he felt then that he was not 
 
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 alone, not a solitary toiler, but one of a great multi- 
 tude, a vast countless society, knit into spiritual 
 union, yea (as he himself says), into one person, 
 in virtue of an individual faith and a common 
 hope ; and for this comfort he felt the duty of 
 giving thanks to God, and he felt the revival 
 within himself of a good hope through grace, 
 making him bold to confess, and strong (if need 
 be) to die for Christ — in whom the whole family, 
 in heaven and on earth, is one. 
 
 He had said himself, at an earlier point in his 
 life, writing from Corinth, to these same men, / 
 long to see you, tliat I may impart unto you some 
 spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established ; 
 that is, that I may be comforted together with you 
 by the mutual faith both of yoti and me. That 
 desire was now accomplished — he was come to 
 them in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of 
 Christ. 
 
 May something of that fulness of blessing rest 
 upon our meeting, beloved brethren, at this time ! 
 You ask me what particularly is meant by it — to 
 what end, more especially, our endeavours and 
 
MINISTERIAL SYMPATHY. 
 
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 prayers during these days are to be directed. I 
 will answer the enquiry in all frankness. First of 
 all, I trust that the mere meeting will be salutary. 
 The mere sight of faces once familiar, the mere 
 grasp of friendly hands, the mere presence of so 
 many workers in one great field, of so many com- 
 panions in one mighty enterprise which has not time 
 only, but eternity also, for its aim — this, of itself, is 
 invigorating. If this meeting leads any of us to 
 reflect upon the work done, the ministry exercised, 
 since the time when we were engaged together in 
 preparation for it, that will be well. If any one is 
 reminded of days when his idea of the ministry was 
 higher and more sacred than he has found himself 
 able to realize in act ; if any one is led, through such 
 reflections, to humble himself before God and pray 
 for better things in the future; even this will be 
 well. Even the thought of absent ones — some busy 
 in work that cannot be interrupted, yet perhaps 
 present with us in the spirit at this hour — others 
 recruiting in distant travel energies much over- 
 strained in weeks and months past in their Master's 
 service — one, at least, very dear to many of us, 
 
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 watching at this time by the bedside of a dying 
 sister, and asking us who are here to remember 
 him specially in our prayers — this, too, is good for 
 us. Nor will it be for nothing that we take counsel 
 together, both here and in our meetings, as to the 
 causes of failure and faintness, of discouragement 
 and disappointment, in the past, and as to such 
 means of progress and improvement, whether per- 
 sonal or ministerial, as the longer or happier 
 experience of some may be able to suggest in 
 aid of the flagging hopes or bewildered steps of 
 others. 
 
 Even amongst us there may probably be 
 differences of feeling and opinion, however great 
 the preponderance of general sympathy. We have 
 sought to leave room for these — and we would 
 invite one another to the largest possible exercise 
 of charity. Some may be desirous of opportunities 
 of privacy and seclusion, as a help towards personal 
 edification — may even wish to make this meeting 
 something of what is now commonly understood by 
 the term " Retreat ; " and, if it be so, we trust that 
 the daily Morning Service in St. Edmund's Church, 
 
MXISTERIAL SYMPATHY. 
 
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 and the daily Afternoon Service in the Cathedral, 
 followed by a little season, there or elsewhere, of 
 private devotion, may furnish these with those 
 additional helps which they thirst for, without 
 interfering with that free and serious communion 
 with their friends and brother-ministers, in reference 
 to their work inward and outward, which we all, I 
 think, feel to be an advantage not lightly to be 
 esteemed, and largely opened to us by a gathering 
 like the present. 
 
 We meet together, not for silence chiefly, but 
 for communion. We can trust one another to take 
 care that our conversation be grave, not frivolous — 
 that last would indeed be unprofitable, and worse. 
 We shall talk together, I know, not as fools, but as 
 wise, redeeming the time — "buying up the oppor- 
 tunity " — that is, as men who have a purpose in life, 
 and are met here to ensue it. Let us talk of such 
 things as may help, not hinder, seriousness — 
 remembering also that some eyes must of neces- 
 sity be observers, some ears must of necessity be 
 auditors, of our demeanour and of our conversation, 
 both at the table and in our other meetings. Let 
 
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 us give no offence in anything, that the ministry be 
 not blamed. 
 
 It may be that some of you may have special 
 practical difficulties, in your work or in your life, 
 upon which you might desire sympathy or counsel. 
 Any such questions, written down and com- 
 municated beforehand, shall have due attention 
 given to them in our meetings — and, if necessary, 
 without the mention of a name — so far as time will 
 allow, and the subjects may be found suitable. 
 
 In all things charity — be this our motto. Let 
 no differences mar our brotherly concord. Rather 
 let those differences themselves show us how large 
 is the Church, how capacious is the Ministry of 
 Jesus Christ, if there be but one faith, one hope, 
 one God and Father of all. We bid you to pray, 
 with us and for us all, that it may please Him, in 
 whose hand are all hearts, to pour out His blessing 
 upon His servants, younger and older, who are 
 here assembled at His footstool — that it may 
 please Him to give wisdom to those who offer 
 counsel, docility to them that hear, a spirit of 
 grace and supplication to each and all — so that 
 
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 this may be, to all alike, a season of spiritual 
 refreshing, from which we may return, strengthened 
 and edified, to our several places of labour, being 
 all, more than ever, of one heart and one soul, 
 imited in one holy bond of truth and peace, of faith 
 and charity, and may with one mind and one mouth 
 glorify Him, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
II. 
 
 ministerial discouragements. 
 
 St. John xxi. 3. 
 
 And that night they caught nothing. 
 
 How merciful is God's Word — not least in this — 
 that it records failures as well as successes, defeats 
 as well as victories ! That night they caught 
 nothing has its counterpart in such words as 
 these, written of the Son of God Himself below : 
 He could there do no mighty work. He mar- 
 velled because of their unbelief. If thou hadst known, 
 even thou, at least in this thy day ! How often 
 would I have gathered thy children together — and 
 ye would not ! 
 
 So then, failure is no proof of a disowned or 
 Christless Ministry. There is a faith triumphant 
 
MINISTERIAL DISC OUR A GEMENTS. 
 
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 in failure, which is better than any self-gratulation 
 on visible results. 
 
 We are to bring to Christ's Table this morning 
 humble and penitent hearts. We will lay ourselves 
 low before Him in the retrospect (thus far) of our 
 work. Yes ; I shall carry all with me if I speak on 
 these words, That night they caught notliing. 
 
 What has come of these months and years spent 
 in our Parishes ? What fruit have we gathered ? 
 What number of persons do we know of, who have 
 been even impressed, even improved, even benefited 
 — how much more, changed, transformed, rescued — 
 by our preaching, or by our influence, or by our 
 example ? If the Gospel is indeed of God — if the 
 promise is true, / am with you alway — if this 
 Church of England is a real branch of the Church 
 Universal — if we ourselves are ordained Ministers of 
 Christ, carrying the everlasting Gospel which is for 
 the healing of the nations — ought we not to expect 
 results? Ought we not to feel, to bewail, to accuse 
 ourselves on account of, this constant experience, 
 Who hath believed, who hath found life in, our 
 report ? 
 
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 And while we know that from the beginning, 
 even when Paul was the preacher, it has been the 
 case that some believed the things that were 
 spoken, and some believed not, still it is a bad 
 sign when men can comfort themselves easily 
 under this disappointment — when they find it any 
 satisfaction to say, " I have done my duty, I 
 cannot control consequences," and do not rather 
 weep soul's tears over that perpetual defeat and 
 frustration of effort, knowing that a disregarded 
 Pastor is (in other words) an erring and straying, a 
 hungering and thirsting flock. 
 
 That night they catight nothing. The parable 
 of this text seems to be, Jesus was not with them. 
 When He appeared, all was changed. 
 
 May there not be something of this in our 
 failures ? We have not the hold that we ought 
 to have upon the Gospel itself — that is, upon the 
 revelation of Christ, as the Saviour of sinners, the 
 one Atonement, the Risen Life, the ever-living 
 and ever-present Friend and Helper and Com- 
 forter in the person of the Holy Spirit. It may 
 be that we have not leaned all our weight, as men 
 
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 first, then as Ministers, upon this truth, this fact, 
 this Divine personal Lord. It may be that we 
 have grown slack or faint in that search and that 
 sight of Him, without which of course we are weak, 
 of course we are nothing. It may be that we have 
 looked off a little, this week or this year, from that 
 which was once our trust and our hope. We may 
 have been caught by some of those counterfeits of 
 faith and worship which are so rife in this wilful 
 and restless age. We may have departed a little 
 from the simplicity that is in Christ — indulging 
 ourselves with speculations or with studies which 
 have shaken the stability, disturbed the balance, 
 of our spiritual life, and left us vacillating and 
 oscillating between two "views" and two opinions. 
 It may be that we have allowed some worldly or 
 selfish interest to draw us aside from the unity 
 of life and purpose, without which we must be 
 unstable in all our ways. It may be — for all 
 possibilities must be taken in — that some old 
 root of bitterness, never quite eradicated, has 
 sprung up in us and germinated anew, so that 
 our whole Ministry is being tainted and poisoned 
 
22 MIXISTERIAL DISCOURAGEMENTS. 
 
 by a half-conscious hypocrisy which " does " not 
 even while it " says." 
 
 There is no doubt that much good work is 
 spoiled — and it ought to be — by our inability to 
 say plainly, " I have heard Christ myself, and 
 know." If we could honestly say, " I was once 
 undecided and unhappy ; I was once tied and 
 bound by a sin ; but I tried upon myself this 
 Gospel which I preach to you — I determined to 
 pray as if Christ were true, and to throw myself 
 upon the Holy Spirit's help as if it were real ; and 
 I found peace, I found grace, I found strength 
 for resisting sin, and now I speak that which I 
 know, and testify that I have seen" — this sort of 
 argument would have weight : like truth herself, 
 it is mighty, and will prevail. For lack of it we go 
 forth to our work, and we come back empty — yea, 
 we toil all the night, and take nothing. 
 
 I believe that these are among the real causes 
 of our failure — and that, if our Lord should be 
 pleased to work powerfully in some of us this 
 week to feel and to grapple with them, we shall 
 have reason to bless Him for ever for the search- 
 
MINISTERIAL DISCOURAGEMENTS. 23 
 
 ings of heart by which He prepares us alike for 
 peace and strength. 
 
 That night they caught nothing. He was 
 not with them. They had not yet learned the 
 secret of His Risen Life. They knew not yet 
 that the bodily absence is the Spiritual Presence, 
 and that they who have faith to see the Invisible 
 and to grasp the Divine, are by that sight and 
 by that contact made strong for conflict with all 
 the powers of evil — yea, as it is written, more than 
 conquerors through Him that loved us. 
 
III. 
 
 ' notes of greek testament reading. 
 2 Timothy ii. i — 13. 
 
 I. 2u ovv, Tetcvov fxov, ivZvvajxov iv Trj ^opin Trj iv Xpio~T<S 'Jrjffov. 
 
 Hkvov fxov] Timothy was converted by St. 
 Paul's own ministry (1 Tim. i. 2 ; 2 Tim. i. 2, 13), 
 probably in the first visit to Derbe and Lystra, 
 Acts xiv. 6 ; for he was already a /laOriTrig in xvi. 1. 
 There is such a thing as a new and spiritual 
 relationship between man and man : in the course 
 of his ministry a Clergyman should have many 
 such " children." 
 
 ivSwafiov] We all want Svvafxig — a breath up- 
 sets us. The tense expresses a gradual, progressive, 
 continuous " envelopement in strength." We must 
 
2 TIMOTHY II. i— 13. 
 
 25 
 
 be always looking up for it. Where is it to be 
 found ? Not in books, not from one another, but 
 tv rij yapin, in the great \apiQ, the free spon- 
 taneous favour, which is the announcement of 
 the Gospel. And where is this \apig ? It is 
 " in," within, inside, " Christ Jesus." St. Paul's 
 whole doctrine, whole life, is here. The \apig is 
 not loose or vague ; not here, there, or anywhere — 
 it is definite : Christ contains it. 
 
 2. Kal & fiKOvffas %ap' ifiov 5ia ttoWwv fiaprupuv, raura wapdOov 
 ttiarois avBptlnrois, o'iriyes 'iKavoi iaovrai /cal erepovs 5iSa|oi. 
 
 I'lKovaag] " didst hear," when I first taught thee 
 the Gospel. We ought to have a definite Gospel 
 to communicate, in the strength of which the new 
 life is to be lived. 
 
 Sta] might be " among " (as in 2 Cor. ii. 4) : 
 but it is more — " by means of" — suggesting the 
 actual aid given by the paprvptg, who were not 
 merely "spectators" (in the loose sense of "wit- 
 nesses ") of Timothy's instruction, but definite 
 independent " witnesses" to the truth of the thing 
 taught. So in Heb. xii. 1, where the vityoq 
 papTvpwv is often misunderstood. 
 
26 NOTES OF GREEK TESTAMENT READING, 
 
 Trapadov] "lay up with," deposit in the hands 
 of. Observe the twofold Trapa6i)icr) of these Epistles 
 to Timothy : (i) that which the disciple deposits in 
 the hands of Christ (2 Tim. i. 12 ; compare I Pet. iv. 
 19) ; (2) that which Christ deposits in the hands of 
 the disciple (1 Tim. vi. 20; 2 Tim. i. 14). The 
 latter is the thought here. The irapaO^Ki) of the 
 Gospel is to be handed on. And that, by oral 
 transmission. The Gospel was not first a book — 
 it was a voice : then God supplements, steadies, 
 corrects, by a Book of books. The Clergyman is 
 not only to carry a book, he is to be a voice. 
 'Eyio 0wv7j (John i. 23). " Pastors and teachers " 
 are a Pentecostal gift (Eph. iv. 11) ; the men them- 
 selves, as such. We are a link in the long chain : 
 " life and doctrine " must be paprvptg. The Bible 
 informs, but does not supersede, the personal 
 paprvp'ta. 
 
 3. 2,vyKaKOTrd8rt(Tov ois Ka\hs arparidiTr]% Xpicrrov 'bjcrou. 
 
 <TvyKanoTra6)i<Tov] The right reading (not av ovv 
 KaKOTraOriGov). For Timothy, it was a charge to 
 bear " sufferings " with St. Paul and others. For 
 us, " hardness " is the more suitable idea : not to be 
 
2 TIMOTHY II. i— 13. 
 
 27 
 
 luxurious or effeminate, but be willing to live a 
 plain, simple, and hardy life. 
 
 4-6. OuSelr crTpa.rev6fi.tvos f/j.w\eKerat rafs rov filov Trpay/xareiais, 
 "va r$ arpitrr o\oy't\o~avr 1 apfurj. iav Se Ktxl aBAfj ris, ov crecpa- 
 vovrai iav /j.rj voixijxas aOK^ari. rbv Koiriuvra ytwpybv 5fi irpwrov 
 tuu Kapiruf fxnaXaixfiaveiv . 
 
 Three examples ; and one point taken in 
 each. (1) The minister a soldier. The point 
 selected (out of many) in the soldier's life is its 
 devotion ; the singleness of its regard to the will of 
 the commander, its readiness to go hither or 
 thither on the instant at his order, and its 
 consequent necessary disentanglement from the 
 irpajfxare'iaL of life. We Clergymen are soldiers. 
 We must " give ourselves wholly " to the work 
 of our calling. Even Church business may be an 
 entanglement, with its Committees, charities, &c. 
 As much as may be, let others " serve tables : " 
 "prayer and the ministry of the Word" are our 
 business. 
 
 (2) The minister an athlete. Special point — 
 regidarity ; the most minute and punctual attention 
 to the exact v6\xoq of the contest. The aA^avoq will 
 
28 NOTES OF GREEK TESTAMENT READING. 
 
 be forfeited, if the running has not been strictly 
 vofi'i/iwg. We must be exact, regular, accurate 
 (compare Eph. v. 15, aicpifiiog Trtpnra-uTe) in follow- 
 ing Christ's rule. There must be no " little " 
 departures from duty, personal or ministerial ; no 
 slight or careless performance of offices ; no trifling 
 with small indulgences, &c. Some of us need the 
 caution against a sort of slipshod living. 
 
 (3) The minister a husbandman. " It is the 
 toiling husbandman (not the idler) who must be 
 (deserves and is sure to be) the first to partake 
 of the harvest." Special point of this third 
 comparison is diligence. How often do we incur 
 a just reproach on this score ! An idle Clergy- 
 man ought to be at least as impossible as an idle 
 lawyer or doctor in fullest practice. 
 
 7. Nrfei Si Xr/ai' Sdaet yap croi 6 Kvpios (Tvvsaiv iv iraffiv. 
 
 voet] Not " consider," but " understand," appre- 
 hend, take into your mind. There is more in 
 " what I say " than meets the ear. A spiritual 
 understanding is needed. And I can bid you 
 understand—"/^" (not " and " A. V.) &c. 
 
2 TIMOTHY II. i— 13. 
 
 29 
 
 Swo-Ef] Not 8<jjjj. The comforting thought is, 
 that Christ zw7/ give. We must pray for spiritual 
 intelligence. In the multitude of counsellors and 
 commentators, we are apt to forget this. 
 
 8-IO. Mviiix6uzve 'lr]oovv Xptarbv tyrjycpfievov Ik vsKpwv, iK OTrip- 
 juaror Aavti'5, Kara rb evayye\t6u fiov' iv § KaKO-rraBw /jl^xP' 
 ZeffjxSiv is Kaicoupyos' aWa. 6 \6yos rov 0eoO ov SeSercu. Sia 
 tovto iravra virofxepu Sia tovs (kK^ktovs, 'Iva Kal avrol ffuiTT)- 
 ptas tv)(_<>>giv T7)s eV Xpi<TT<J> 'I7)<ro0 /acto. 5o|r;9 alwptov. 
 
 fivrifxovtvt] " Have ever printed in your remem- 
 brance " (Ordination of Priests). The Resurrection 
 is to be the animating and stimulating thought. 
 (1) It set the seal of God to every word and 
 work of Christ. A dead man cannot raise him- 
 self : a dead impostor, who has always appealed 
 to resurrection as his proof, will not be raised by 
 God. (2) It gave Christ back to be the living 
 Lord of the Church. (3) If He rose, we rose 
 (Col. iii. 1) : sin is done with (Rom. vi. 7) : our 
 life is in heaven. Everything turns upon our 
 perpetual remembrance of the Resurrection. 
 
 tK mrtpfxarog AaveiS] Seems out of place at 
 first; but it is to remind us of (1) the true Hu- 
 manity, (2) the true Messiahship, fulfilling prophecy. 
 
30 NOTES OF GREEK TESTAMENT READING. 
 
 II-13. Tlicrrbs 6 \6yos' el yap o~vvaire6avo)xev, Kal <jvv£r)0~ofxev el 
 virofj.evoiJ.ev, «a\ avfifiaatAevaofiev el apvria6fie6a, KaKelvos apvi)- 
 fferai ii/xas- el airiarovfiev, eKelvos iruTThs jJ-evei, apv{\<raa6ai 
 yap eavrhv ov Svparai. 
 
 6 \6yog] " The word which we all know." It 
 is not necessary to suppose a Christian hymn, or 
 any formal quotation. The clauses which follow 
 are primary maxims, more or less stereotyped by 
 frequent repetition. 
 
 (TwawtOavofitv] Not " be dead " (A. V.), but 
 " died : " that is, died when Christ died. Union 
 with Christ dates back not only to the individual 
 baptism, but to the resurrection of Christ Himself. 
 
 awfrt'jcrojuev] Not hereafter only, but now. 
 Compare Rom. vi. 8, 1 1. 
 
 vTTo/iivofitv] Not Trda\ofitv. " If we endure," 
 bear up under suffering, exercise that " patience " 
 which is "subject waiting." 
 
 avfijiauiXtixTOfiev] Not hereafter only. The 
 reign of Christ is now (i Cor. xy. 25). That reign 
 we ought to share now. " He hath made us 
 kings " (Rev. i. 6), and we must not be slaves or 
 cowards. 
 
2 TIMOTHY II. i -13. 
 
 31 
 
 a/oi>j}<To/zE0a] To " deny " is to say, or act as if 
 we said, " I do not know the man " (Matt. xxvi. 72). 
 
 apvi'iaf-Tai] "I know you not" (Matt. xxv. 12). 
 " I never knew you " (Matt. vii. 23). 
 
 011 Evvarai.] It is an impossibility for Christ to 
 " deny Himself ; " to say, " I am not that I am." 
 
IV. 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 It is the purpose of our present meeting to inter- 
 change thoughts upon some topic closely con- 
 cerning either our spiritual or our ministerial life. 
 The two are, indeed, so intimately blended together, 
 that what concerns one must concern both. I 
 trust that the subject on which we are to converse 
 now, will be found to answer this description. It 
 is a matter lying somewhat heavily upon the 
 consciences of some of us. We should be thank- 
 ful for advice upon it. I will say, by way of 
 preface, that I must be understood as not in any 
 sense laying down the law upon matters which 
 admit of a vast variety both of opinion and 
 counsel; but only as offering a few homely practical 
 suggestions for the consideration and examination 
 of others — knowing, by long experience, that they 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 33 
 
 will be received with the greatest kindness and 
 confidence by those to whom they are addressed, 
 and whom I have ever found so ready to listen to 
 the words, spoken and written, of earnest, affec- 
 tionate, and loving exhortation. 
 
 "The Clergyman's Study" is suggestive of many 
 reflections. It is a sacred place. There he equips 
 himself for ministering. There he reads, meditates, 
 writes, and prays. There he prepares those words 
 of doctrine, of exhortation, of comfort, which are to 
 reveal hearts to themselves in the Congregation, to 
 stir consciences to repentance, to quicken resolutions 
 of self-improvement, to make God and Christ and 
 the way of salvation better known, and to furnish 
 a whole week of his people's lives with its pabulum 
 of holy thought and heavenward aspiration. 
 
 The Clergyman's Study ought to be (as far as 
 possible) his sanctuary. He should regard it him- 
 self, he should make his household regard it, with 
 something of reverence. One spot in it will be his 
 oratory. Here stands his desk of toil, there his 
 seat of counsel, there his chair of brief repose 
 between two severe exercises of ministry. Those 
 
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34 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 who enter this Study ought to come on busi- 
 ness. Concerns of the soul ought to predominate. 
 Loungers, tattlers, jesters, ought here to feel them- 
 selves out of place. 
 
 From these general terms we must turn now to 
 a few particulars. And I must narrow my subject, 
 lest I leave it all vague. Thus I shall pass by two 
 most important uses of the Study, as requiring 
 separate treatment ; I might even say, as being 
 almost too private and too personal for even this 
 friendly discussion. I speak of the Clergyman's 
 prayers, and of the Clergyman's counsels. It is, 
 indeed, chiefly by the first of these that he has any 
 ministry in him at all. One minute of prayer is 
 worth a day of labour. The Clergyman's " time- 
 table" is self-condemned, if it shows hour after 
 hour assigned to ministerial duty, and no spaces 
 left for spiritual recruiting. To pray is to work. 
 
 The other aspect of the Study, not now to be 
 dwelt upon, is that of the consultation-room. Most 
 Clergymen, whatever their Church views, find them- 
 selves compelled sometimes to receive confessions. 
 In other words, they are the natural referees in 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 35 
 
 cases of conscience ; and cannot, if they would, 
 evade the necessity of ministering privately to 
 spiritual disease. It may be in the form of diffi- 
 culties in believing. It may be in the form of 
 perplexities in acting. It may be in the form of 
 distresses about sin — the forgiveness of the past, or 
 strength against the present. In some form or 
 other, the Study must sometimes be a Confessional ; 
 and one of the most anxious, most trying, most 
 exhausting parts of the Clergyman's day is given 
 of necessity to this office. Another element is 
 thus added to the sanctity of the Study — another 
 reason for engraving legibly and indelibly upon its 
 threshold, " Holiness to the Lord." 
 
 But now I am to confine your thoughts to one 
 topic, large enough, and too large, for this occasion 
 — that of the Clergyman in his Study, at work, and 
 alone. Minds are perplexed — it is no exaggeration 
 to say that consciences are burdened, about this 
 particular use of the Study. I find young Clergy- 
 men troubled about their reading. They complain 
 of want of time for it. They complain scarcely 
 less of want of direction ; they know not what to 
 
36 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 read, when they have the time. Nor is this true, I 
 can testify, only of the young. 
 
 What is suggested on such a subject must be 
 plain and homely. 
 
 One chief difficulty is as to reading the Bible. 
 We all feel that the Bible must be read, if we are 
 to be qualified for any ministry. But then arises 
 the question, How ? And while we are looking 
 about us for an answer, the time is gone — we must 
 go forth again, fit or unfit, to visit the sick, or to 
 teach in the School, or to preach the Sermon. 
 
 One slight help may be found in a resolute 
 division of our Scripture reading into three kinds 
 and methods. 
 
 Let me suggest that we keep our devotional 
 study of the Bible altogether distinct from the 
 critical study on the one hand, and from the 
 ministerial study on the other. 
 
 We find our devotional reading sadly marred 
 and neutralized by the perpetual intrusion, even 
 when we are upon our knees, of the thought, 
 " Would not this verse make a good text ? " A 
 sweet and comforting breath of the Holy Spirit 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 37 
 
 upon our own soul is thus corrupted into a sort of 
 appliance and convenience for ministering : and thus 
 the Clergyman, who doubly wants the feeding and 
 watering of his own soul, has but half the chance of 
 other people for getting it. It is well, I think, when 
 we are trying to get personal good from the Bible, 
 to repel, almost as a temptation, the inclination to 
 that sort of side-look, of which I have spoken, to its 
 possible use for texts and Sermons. 
 
 It may not suit all tastes or all judgments — but 
 is it not quite allowable, for our devotional reading, 
 to be somewhat eclectic in our study — to turn rather 
 to the Psalms (and not all of them), or to special 
 Chapters of the Gospels and Epistles, rather than 
 to make a point of going straight through all Books 
 and all Chapters in a strictly systematic order ? 
 For my own part, I count it no irreverence and 
 no superstition even to open the Book by chance 
 and at random, to practise a sort of sacred lottery 
 in the reading, and to see what may fall first under 
 the eye as a sort of oracle of guidance — a sort of 
 Providential hint for the soul's edifying and for 
 the discipline of the life for that day. 
 
38 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 Having, thus or otherwise, secured a fragment 
 of spiritual food, a drop of spiritual water, from the 
 Book of books for myself, I would next devote a 
 certain time each day to the study of the Bible for 
 understanding and doctrine. And here I would 
 be as systematic as I was before desultory. A few 
 verses, following upon those of yesterday, preceding 
 those of to-morrow, should be minutely, microscopi- 
 cally examined, with Dictionary and Concordance ; 
 then their sense gathered by close pondering ; at 
 last (not at first) illustrated by note and comment 
 of others ; then a few memoranda made, in inter- 
 leaved copy or note-book — and thus the work of 
 that morning, however short in time or small in 
 quantity, added to the stock of knowledge — in 
 other words, to that store of appropriated and 
 individualized Divinity, out of which you are to 
 take, in future, alike your devotional portion for 
 yourself, and your ministerial portion for your 
 people. We cannot know, till we have made our 
 own, by critical study, the particular Gospel or 
 Epistle as a whole, what it has in it either of 
 edification or doctrine — whether for the soul's use 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 39 
 
 in private devotion, or for the Church's use in public 
 preaching. 
 
 There will follow, then, third in order, the use of 
 the Bible textually for Sermons. It is a deeply 
 responsible charge, that of selecting the verse or 
 the clause, upon which is to be thrown the whole 
 weight, for that week, of a Congregation's profiting. 
 How earnest ought we to be, to throw aside, and 
 to tread underfoot, all that silly vanity which bids 
 us, in this way as in so many other ways, to preach 
 ourselves — which would have us ask, Can I display 
 my ingenuity, can I bring out my learning, can I 
 startle, impress, or please, by taking for my text this 
 unexpected phrase, that obscure or buried saying, 
 of the Bible — when I see, all the time, that, handled 
 as alone I can handle it, it presents nothing which 
 could stir a conscience, instruct a soul, or affect a life ? 
 How straightforward should we be in our pursuit 
 of edifying ! not necessarily refusing a deeper or 
 less obvious passage of Scripture, if we feel it to 
 contain, read as we read it, some useful lesson, or 
 some solemn warning, or some striking appeal — not 
 binding ourselves to one stereotyped formula of 
 
40 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 doctrine, to be brought out in each Sermon, for fear 
 lest perhaps we should be guilty of stifling the very 
 Gospel itself of salvation ; but still, jealous of 
 affecting novelty, jealous of wrapping up truth in 
 too many folds of fancy or subtlety, jealous over 
 ourselves with a godly jealousy, lest we either waste 
 the time of souls, or retard their practical progress, 
 through Christ, by the Spirit, unto the Father. 
 
 We are bound to place first, and first by a long 
 interval, the reading (in all its forms) of that one 
 Book which is the Clergyman's text-book and 
 storehouse. But the operation of conscience, in 
 this department, does not and ought not to stop 
 with the Bible. Upon every Deacon and every 
 Priest, of all those ordained by our Bishops, is 
 laid the solemn injunction, interpreted into some- 
 thing beyond St. Paul's intention — Till I come, 
 give attendance to reading. I could sometimes 
 wish that the general charge were individualized 
 and brought home. In the interval, indeed, 
 between the two Ordinations, it is tolerably clear 
 that the "reading" may well satisfy itself with 
 Examination subjects — of which the second study, 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 4 1 
 
 where such it is, may easily be made the more 
 thorough and the more profitable. 
 
 It is after the Ordination of the young Priest 
 that the question of reading begins to press 
 most heavily upon the conscience. If he is a man 
 of modesty and good sense, he takes a slighting 
 estimate of his own existing acquirements. He 
 looks forward to a life-long ministry — and he asks 
 himself, What store is provided for such a cam- 
 paign ? How shall I get through ten years, thirty 
 years, fifty years, 'of this perpetual giving out, 
 without an equal assiduity in taking in ? 
 
 This enquiry is reasonable, and there ought to 
 be somewhere an answer to it. 
 
 There are, no doubt, cases in which reading 
 is a physical impossibility. There are Parishes so 
 vast, that the very sick-list alone precludes every- 
 thing but out-door labour. When to this hindrance 
 you have added two others — feeble health, and 
 an unintellectual mind — you will see how large 
 a deduction must be made from the reading 
 possibilities of the English Ministry. It makes 
 us regret more bitterly the haste, the precipitancy, 
 
4 2 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN TV HIS STUDY. 
 
 with which many men have rushed into Holy 
 Orders — without time, without effort, without direc- 
 tion, for reading. And yet, here also, we must be 
 cold-hearted judges, if we do not take into account 
 a thousand impediments, domestic, financial, and 
 personal, which have lain in the way of that sort 
 of preparation which it is so easy to put upon 
 paper, and so difficult to work out in life. 
 
 We must take the Church as it is — the Ministry, 
 as well as the people — and adapt our counsels rather 
 to fact than to theory. 
 
 I can never consent to that view of reading 
 — except it be the devotional reading of Holy 
 Scripture — which should represent it as the absolute 
 condition, or the decisive criterion, of an accept- 
 able Ministry. I have known men whose reading 
 restricted itself practically to the Bible and the 
 Times, and who yet, by the help of these two, 
 and by the help also of an attentive eye, a shrewd 
 observation, and a natural originality, were among 
 the most effective and the most honourable repre- 
 sentatives of our Church in their neighbourhood 
 and in their generation. But a man must be an 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 43 
 
 able man to do this : and even he would be none 
 the worse — he would have been very much the 
 better, for a little book-learning, and a little 
 converse with great minds of the past and of the 
 present. 
 
 For most men — making due allowances, leaving 
 a certain margin for impossibilities and inaptitudes 
 —the charge to give attendance to reading is 
 one which ought to lie upon the conscience, and 
 which cannot be set aside without injury. 
 
 What I complain of is this — that, while a 
 thousand voices echo the charge to read, not one is 
 clear and intelligible in answer to the question, 
 What shall I read ? 
 
 Young men, young Clergymen, are very tract- 
 able : but they do want direction. Many of them — 
 it is no reproach — are men of average intellect, 
 little originality, scant education : they feel, what 
 we have all felt in our time, How I wish I were 
 still at School — with my day's lesson set me, and 
 my master's voice calling me up by my name to 
 construe it! I believe that even a counterfeit of 
 that voice would be welcome. I have sometimes 
 
44 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 ventured to think that, if a Bishop, or if a 
 Clerical Meeting, or if a Ruridecanal Chapter, 
 would suggest, year by year, a list of four or six 
 books, new and old, for the young Priests of the 
 Diocese or the district to master — however com- 
 monplace, however obvious, those books might be, 
 however little superior — I will say, however inferior 
 — they might be to other books which might have 
 been named and were not — still this enormous gain 
 would attend the recommendation, that there 
 would be an end of that idle looking about us, of 
 that most profitless of all questions, What is the 
 right book ? what is the best book ? when in 
 reality there are thousands of right books, thousands 
 of bests, and when the true benefit sought lies 
 even more in the act of reading than in the par- 
 ticular thing read. 
 
 So deeply do I feel the last word spoken, that 
 I would even go so far as to say, Be not over- 
 anxious even as to the sacred, the directly religious, 
 character of the book to which you apply yourself. 
 If you are in close converse day by day with the 
 Bible — if you are in direct communion day by day 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 45 
 
 with your God- — then, for the purpose (no slight 
 one) of stirring the stagnant waters of idea and 
 intellect, of correcting faults of style, suggesting 
 beauties of expression, giving force to your lan- 
 guage and pungency to your writing, do not disdain 
 the great masters of English literature — do not 
 count as common or unclean the Shakspeares 
 and Miltons, the Bacons and Clarendons, the 
 Burkes and Macaulays, of poetry, of oratory, of 
 philosophy, of history. Your Sermons will be the 
 better for your acquaintance with one page of one 
 of these — provided always, let us say it again and 
 again, that the Bible be the suggester of your 
 doctrine, and the Holy Ghost the inspirer of your 
 exhortation. 
 
 There are certain great foundation books, more- 
 over, of our own English Theology, which ought 
 never to be far off from your desk and from your 
 chair. They are worth everything to us, as wit- 
 nesses to the solidity, to the reasonableness, to the 
 authority, of the faith once delivered. Such books 
 — I utter a truism in naming them — as Butler's 
 Analogy, Paley's Horae Paulinas, and Davison's 
 
46 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 n 
 
 Discourses on Prophecy, are full of strength, full of 
 wisdom, full of comfort, for these times, and would 
 be found invaluable, by thousands who despise 
 them unread, as substitutes for much of the so- 
 called Church Literature of the day, with its in- 
 solent comments on Bishops, and its exaggerations 
 of dress and posture into realities of the first mag- 
 nitude. 
 
 I have sometimes thought of suggesting, to men 
 desirous of direction, yet limited in their time for 
 reading, the very simple expedient of an annual 
 subscription of one guinea to Clark's Theological 
 Library ; furnishing them with four Volumes, each 
 year, of tolerable translations of the best works of 
 the German Evangelical School of Divines — full of 
 learning, full of piety— large indeed in their in- 
 tellectual range, yet (so far as I have observed) 
 firm in their hold upon the essentials of the Faith.* 
 
 * I will add a very humble list of books, some of which were 
 mentioned in the course of the discussion which followed the reading 
 of this Paper. They are given without any systematic arrangement 
 I have not included those which are the ordinary subjects of Exam- 
 inations for Orders. 
 
 Hey's Lectures in Divinity. Book IV. 
 
 Shedd's History of Christian Doctrine. 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 47 
 
 But there must be multitudes of men, I hope 
 and I believe it, whose capabilities of reading go 
 
 Westcott's Introduction to the Study of the Gospels. 
 Westcott's Gospel of the Resurrection. 
 
 Lightfoot's Epistles of St. Paul — Galatians, Philippians, Colos- 
 sians and Philemon. 
 
 Lange's Commentaries on the first three Gospels, and Acts. 
 
 Delitzsch on the Epistle to the Hebrews. 
 
 Maurice's Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament. 
 
 Perowne on the Book of Psalms. 
 
 Pusey on the Minor Prophets. 
 
 Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epistles of St. Paul. 
 
 Stanley's Sinai and Palestine. 
 
 Stanley's Lectures on the Jewish Church. 
 
 Dorner's Doctrine of the Person of Christ. Division I. 
 
 Luthardt's Fundamental Truths of Christianity. 
 
 Martensen's Christian Dogmatics. 
 
 Muller on the Christian Doctrine of Sin. 
 
 Fuller's History of the English Church. 
 
 Neander's Church History, Vol. I. 
 
 Milman's History of Latin Christianity. 
 
 Farrar's Life of Christ. 
 
 Ellicott's Historical Lectures on the Life of Our Lord. 
 De Pressense's Jesus Christ — His Times, Life, and Work. 
 Drew's Reasons for Faith. 
 
 Liddon's Bampton Lectures on the Divinity of our Lord. 
 
 Robertson's Sermons. 
 
 Arnold's Sermons, Vols. IV. and V. 
 
 De Pressense's Mystery of Suffering. 
 
 Baldwin Brown's Exodus and Pilgrimage of the Soul. 
 
 Trench on the Parables and Miracles. 
 
 Trench's New Testament Synonyms. 
 
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 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 much beyond this ; whose own fault it is if they 
 have not three or four mornings in every week at 
 their service for self-culture and self-improvement. 
 A little more method, a little more judgment, a little 
 more self-denial in the simple matter of early rising", 
 would largely add to their hours of study, and at 
 the same time brace rather than relax the muscle 
 and sinew of their Pastoral Ministry. The mere 
 anxiety to redeem time for study, if it be not 
 allowed to introduce a tone of hurry and reluctance 
 into other and more absolutely necessary work, 
 would give a purposelike and an earnest and a 
 self- controlled spirit to the ministerial occupations 
 of the afternoon, and thus react, beneficially, not 
 injuriously, upon all departments of labour. 
 
 Edward Irving's Collected Works, Vol. I. 
 George Herbert's Country Parson. 
 
 Archdeacon Bather's Charges on various Ministerial Duties. 
 
 Archdeacon Evans's Bishopric of Souls. 
 
 Life of Henry Venn. 
 
 Life of Henry Martyn. 
 
 Stanley's Life of Arnold. 
 
 Life of Bishop Cotton. 
 
 Life of Bishop Patteson. 
 
 Records of the Ministry of the Rev. E. T. M. Phillipps, of 
 Hathem. 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 49 
 
 To advise such men as to their subjects of 
 study would be a difficult and almost pre- 
 sumptuous task. They will probably feel that it 
 is a point of duty .to keep themselves abreast of 
 the contemporary history and of the current litera- 
 ture of their day. Even for preaching this is 
 desirable. A well-informed man in these respects 
 will preach the better, because the more interest- 
 ingly and appropriately to the particular hearers 
 and to the generation of to-day. In society, so 
 far as he mixes in it, it is always a reproach, and 
 therefore a loss of influence, to be justly called 
 "behindhand." Nevertheless, I cannot but think 
 that no man need be a dreary preacher or a dull 
 companion, who is an earnest student of anything. 
 It would be an advantage to the Church if every 
 man had his subject, in which he was more 
 particularly at home, and upon which he was able 
 to give information, at first hand, to any enquirer. 
 The knowledge of any one science, the knowledge 
 of any one period of history, of any one branch 
 of literature, I had almost said of any one Author 
 — such knowledge, I mean, as is acquired by living 
 
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50 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 in the one or living with the other — becomes, of 
 itself, an attraction and an influence — in proportion, 
 of course, to the modesty and good sense with 
 which the knowledge is handled and utilized in 
 communication. I could wish, for example, that 
 a young Clergyman, with a population not too 
 large to leave him some leisure for study — instead 
 of trying to acquire a smattering of all Anglican 
 or of all Patristic Theology — which must involve a 
 dangerous reliance upon that culling and coddling 
 process by which partisans of one school or another 
 turn to the account of their own "views" the 
 testimony of an honoured or a primitive antiquity — 
 would take some one Father of the Church, read 
 him, for himself, in the original, " get him up " as 
 he would have done a Classical Author for the 
 Schools at Oxford, and become so thoroughly 
 imbued with the language, the doctrine, the 
 thought, of that one light of Christendom, as to 
 be an intelligent and authoritative corrector, when 
 others misinterpret, misread, misquote him. 
 
 One of ourselves — a dear and honoured member 
 of our own body, whose Clerical duty was com- 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 5i 
 
 paratively light — has been enabled, in this way, to 
 complete a Life of Chrysostom, founded upon the 
 personal study of the whole of his voluminous 
 writings. It is a book highly spoken of by its 
 critics, and one which promises other achievements 
 in the same field of theological literature. The 
 example may possibly be followed by some other 
 toilers in the Study, not deserting for it any more 
 pressing or more sacred ministerial duty. 
 
 Some Clergymen are taunted with a dangerous 
 ignorance of the prevailing tendencies of the day 
 towards scepticism and unbelief. They are accused 
 of living in a fool's Paradise of old-fashioned ideas 
 and prejudices, while the foundations of all faith 
 and all religion are being sapped and mined 
 beneath them. It is a matter of anxiety with 
 many of us to know how far we are bound, in 
 faithfulness to our people and to ourselves, to 
 read books whose name is legion, and each one of 
 which is a libel upon our Christianity, in order 
 that we may be duly equipped to confront the 
 sceptic in the shops, the counting-houses, and the 
 libraries, of our Parish. 
 
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 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 The question is one, for some of us, not so 
 much of serving others as of saving ourselves. 
 Some minds are terribly distressed, perilously- 
 shaken, by suggestions of doubting. They cannot 
 recover from the shock of reading page after page, 
 volume after volume, of writers who calmly set 
 aside the Divinity of our Lord or the credibility 
 of the Gospel, and whose whole idea and concep- 
 tion of the soul's life is in direct and 'absolute 
 variance with that of the Church and the Christian. 
 They go back from such reading or such conversa- 
 tion to their Bible, to their Sermon, to their prayers, 
 to their visiting, with a miserable misgiving as to 
 whether, indeed, there be such a thing as truth in 
 one word of that whole system in which they have 
 been brought up, and to the maintenance of which 
 their professional life is now given. Sad instances 
 have occurred of men so utterly shipwrecked by 
 these evil communications as to renounce their 
 Holy Orders, and seek for themselves some in- 
 different, if not antagonistic, position to that which 
 they once seriously and devoutly chose for their own. 
 
 I am persuaded that there are men who have 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 53 
 
 neither the head nor the soul for this kind of read- 
 ing. They are unused to the difficult task of 
 weighing and pondering. They are in the habit 
 of swallowing, not of digesting. They cannot bear 
 to read with suspicion, and they have not the 
 faculty of reading with judgment. The last thing 
 read is their opinion for the present. Their Sermon 
 of next Sunday will be just the residuum of their 
 this week's reading. They are High Churchmen 
 one year, and half Dissenters another, according as 
 the Book Society or the Rector's table has brought 
 round to their notice this volume or that. Such a 
 habit of mind is indeed fatal to profiting. And 
 where the time for reading is scanty, as well as the 
 intellectual power small, who can blame the man 
 who gives the time he has, and the power he has, 
 to salutary rather than noxious study. 
 
 A man is not to be blamed for not holding 
 everything always as an open question. If the 
 Gospel be true, it is not an opinion, but a life : 
 when a man has once resolved to live this particular 
 life, and to die this particular death, he is not to 
 rise each morning to reopen and to resettle it. It 
 
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 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 is no reproach to his honesty, or to his candour, or 
 to his intelligence, if he says at last to the infidel 
 writer or infidel arguer, " I have taken Christ for 
 my Master, and I am no more justified in enquiring 
 each day whether He is an enthusiast or whether 
 He is an impostor, than a servant is bound to 
 listen to every libel upon his employer, or a child 
 to admit, instead of resenting, a reflection upon his 
 father's honour or his father's character." But then 
 you see how great a demand this makes upon us, 
 first, to have a reason for the faith that is in us, 
 and secondly, to be really living that spiritual life 
 which is the daily proof and evidence of Christ's 
 Gospel. 
 
 Also let the man who knows that he knows 
 nothing about the so-called philosophy or the so- 
 called theology of the day, beware how he speaks 
 as though he knew all. Let a modest silence, 
 especially from words of censure and condemna- 
 tion, be the tribute he pays to a subject which is 
 out of his reach. Even learned men, even well- 
 informed men, even doubters and unbelievers, can 
 respect the humble, the guarded, the devout utter- 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 55 
 
 ance of one who loves the truth as he sees it, 
 and speaks out of a full heart the thing which he 
 has learned by prayer and watching. One positive 
 is worth ten thousand negatives : if a man has what 
 St. John calls the witness in himself — if he finds 
 the Gospel of Jesus Christ sweet to his soul and 
 powerful in his life — he need not be afraid of any 
 evil tidings from the quarter of an audacious 
 guessing or of a self-satisfied wisdom. Such a man 
 is not obliged to skulk or cower or hide himself, 
 because he has not read the book which has under- 
 mined the faith of half his generation. He knows 
 God by a higher intuition than can be darkened or 
 blinded by any objections or by any contradictions. 
 What he reads of these does not stagger him : he 
 can read all, and yet hold fast the truth : if he does 
 not read all, it is not because he is frightened to do 
 so, but because he has something better to do and 
 something more edifying to tell. Let us make our 
 own, by living up to it, the faith we hold — and it 
 shall be a growing and deepening conviction, over 
 which neither difficulty nor doubt shall have a 
 disturbing power. 
 
56 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 There is one kind of reading, which has a 
 special attraction for Clergymen, and that is, the 
 department of published Sermons. It is a most 
 important element of our clerical training, if there 
 be seriousness, and if there be judgment, in its use. 
 As a rule, I incline to think, Sermons of modern 
 date will be found more helpful, in reference to 
 preaching, than the more ponderous and stately 
 homilies of the third or the sixth generation behind 
 us. The idea of a Sermon has changed, within 
 the recollection of some of us. I will not say, 
 wholly for the better, but still decisively and beyond 
 reversal. The best preachers of the last quarter of 
 a century, of whatever party — I might say, of what- 
 ever denomination ; for in this matter we may learn 
 from those who widely dissent from us — will be the 
 best resource for men who would earnestly improve 
 their own Sermons, not by borrowing from any 
 quarter, but by getting good from all. I would only 
 suggest that the Sermons of other men should be 
 used rather for sowing than for reaping — rather as 
 general fertilizers than as immediate prompters ; 
 that we rarely preach at once upon a text or a sub- 
 
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 ject got from another ; that, if urgent need compels 
 this, we should resolutely close the book before we 
 enter upon the writing ; and in all things remember 
 that God expects of us the use of our own gift, not 
 the substitution for it of another's higher and better. 
 
 I will venture to add one word, which I feel to 
 be comforting, to those of my young brethren who 
 may have been inclined to reproach themselves 
 but too bitterly for the deficiencies of their reading. 
 If you observe, if you think, if you pray, you have 
 the root of the matter in you for ministering. 
 Reading has its perils, has its selfishnesses, has its 
 vanities, has its sins. It is possible to make an idol 
 of the Study : and the man who does this will find 
 it growing upon him till he can scarcely dislodge 
 himself at the call of a dangerous sickness or of a 
 dying soul. Every man hath his proper gift of 
 God, one after this manner, another after that. 
 The energetic young man, whose boyhood and 
 youth were signalized by athletic prowess, but who 
 has given himself with a whole heart now to the 
 higher ministry of the soul, will naturally be more 
 at home in the Cottage than in the Study, in the 
 
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 shepherding of souls than in the storing of know- 
 ledge. Let him not be unhappy, or angry with 
 himself, on this account. God hath received 
 him. In the ministry of this great Church there 
 is room for all powers and for all capacities : like 
 the great net of the kingdom, it gathers of every 
 kind. Be faithful, be diligent, deny yourself — and 
 the Church will find a work for you — if not here, 
 then there. 
 
 It would be suitable to add a brief appendix 
 upon the Clergyman writing. But the utmost 
 limit of space and time is reached, and I must 
 conclude. I would have pictured to you, had it 
 been otherwise, something of that weighty and 
 responsible work, which is the preparation of a 
 word of exhortation and doctrine to be the 
 soul's food of the fifties or the hundreds whom 
 God shall bring together next Sunday to listen. 
 O, how anxiously does the man of God address 
 himself to this task — with what earnest prayer, 
 that God, who has all hearts in His hand, and 
 turneth them whithersoever He will, may move 
 and guide and enable his ! With what care does 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 59 
 
 he select his subject — (i) searching diligently the 
 appointed Scriptures of the coming Sunday, Lessons 
 Epistle, Gospel, to see if any word there written 
 speaks with special force and appropriateness ; 
 (2) marking carefully the Church Season, that he 
 may not disregard the wise principle of presenting 
 the Gospel (which is all fact and truth) in its pieces 
 and portions, so that each one shall have its place 
 and its turn ; (3) noticing observantly the events 
 and circumstances of his Parish and audience, so 
 that he may speak not only that which is true 
 always, but that which is now interesting; (4) taking 
 account, also, of his own spiritual experience, of the 
 thoughts which God has lately put in his heart, and 
 the passages which have lately struck him in his 
 reading — as knowing that that which comes fresh 
 and warm from the heart of the minister will ever 
 come true and lively to the hearts of the people. 
 And then, as he plans, and as he frames into 
 writing, the subject thus chosen, how does he set 
 before himself in imagination the scene which will 
 be before him when he opens his mouth to teach ! 
 How does he try each thought and each sentence 
 
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 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 by its applicability to that audience ! How does 
 he ask himself, at the turning of each page, " Will 
 this, can this, interest ? Does it interest me, the 
 writer? Does it come warm from my heart? Does 
 it stir my soul, does it provoke my tear, does it 
 arouse my conscience, does it quicken my love, as I 
 write it ? If my people heard my voice, if they did 
 everything that I bid them, if they felt every feeling 
 which my words suggest to them, would they be 
 profited, would they be changed, would they be 
 saved ? " 
 
 Thus he tries and judges his writing, as in the 
 view of consciences, as in the sight of God. With 
 him it is no composition of an essay, it is no exhibi- 
 tion of power, it is no discharge of a duty ; it is the 
 exercise of a ministry, it is the utterance of a 
 message, it is the cry of a Voice. When he has 
 done the writing, he takes it as a poor, worthless, 
 lifeless heap of paper, and he spreads it before the 
 living and the life-giving God. Breathe Thou 
 into it, O Holy Spirit ! Come from the four winds, 
 O Breath of God! and breathe upon this dead 
 thing, that it may live ! 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS STUDY. 
 
 61 
 
 Such is the writing, and such will be the preach- 
 ing. We must not look to-day beyond the four 
 walls of the Study ; or we should see this dead 
 thing laid another day upon the altar of the 
 Church, with new prayers for grace, with many a 
 stifled sob and many" a forced-back tear, so spoken 
 as that it should seem alive — God bearing it witness, 
 and consciences echoing to its truth. "The Clergy- 
 man in his Study " is now " the Clergyman in his 
 Church " — God with him in both — God putting a 
 word in his mouth, God confirming the word with 
 signs following. 
 
V. 
 
 ministerial encouragements. 
 
 St. John xxi. 6. 
 
 Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall 
 find. 
 
 Jesus speaks. Not yet known. A stranger stands 
 on the shore. It is the voice of friendly sympathy 
 alone — the voice of an elder, taking interest in the 
 success of these " toilers of the sea " — CJiildren, 
 have ye any meat? And yet there is in that 
 voice so much of authority and direction and love, 
 that they instinctively obey when it adds, Cast the 
 net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. 
 
 And when they have done this, when they 
 have cast the net under His direction, they 
 were no longer able to draw it for the multitude of 
 fishes. 
 
MINISTERIAL ENCOURAGEMENTS. 63 
 
 It was quite natural that this miracle should 
 carry back the thoughts of some of them to an 
 earlier, and make the disciple whom Jesus loved, 
 say to his friend, It is the Lord. 
 
 But there was one significant difference between 
 the miracle of the Life and the miracle of the 
 Resurrection. Then their net brake. Now, for 
 all the fish were so many, yet was not the net 
 broken. The one was a type of those poor, 
 tentative, trial missions, which alone these men had 
 been capable of in the days of their ignorance and 
 their earthliness while as yet they knew CJirist 
 only after the flesh. The other is a type of the 
 works greater even than His own (as He Him- 
 self called them) of which they should be made 
 capable when the Holy Ghost was come upon 
 them, and when now the Gospel of the kingdom 
 should be preached to all nations. 
 
 Perhaps, too, we may see in the one — the mira- 
 culous draught with the breaking nets — the specimen 
 of such successes as alone the Gospel fisherman 
 may have in this life. In the other, the foretaste 
 of the grand crowning success which the Church of 
 
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 MIXISTERIAL ENCO URA GEMENTS. 
 
 the Risen Lord shall celebrate with songs of praise 
 at the last day. 
 
 Our thought this morning was the discourage- 
 ments — to-night it is, the encouragements — of the 
 Christian Ministry. Now, as then, we can but 
 glean a grape or two from the overflowing vintage. 
 
 (i) And first we must place the assurance 
 that there is a directing Voice and a guiding 
 Hand. The disciples did not yet know the Voice 
 — and we do not always discern it. For Christ 
 speaks in many tones : all true tones are His. 
 There is the voice of circumstance — that is His. 
 There is an opening here, not there — that is of 
 Him. There is the voice of character — and that 
 is His. It suits me, it is natural to me, to do 
 or to say this thing, this word, not that. Another 
 would act and speak differently ; but Christ has 
 many rights and many bests. There is the voice of 
 influence — and that is His. This person is brought 
 nigh to me — there is a drawing of the heart 
 between us — I can say this to him which I could 
 not to another. So it is all through. 
 
 But the great, the vital point is, that Christ 
 
MINISTERIAL ENCOURAGEMENTS. 65 
 
 is the Director, and Christ is the Lord. Hearing 
 Him, sent by Him — under Him, from Him, for 
 Him — that is our strength. Without me ye can 
 do nothing. 
 
 0, how often shall I press upon you, dear 
 friends, the thought of your commission ? It is 
 such a relief, such a comfort, such a power, to 
 know that Christ has a Ministry below, and that 
 we are in it. Look up to Him, in each cloudy 
 and dark day, in each dull and monotonous day, 
 in each day when the sun shines and earth smiles 
 and life dances and sparkles, and say to Him, 
 On which side, Lord? I am a child, I am a fool — 
 guide thou me ! 
 
 (2) It is no play upon words when we go on 
 to say, that there is a right and a wrong side of the 
 ship for the casting of the Gospel net. 
 
 When Christ says, the right side, we must not 
 choose the left. 
 
 It is true in all kinds of ministering. There 
 is an awkward, clumsy, inappropriate way of 
 offering truth and love to men, as well as a way 
 which is suitable, winning — to use the figure before 
 
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 MINISTERIAL EMC OUR A GEMENTS. 
 
 us, " adroit," " dexterous," and therefore Christ's 
 way. 
 
 How human ought we to be in our application 
 of the Divine ! 
 
 Is there a house which joy hath lighted up, 
 which sorrow hath darkened ? Is there rejoicing, 
 in this home, over a man bom into the world? 
 is there lamentation in this, where a man mourneth 
 for his mother ? O, be there — ye holy and humble 
 men of heart — with your blessed sympathizing 
 Gospel, which is, in other words, Emmanuel, 
 God with us, in this life which is all His, in this 
 life so gloomy in itself, in this life so bright if 
 read in the light of heaven ! Such occurrences 
 of the human being are to the true Pastor Christ's 
 voice saying, Cast the net on the right side, and ye 
 shall find. 
 
 But even the Pulpit, as well as the Parish, has 
 its right and its left side — its right and its wrong. 
 O, how unhandy, how grotesque, how "gauche," may 
 the Gospel itself be on the lips of the preacher ! 
 Is there not indeed, in the public ministry, a casting 
 on the right side ? Here, too, I make much of the 
 
MINISTERIAL ENCOURAGEMENTS. 67 
 
 charge, Be human. O, dip the precious morsel 
 in the wine of sympathy, of self-knowledge, of 
 love ! Give not out the blessed mystery, of things 
 seen by Christ in heaven and by Him brought out 
 thence to be the life of the world — " dispense " 
 not this wonderful, this unspeakable gift, in dry 
 generalities, in theological subtleties, as though you 
 were casting a morsel to a dog who could not 
 be hurt — yet even your dog may be hurt — by the 
 indifference or by the discourtesy. No, no — make 
 it your own first ! Feel it, love it, live it, find it 
 nutritious, find it salutary, find it living and life- 
 giving to you, and then, as such, dispense, present, 
 minister it. Let nothing come from you crude 
 or repellent. Recollect, it is for their life — and 
 that it may be so, it must be your life first. 
 
 (3) The third point is, See that what you cast, 
 in this human, this sympathetic manner, be the 
 net, the Gospel net — the net of the kingdom, of 
 God, of heaven. 
 
 There may be a casting — and (in a sense on 
 the right side, and yet it may be neither hither) nor 
 thither as to the great end. 
 
68 MINISTERIAL ENCOURAGEMENTS. 
 
 A Prophet speaks — and the saying is familiar- 
 ized to us in The Christian Year- — of those who 
 sacrifice to their own net. And so may we have 
 a net of our own, and take great pains with it in 
 making and mending, and think highly of it as an 
 instrument of catching, and even fancy that it has 
 caught, because (perhaps) there is attendance and 
 there is attention, there is even a thronging and 
 pressing to hear, and because men praise and 
 applaud the thing heard, and we pass for diligent, 
 earnest, even eloquent preachers — and lo, there is 
 nothing in the net — what God calls nothing ! 
 
 Or the net may be in a different sense human 
 and not Divine. There is a strong feeling now in 
 favour of naturalness. Men are weary of doctrine. 
 What doctrine there is in modern Sermons must be 
 dressed up, or toned down, or in some way adapted 
 and modified, so as to get rid, as far as possible, of 
 the supernatural and the mystical. There must be 
 everything to please the ear, and to gratify the 
 intellect, and to touch the feeling, and to make 
 religion sensible, and to give the impression of a 
 Divine love which I might almost call a Divine 
 
MINISTERIAL ENCOURAGEMENTS. 69 
 
 good nature — and as little as possible of a dis- 
 tinct and distinctive Christianity, as little as possible 
 of Thus saith the Lord, or of This have I seen in 
 heaven. It is to be feared that the net thus cast, 
 however wide its sweep, however judicious its 
 direction, may be found to have enclosed nothing 
 — nothing of the real, the everlasting being — 
 when Christ stands in the last day upon the 
 shore, and says, Bring that which ye have caught. 
 
 The great elements of the Gospel Revelation 
 must find place in all teaching. We must never 
 consent to eliminate these, because they are un- 
 attractive, because they are even distasteful, to our 
 hearers. The sober realities, of our fallen state, of 
 our deep ingrained corruption, of our need of a 
 Sacrifice for sin, of a Divine Saviour, of a Holy 
 indwelling Spirit, of a true sanctification of heart 
 and life, in order that we may be meet for the ever- 
 lasting inheritance of the saints in light — these 
 things, not rawly or roughly flung out, not baldly 
 or stiffly enunciated, but tenderly and sweetly and 
 feelingly impressed — these, I say, must never be left 
 out or thrown behind in comparison with topics of 
 
70 MINISTERIAL ENCOURAGEMENTS. 
 
 the day, or judicious comments on passing events, 
 however easy it may be to command attention to 
 these, however reluctant may be the natural heart 
 to give heed to those. 
 
 The net thrown must be the Gospel net — for it 
 is only in the character of Gospel fishers that we 
 have any right to stand up in these Pulpits before 
 our brethren to claim their hearing in the name of 
 God. 
 
 (4) The text has one word more. Cast the 
 ?iet on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. 
 
 Surely it is a promise. A promise to us. To 
 the youngest and the least gifted of all of us. 
 Under Christ's direction — casting the true net — 
 casting on the right side — ye shall surely find. 
 
 He says not, All at once — nor, all you would — 
 nor, so as to see it now. Mysterious as it must be, 
 that Christ's seed should be sown, and fall upon 
 four kinds of ground, only one of which is receptive 
 — mysterious as it must be that Christ should have 
 all power in heaven and in earth, and yet there 
 should be evil, and abounding evil, and powerful 
 evil, not only in the world around, but in the 
 
MINISTERIAL ENCOURA GEMENTS. 
 
 71 
 
 Church itself which is His body— still such is the 
 fact, and there is no hope held out to us that it 
 will be otherwise while time is time and earth 
 earth. 
 
 Prophecy — the latest Book of all in the Bible— 
 the last Inspiration of Christ to His Churches- 
 seems rather to prepare us for an intensification 
 and exasperation of the hostile powers leading up, 
 working up, to the revelation of the Great Day. 
 T/ie way of the kings of the East is even to be 
 prepared by the drying up of the intercepting 
 Euphrates, on purpose to gather the forces the 
 more effectively and the more encouragingly to the 
 battle in which they are to meet their doom. We 
 are not to look for gradual ameliorations of nature 
 and human life till earth shall brighten naturally 
 and beautifully into a sort of Millennial heaven. 
 Christ does not say, Ye shall turn night into day, 
 sin into holiness, or men into Angels, in this 
 present. 
 
 But He says, Ye shall find— and He puts no 
 limit to our hope and to our prayer. If not all, 
 and not all at once, and not all visibly— yet some- 
 
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 thing — something real, something always, something 
 at last, and for ever. Not one earnest Sermon falls 
 quite to the ground. It bears some fruit. Some 
 conscience is quickened, or some sorrow is com- 
 forted, or some thought is suggested, or some 
 difficulty is smoothed, or some life is guided. It 
 is something, if it be not everything, that the 
 preaching of the Sunday, in these twenty thousand 
 Parishes of England, keeps up the average of 
 practice and principle, prevents God from being 
 altogether forgotten, keeps Christ in view as the 
 Redeemer and the Saviour, reprints the programme 
 of which St. Paul speaks to the Galatians, rekindles 
 the lighthouse candles which keep many a storm- 
 tossed life off the rocks and shoals of infidelity, 
 and witnesses for truth and holiness in a manner 
 salutary where it is not saving. 
 
 But O, more than this, and far more ! We 
 cannot read hearts— and it is well. Ill were it for 
 us ministers if we could follow our words into all 
 the secret places of thought and feeling. When a 
 glimpse is ever given us of the effects of our 
 preaching, we almost start as we say to ourselves, 
 
MINISTERIAL ENCOURAGEMENTS. 73 
 
 Then they took me at my word — they understood 
 me to be in earnest, and they recognized the voice 
 of God in me. 
 
 If sometimes too much cast down, we might 
 sometimes be too much elated. Wheresoever 
 Christ is preached, there is something found. 
 Some one receives the testimony. Some one passes 
 from death unto life. Some one is lifted out of 
 the mire of sense, off the dust-heap of vanity, and 
 transferred into the living kingdom of the beloved 
 Son. At last, when it is no longer dangerous for 
 flesh and blood, there shall be a revelation, an 
 unveiling, of the secrets of grace. Minister and 
 people shall meet before the throne, and for others 
 besides the Apostles shall those words of blessed 
 anticipation be verified — 
 
 What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? 
 Are not even ye, in the presence of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ at His coining? For ye are our glory 
 and joy. 
 
VI. 
 
 ministerial recreations. 
 
 St. John xxi. 12. 
 
 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. 
 
 It is a morning scene. The note of time is dis- 
 tinct. The revised reading (yivofiivrig for ytvofiiv^q) 
 of the fourth vers%, When morning was now 
 coming, adds a striking touch to the picture. 
 Come and dine, as the Greek indeed shows, is a 
 summons to the first meal of the day, to the actual 
 breaking of the night's fast. 
 
 We have dwelt already upon the evening start 
 — upon the night's failure — and upon the direction, 
 of love and power, which guided the weary fishers 
 to a supernatural draught. 
 
 We must not enlarge upon the deeply in- 
 
MINISTERIAL RECREATIONS. 
 
 75 
 
 structive particulars which lie between these and 
 the text itself. How the eye of love detects the 
 Person in the love — The disciple whom Jesus 
 loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. He had 
 outrun him to the sepulchre — now he anticipates 
 him in the sight. But as Peter was the first to 
 explore the sepulchre, so he is the first to swim 
 to the shore. Peter has that upon his heart which 
 will not wait. He girds his fisher's coat to him, 
 and casts himself into the sea. 
 
 A marvellous scene awaits them. They find 
 a fire already made — and upon it (as the Greek 
 seems to imply) a single fish, and then also a 
 single loaf, in preparation for a more than sacra- 
 mental meal. The command to bring of the fish 
 now caught will suggest to some minds a beautiful 
 thought — how Christ, the Lord of the Feast, vouch- 
 safes to make it a Communion, not only in reference 
 to the guests one with another, but also in reference 
 to Himself and them : it pleases Him, not only to 
 give, but even to receive ; to receive, indeed, of His 
 own (for what else have they to offer Him?), but 
 still to receive ; even as it is written in the last Book 
 
7 6 
 
 MINIS IE RIAL RECREA TIOXS. 
 
 of the Bible, / will come in to him, and will sup 
 with him, as well as he with me. Guest and 
 Host — such is the characteristic condescension of 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 This done, He saith unto them, Come and dine. 
 
 I have a few words to speak to you this morn- 
 ing upon " Ministerial Recreations," in that true 
 sense of the word in which it means a refreshing 
 and recruiting of the whole man with a view to the 
 more efficient resumption of labour. The text 
 seems to say to us, We Ministers serve a gracious 
 Master, and He has regard not only to our work 
 but also our resting. He has some special solaces 
 for us, over and above those which He provides for 
 His people. So sacred is our calling, in every 
 part and in every aspect, that we may speak of 
 these things amongst one another, even in this 
 sacred place, quite plainly, quite naturally, and 
 without reserve. 
 
 The Sunday evening of the Clergyman is a 
 thought by itself. The day, which for others is 
 
MIXISTERIAL RECK E A TIONS. 
 
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 restful, has been for him laborious. Not an hour 
 has been quite his own — all has been service and 
 ministry — and now the evening is come. Is there 
 not a brightness quite peculiar in that hour of 
 closing day ? How delightful, whether in his 
 home, or with a beloved friend and comrade, to 
 gather up the fragments that remain after those 
 busy hours of holy toil. How like some of those 
 simple yet graphic narratives in the Gospels, of 
 days of incessant toil, in teaching and healing and 
 feeding others, followed by an evening of holy rest- 
 ing, on lake or mountain or in some temporary home, 
 during the earthly Ministry of our Lord Himself ! 
 Who else, who that is not of us, can quite enter 
 into the charm of that resting ? How earnest 
 should we be to guard against the excess of that 
 reaction from work to repose ; to take heed to 
 ourselves, lest we suffer a spirit of idle jesting or 
 frivolous merriment to enter in and mar the holy 
 cheerfulness which ought to involve no violent jar 
 or discord either with the preceding sacred toil or 
 the following sacred devotion. 
 
 Very sweet, again, when we regard them as 
 
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 MINISTERIAL RECREATIONS. 
 
 Christ's gifts to His ministers, are those oppor- 
 tunities of intercourse one with another, which are so 
 largely multiplied in this generation, and which we, 
 in one of the purest and happiest forms, are at this 
 time enjoying. No men have so much to say and 
 to hear, in meeting with members of their own 
 Profession, as have we. Others are rivals, more 
 or less, in their career of business : we are all 
 one — one person (as St. Paul tells us) in Christ 
 Jesus. How great is the blessing of mutual con- 
 verse upon the things of God ! How large the 
 advantage of exchanging thought upon the duties 
 and upon the interests of a life twice blessed and 
 twice devoted ! 
 
 These, indeed, are in a sense, outward refresh- 
 ments — very real, but second to the highest. Let 
 us think for a moment of the invitation of Christ to 
 His ministers to refresh themselves apart with Him. 
 
 What prayers can be quite so comforting as 
 those which are (so to say) of one piece with the 
 work — those which, instead of being stolen from, 
 or forced in amongst, other employments, are in 
 fullest accord and harmony with the studies, and 
 
MINISTERIAL RECREA TIONS. 
 
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 with the pursuits, and with the aspirations of the 
 life — those which look forward to, and look back 
 upon, a day, and a succession of days, of which 
 God and Christ and the Holy Spirit are at once 
 the subject and the object ? To come back at 
 evening to the Master for whom we have been at 
 work all the day — to confide to Him our record of 
 efforts in His service, to ask His forgiveness for the 
 self and for the sin which is mixed up with the 
 best of them, to receive once again out of His 
 inexhaustible love the assurance of absolution and 
 the renewed promise of help — how blessed ! And if 
 we feel that prayer is not this to us — if we are 
 conscious that work and heart are not at one 
 in us — that the world is too much with us — that 
 old sins are still strong, and new temptations 
 alluring — that consequently there is no special 
 comfort in the thought of the ministry, but rather 
 a perpetual misgiving and mistrust from which 
 almost any other profession might have been free- 
 still, brethren, let us say once again to ourselves, 
 My ministry is at least a touchstone of my spirit — 
 a memento, if I will make it so, of wants, defects, 
 
8o 
 
 MINISTERIAL KECREA TIOKS. 
 
 and faults, which it is better for me to take account 
 of ; and there is One above, not watching for my 
 fall, but waiting to bless — not suffering me to sleep 
 (as some) the sleep of death, but awakening me, by 
 my very calling, to newness of life. 
 
 We will add to these examples but one more — 
 the most obvious of all, and the most appropriate. 
 When the Risen Lord says to us, as this morning, 
 Come and cat at my table, has He not a peculiar 
 blessing for His ministering servants ? 
 
 There are parts and portions of our public 
 duty, which bring with them no small trial and 
 hindrance to some of us. The mere fact of 
 ministering — of saying the Prayers, and reading 
 the Lessons, and preaching the Sermons, in which 
 we stand in the sight of men, with other eyes upon 
 us, and with a whole Congregation dependent (in 
 some sort) upon our utterances — is a terrible snare 
 to the self-conscious, and we know that real self- 
 forgetfulness is as much a gift as a duty. It is 
 the struggle of a life, for some of us, to be able at 
 all, under these conditions, to pray with humility 
 and to speak from the heart. 
 
MINISTERIAL RECREATIONS. 
 
 81 
 
 How gracious, then, that one ordinance, which 
 is both in itself singularly simple, and also full of 
 opportunities for absolute silence and entire self- 
 concentration ! In the administration of the 
 Lord's Supper — and most of all, for all but the one 
 celebrant — there is a quietness, there is a stillness, 
 there is a solemnity, favourable to enjoyment : we 
 Ministers can in that one Service be (as much as is 
 right) alone with our Lord — can listen for His 
 voice in the secret of the soul, can commune with 
 Him unnoticed and undistracted, and when He 
 says to us those three little words, Come and 
 dine, we can answer out of a full and resolved 
 heart, Lord, I want Thee more than they all — 
 Lord, satisfy me from Thy fulness, and fit me for a 
 more devout and a more devoted service. 
 
 G 
 
VII. 
 
 notes of greek testament reading. 
 2 Timothy ii. 14 — 26. 
 
 14. Tavra virofilfivriffKe, 5iauaprvp6fievo! ivunriov rod 0eoC fiii 
 XoyofjLax^v, eir' ovSiv xpyvpov, eirl KaTa<TTpo<prj tui> b.kov6vt<i>v. 
 
 ravra] Specially the great maxims of the three 
 verses preceding. 
 
 vTrofxi/ivr}(XKe] Addressed to Timothy, as the 
 ordainer of others. The lesson following is pri- 
 marily for ministers. 
 
 fir} \oyo/ia\juv] How much of \oyo/xa\la is 
 there in our modern controversies ! If we would 
 look within the words, we should find, if not union, 
 yet less of discord, than we imagine. (Illustrate 
 the remark by reference to Sacramental contro- 
 
2 TIMOTHY II. 14—26. 
 
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 versies, on " Regeneration " and the " Real Pre- 
 sence.") 
 
 XP'V'jhov] Always ask yourself in everything 
 (e.g. in preparing a Sermon), Is this useful? If 
 it were ever so much attended to, would it profit ? 
 If it is not for the oikoSo/x//, it must be for the K<n-a- 
 oT/oo^j) of the hearer. 
 
 15- SnovSaffov creavrbv ZLki\xov ■napamy\(Tai T<p 0e<S, ipya.Ti]v aveirai- 
 oXvvtov, opdoTo/iovvTa rbv \6yov ttj j aKydt'ias. 
 
 cnrovSaaov] The tense expresses one act of 
 earnestness, decisive and never receded from. 
 
 TrapaaTiiaai] Properly, to place beside, or in the 
 presence of, for service (Rom. vi. 19) or sacrifice 
 (Rom. xii. 1). We are to place ourselves in God's 
 presence, by a resolute and repeated act of self- 
 devotion, saying, Here am I: Lord, use me. 
 
 Soic(/uov] Approvablc ; one whom God can 
 accept, because He sees in him that spirit which 
 alone can do His work. 
 
 epyurr^v] "A worker," not a drone. Which am If 
 
 bpQoTOfiovvTii] Whether the figure is that of 
 ploughing or of road-making, in either case the 
 point is the straightness. There must be no 
 
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 waving or crooked lines, no unsteadiness in the 
 hand, no ambiguity in the direction. So with our 
 Gospel. We must " cut it straight." Our teaching 
 must be direct, purposelike, straightforward. We 
 must have a clear conception of " the Word of 
 truth," and we must make it plain to our people 
 what it is that they have to believe and to do so 
 as to please God. This rule strikes at the very 
 root of all vanity and self-display in ministering. 
 (These last Epistles are particularly earnest. Heresy 
 was beginning to distort and pervert the Gospel. 
 Its growth and spread was rapid, and St. Paul is 
 most particular in his warnings to his disciple and 
 successor to preserve the true aim and the just 
 proportion and " analogy " of the Faith.) 
 
 16— 18- Tos Se /3ej8rjAous Kevo<pwi/ias irepitaTaao- eVl ir\tiov yap 
 izpoK6^ovffiv aae^das' Kal b \6yos avTwv ws yayypaiva vofifyu 
 efer S>v iarlu 'Tp.evaios Kal *iAt)tos, o'ltivzs 7repl t))v ahfideiav 
 T\vr6xt\<sav, \tyovTes avaaraaiv $87) yeyovivat, Kal avaTpiitovaiv 
 T7]v Tivuiv iriariv- 
 
 In divine things Kavo(j>u)viai are always j3l]3»)Xo(, 
 and soon run into positive aaifiua. 
 
 TrepuaTaao] Give them a wide berth (as Lucian 
 says of the mad dog and the philosopher). 
 
2 TIMOTHY IT. 14—26. 
 
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 r\aTo\r\^av] The figure is that of a number of 
 persons standing "round" the truth, all aiming at 
 it, and all " missing " it. 
 
 Xtyovrec] The particular error is that of spirit- 
 ualizing the resurrection. It is an offshoot of that 
 professed disdain of the body, which branches into 
 asceticism on the one hand, and sensuality on the 
 other. Some said, The body is your enemy — 
 punish, maltreat it. Others said, The body is 
 nothing — it will fall off at death — meanwhile, do 
 what you will with it. The Gospel says, The 
 body is one half of the man — glorify God in it 
 (1 Cor. vi. 20). St. Paul had a poor opinion of 
 asceticism pure and simple as a remedy against 
 license (Col. ii. 23 ; where the -nrpoq means to meet, 
 correct, remedy the 7tAj7<x/uov>/ of the flesh). This same 
 hyper-spiritualism, while it still repeats itself in the 
 form of a mistrust of a real resurrection, has led one 
 body of Christians to disparage and disuse the two 
 Sacraments, as though Christ could not possibly 
 have intended to dignify the body into a handmaid 
 of the soul ; whereas the Sacraments are meant to 
 be both a solemn memento of the unity of the whole 
 
86 NOTES OF GREEK TESTAMENT READING. 
 
 man in his two constituent parts, and also a per- 
 petual witness to the reality of the future resurrection. 
 
 19. 'O //.euroi CT€pebs Be/xzXtos tov &eov %o~Tr)Ktv, e^aip rr)v tj<ppay7Sa 
 TavT-qv 1/ E7f , a) Kvpios tovs ovras avTov, /cat 'AwoirT^Tai avb 
 adin'ias Has b bvofxafav to vvofia Kvpiov. 
 
 6 fxivToi] The place of the article requires the 
 rendering, Hozvbcit the firm foundation of God 
 standcth. The idea is, that God has laid a firm 
 foundation-stone as the basis of His great house 
 or temple, and that this stone is (i) stable and sted- 
 fast (tCTT»7K:6v), not shifting or precarious ; (2) sealed 
 with His seal of authentication, which in this case 
 takes the form of two inscribed mottos (as the 
 twelve dt/x&ioi of the city wall, in Rev. xxi. 14, 
 bear " the names of the twelve Apostles of the 
 Lamb.") In the choice of one (if not both) of 
 the sayings there is a reference to Numbers xvi. 
 " The Lord will show who are His " (LXX. tyvw 
 6 Qtbg rovg ovrag avrov). . . " Depart, I pray you, 
 from the tents of these wicked men." The two 
 together give the two sides of the Christian stand- 
 ing — the secret, and the open. The one is the 
 appropriating love ; the other, the evidencing life. 
 
2 TIMOTHY II. 14—26. 
 
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 The one is the secret safety ; the other is the 
 visible holiness. 
 
 20, 21. 'Ev fj.eyd\rj Si oiki'o ovk edTiv fj.6vov ffKevr) xP vff a Kal apyvpa, 
 oAAa Kal t,{iXiva Ka\ barp&Kiva, Kal a fiev els ti/xt)v a Si els 
 arifx'iav. eai> oiiv ris eKKadapy iavrhv airh tovtuv, earai OKevos 
 els rifxriv, riyiafffievov, evxP r l' T ' T0V T V Scctt^tj;, els irav epyoi 
 ayaBhv ^roijxaafievov. 
 
 The great house contains all varieties of vessels 
 and implements of use and service, from the golden 
 drinking cup to the meanest kitchen platter. We 
 are all inside Christ's house. We are all "vessels." 
 We may be more or less gifted or privileged ; more 
 or less consistent or faithful. But inside Christ's 
 house we all are, who have been brought into it 
 by baptism. We may be rusted, defiled, disused 
 vessels. We read in Scripture of " a vessel wherein 
 is no pleasure ; " but ctk£u») of some sort we all are. 
 No one should be allowed to doubt his place and 
 right as a Christian, made so, not by his free will, 
 but by God's " preventing " act. And St. Paul 
 here teaches that we may pass, if we will, from 
 the meanest, most degraded position in the house 
 to the highest and most honourable. We are 
 Christians, though we may want a great change. 
 
88 NOTES OF GREEK TESTAMENT READING. 
 
 And the capacity of that change lies in our being 
 already inside the house. How shall we reach the 
 " gold " stage ? By realizing our standing, and 
 rising to it. 
 
 EKicaOapri] The tense says, shall have succeeded 
 in thoroughly cleansing himself. 
 
 tovtwv] Those follies and falsehoods, those 
 antichristian doctrines and practices, which have 
 been noticed above. 
 
 si>xpri<TTOv rw Se<TTr6rri] Useful to the owner. A 
 grand ambition ! An ambition open to all — 
 specially to the minister. 
 
 22. Tas 5e vearepinas twiBvpias (pevye- SloiKe Se 8(fcaio<rw7jf , 7tiVt<i> 
 ay6.ir-/]v, elpT)V7)v, /uerot ruv eiriKa^ovjx^voiv rbv Kvpiov e/c KaBapas 
 KapSias. 
 
 What the Christian minister is to avoid, and 
 what to pursue. 
 
 veo)TtpiKag] Those of the ordinary worldly 
 young man. 
 
 <pevye] Be always fleeing from. Lusts and 
 passions are not to be escaped in a moment. They 
 will be always pursuing you. (No aorists here) 
 
 Si'wKf] The figure is that of a perpetual chase. 
 
2 TIMOTHY II. 14—26. 
 
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 These graces are (as it were) in full flight from us : 
 they can never be caught — they must continually 
 be pursued. This is the Christian life-struggle. 
 The man who thinks he has caught these graces 
 is a Pharisee at once. (Observe the frequent use 
 of StwKtiv in Scripture in this connection. Rom. 
 xii. 13, xiv. 19; I Cor. xiv. 1; I Thess. v. 15; 
 1 Tim. vi. 11 ; Heb. xii. 14 ; 1 Pet. Hi. II.) 
 
 sTriKaXovfiiiKjjv] The Christian life is here 
 described as a continual calling in of Christ, or 
 of God through Him, for help, comfort, grace, 
 strength, &c. A simple and sufficient definition. 
 This is the difference between a Christian and 
 another man. 
 
 23-26. Taj Se fiupas Kat iiraiSevrovs (i]rr]aeis irapanov, eiSis 2ti 
 yevvwaiv juaxas - SovXov Se Kvplov ov 5e? fiaxeaSat, oAAa fiirwv 
 elvai upbs TiduTas, SiSaKTixiv, avefyicaKov, iv Trpavr-qTi iraiSevovTa 
 robs auriSiariBeixevovs, irore Sun) atirots o Qebs fierdvoiav els 
 iTr'iyvuxnv a\-r]8e'ias, Kai avav^tumv ex rrjs tov SiafSd'kov TCaylSos, 
 efayprifxeiiot uw' avrov els to eKelvov 6e\-q[ia. 
 
 fiiopaq Kai cnraiSzvTovc;] Silly and uneducated. 
 How many Z,r\r{)aHq of this day deserve no better 
 name ! Questions of dress and posture and posi- 
 tion — an " educated " man should be above them. 
 
90 NOTES OF GREEK TESTAMENT READING. 
 
 But, besides this, St. Paul adds that controversy is 
 itself an evil. 
 
 ou §h fiaxtaOm] Never quarrel. As a rule, 
 keep out of controversy. It has spoilt many good 
 men. It can scarcely be necessary for any of us. 
 Our business is to teach, to educate, to discipline 
 (irai^EvovTa) even opponents amongst our people. 
 And that, iv -pav-^Ti. Not as laying down the 
 law to them {naTaKvpavov-tc; twv KAijpwv), but in 
 the desire to benefit and to help (2 Cor. i. 24 ; 
 1 Pet. v. 3). 
 
 /ii] wort] If haply. From the interrogative use 
 
 Of (171. 
 
 Syn] Not S^>. The optative suggests, And 
 may it be so. 
 
 6 Qtog] Never forget who gives repentance. 
 
 eirfyvtBstv] That on-knowlcdge, that growing 
 and deepening knowledge, which is more of heart 
 than head. 
 
 avain']ip(i)(jtv] (The subjunctive, perhaps, ex- 
 presses the natural and immediate consequence of 
 the gift of repentance.) The word denotes a 
 recovery, not from sleep, but from drunkenness. 
 
2 TIMOTHY II. 14—26. 
 
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 There is a spiritual as well as a literal intoxication. 
 Both are lying heavily upon our people. Repent- 
 ance is the coming back to the senses from the 
 stupefying effects of sin. He came to himself 
 (Luke xv. 17). 
 
 i Zwyprifiivoi] Probably, having been taken alive 
 (in the Gospel net) by him (the §ov\og Kvplov of 
 verse 24) unto (in fulfilment of) His (God's) will. 
 (The interpretation is not certain. The absence 
 of the article favours this rendering ; also the 
 Z,u>ypuv of Luke v. 10 ; and the distinction of 
 persons in uvtov and iicuvov is thus preserved. 
 On the other hand, the SovAoe is some way off ; 
 and in Matt. xxvi. 24 avTuj and Ikuvoq refer to the 
 same person. But the sense given above is the 
 more striking and beautiful.) We must be either 
 in the devil's "snare" or in Christ's "net": it is 
 the "will " of God that we should be in the latter. 
 In all our efforts, therefore, to induce men to in- 
 clude themselves in the Gospel net, we know that 
 we have on our side that Will which moves the 
 universe. 
 
VIII. 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS PARISH. 
 
 THE word " Parish," originally meaning " neigh- 
 bourhood," has acquired for us a more technical 
 signification. But we must not lose the first idea. 
 Neighbourhood lies at the root of the word still — 
 and it is very unfortunate when either the unwieldy 
 size of the district assigned to one Clergyman 
 falsifies the name, or the Clergyman himself forgets 
 that it is as the neighbour of his people — the equal, 
 the friendly, the Christian, neighbour — that he 
 must seek to realize and (in the true way) to 
 magnify his office — -not by obliterating, but by em- 
 phasizing, that brotherhood with his people which 
 is the foundation of all ministry and of all priest- 
 hood. 
 
 Still there is a meaning for us here in England 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS PARISH. 
 
 93 
 
 in the word " Parish," which both appropriates and 
 consecrates the appellation. We can speak with 
 propriety of " his Parish," " our Parish," " my 
 Parish," with reference to the ministerial work and 
 charge. We owe this, remember, not to the fact 
 of being Ministers of the Church as such, but to the 
 fact of being Ministers of the Church of England as 
 by law established. If unhappily the present cry for 
 Disestablishment should gain its desired object, 
 there would be an end of the Parish, though there 
 would not be an end of the Ministry. We should 
 thenceforth be no more than persons located here 
 or there to offer our services to such inhabitants of 
 the district as might choose to call us in — we 
 should have lost the right to go here and there as 
 the responsible, legally constituted, spiritual guide 
 and friend, the one man charged with a definite 
 oversight, an undisputed stewardship, in a particular 
 town or village, of which the boundaries are marked 
 and the acres numbered. 
 
 I say this, in the hope of checking, so far as my 
 voice may be heard, that somewhat easy and 
 indifferent talk of some Clergymen, which repre- 
 
94 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN W HIS PARISH. 
 
 sents the maintenance of the " Establishment " as a 
 matter of small importance to the position of the 
 Clergy and to the influence of Religion. If Dis- 
 establishment comes, it must be borne, like other 
 calamities — and the Lo, I am with you alway, 
 will not be destroyed by it : but we can scarcely 
 estimate the difference that it would make to the 
 Ministers of our Communion, to be no longer the 
 constituted Pastors and Teachers of a certain 
 definitely assigned population ; to have to feel 
 ourselves the optional, the almost officious, offerers 
 of spiritual services which twenty other denomina- 
 tions have an equal licence to volunteer, instead 
 of being charged with a solemn manifest duty 
 towards these particular hundreds or thousands of 
 living souls. 
 
 The remark with which I have opened my 
 subject, leads me to place first in order, though not 
 as foremost in importance, a question which has 
 perplexed many, and which has, for all, a certain 
 kind of difficulty — how the Clergyman ought to 
 conduct himself towards members and Ministers 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS PARISH. 95 
 
 of Dissenting or Nonconforming bodies in the 
 Parish committed to his charge. There are two 
 modes of treatment which must be earnestly 
 guarded against. The one is the contemptuous 
 or condemnatory — the other is the complaisant 
 or complimentary. 
 
 Some young men give themselves the airs 
 of an undoubted and undoubting authority, as 
 towards a race of inferiors and aliens, of in- 
 truders and upstarts, who have brought schism 
 into Christ's body and are serving the altar of 
 God with unhallowed fire. They make it a duty 
 and a principle to give no quarter in the war with 
 Dissenters. With the Minister of a Dissenting 
 Chapel they will exchange no courtesies — they 
 will meet him neither in public nor in private 
 — they will make it a sacred duty to deny to him, 
 living and dead, on letter and tombstone, the 
 empty title which has no legal validity for any one, 
 and which has become as much a matter of 
 courtesy as " Mr." or " Esquire." With the 
 members of his Congregation they will enter upon 
 no neutral ground — they will neither speak of the 
 
9 6 
 
 THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS PARISH. 
 
 Gospel nor administer the Sacrament — until they 
 have gone into the whole question of Episcopacy 
 and Unity, and insisted upon an immediate and 
 final rupture with a Communion in which three 
 or five generations of the family may have found 
 happiness in life and repose in death. In this way 
 the breach of centuries is widened and deepened ; 
 and that which might have been an external 
 difference, touching neither piety nor charity, may 
 be made, by the arrogance and intolerance of one 
 hot-headed youth, a real gaping festering wound in 
 the living body of Christ. 
 
 On the other hand, there ■ is sometimes a dis- 
 position to make light of differences, which is 
 wrong because it is untruthful. A Clergyman 
 is not bound, for the sake of peace, to say to 
 a Dissenting Minister, "The Church is nothing, 
 and Dissent is nothing — let us openly fraternize, let 
 us exchange Pulpits, let us annihilate Creeds and 
 Articles — are we not of one mind and of one 
 speech ? " It is surprising that either side should 
 be satisfied with such concord. It destroys the 
 very " reason of existence " alike of Church and 
 
THE CLERGYMAN IN HIS PARISH. 
 
 97 
 
 of Dissent. If there is so absolutely nothing 
 between us, that we can exchange Pulpits — in 
 other words, that we can freely teach and preach 
 in each other's Congregations — how is it that 
 together we cannot worship, that together we 
 cannot communicate ? If there is difference enough 
 to justify your separation from what you admit 
 to have been the Church of your fathers, surely 
 there is enough to keep you from " climbing up " 
 from behind into her Teacher's Chair, into her 
 Pastor's Pulpit. 
 
 " The Clergyman in his Parish " must find a 
 mean between these extremes. In reference to 
 the Ministers of Dissenting Communities, he will 
 maintain a serious and a courteous neutrality. 
 He will never flatter, and he will never attack. 
 He will not make as though nothing were involved 
 in questions of Church goverment and Church 
 ritual — but neither will he obtrude his opinion upon 
 those whose very profession shows that they differ. 
 He will be glad when on some neutral ground he 
 can act with the other. Such common ground is 
 Christian philanthropy. The promotion of the 
 
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 social and material good of his people, the 
 management of Infirmaries, of local charities, of 
 special efforts in relief of distress, will furnish 
 abundant opportunities of cordial and mutually 
 beneficial co-operation. I venture to include among 
 these agencies of a common Christianity the 
 advocacy of the Bible Society. Its principle is, 
 the circulation of Bibles without note or comment : 
 consequently, they who would differ seriously in 
 the interpretation of the Bible can join hand in 
 hand in the distribution of it unopened. In Town 
 Parishes there will be also Associations of a 
 perfectly general kind for giving information on 
 secular or semi-secular subjects to the young. 
 It is well that the Parish Priest should neither 
 resign such influences into Nonconformist hands, 
 nor yet endeavour to monopolize them in his own. 
 The principle once laid down — that Dissent is a fact 
 — a fact which we can neither ignore nor alter ; a fact 
 for which the faults of the Church in past days 
 (dare we say, never and nowhere in the present?) are 
 in large part accountable ; but a fact of which we 
 may either aggravate or mitigate the evil, according 
 
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 as we bring, or fail to bring, to bear upon it, in our 
 own Parishes, a spirit of modesty and a spirit of 
 charity — the details of its application will settle 
 themselves, and the fruit of righteousness will be 
 sown in peace for them that make peace. 
 
 With reference to private Dissenters the rule is 
 clearer still and easier of application. We are 
 Ministers (at present) of a Parish, not of a Congre- 
 gation. Therefore none must lie, if we can help it, 
 outside the pale of our sympathy and our service. 
 We must never label or stigmatize our people as 
 being anything else but Churchmen. The cases 
 are comparatively rare, in which any overt act has 
 made this man or that woman a Dissenter. So 
 ignorant are our people generally about such ques- 
 tions — so incapable of giving a reason why they are 
 either this or that — so absolutely uninformed as to 
 the distinguishing or conflicting tenets of Episcopa- 
 lians, Baptists, Independents, or Wesleyans — that 
 it is really hard and cruel to treat them as if they 
 were deliberate seceders from what we hold to be 
 the more excellent way. Let us treat them as if 
 they were ours till they bid us begone ; let us visit 
 
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 them in their sickness, their sorrow, their bereave- 
 ment ; and, doing so, let us speak to them 
 of Christ and the soul, not of Episcopacy and not 
 of Dissent ; let us give them, if they will have it, 
 the Holy Communion, and leave all minor matters 
 (are they not minor matters ?) till that day when, 
 human language and human thought being cleared 
 at last of their ambiguities and of their enigmas, 
 they and we shall " read the mystery right, in the 
 clear sunshine of His smile." 
 
 But now we must turn to matters more interest- 
 ing, though I can scarcely say more " concerning " 
 to many of us. 
 
 We have done with the Clergyman as Church- 
 man : let us view him next as Pastor. There are 
 many aspects of his Pastoral life which could not 
 be treated for lack of time. And there are some 
 aspects of it which will be mentioned this evening. 
 At present, I will content myself with a very few 
 practical hints. 
 
 Our Saviour Himself places first, in this matter, 
 the care of the young. Feed my lambs. There is 
 
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 no fear of this part of our duty being overlooked in 
 this day. But your experience will tally with mine 
 as to the preeminent importance of this branch 
 of our labour. It is sometimes almost wrong, the 
 tone in which a disappointed pastor will say to you, 
 " I have no hope of the elder — my hope lies in the 
 young." O, there is a Gospel — might we but find 
 it — for the middle-aged, even for the old ! But the 
 other is the brighter and the more hopeful. The 
 School — the Catechizing — the Confirmation Class 
 — the young Communicants, held together by sedu- 
 lous care, by individual seeking and summoning, 
 month by month, so long as there are ten, so long 
 as there is one, to respond — in these things lies our 
 most interesting, our most remunerative toil. And 
 then you will bear in mind how wide are the rami- 
 fications of this influence. Never is the Pastor so 
 welcome in the cottage home, as when he carries to 
 the mother tidings of her son — good tidings often — 
 why must we be seen only when we must reprove ? 
 Never is the visit so intelligible, so self-explaining, 
 as when it has a definite thing to be said, a definite 
 request to be made, concerning one whose relation- 
 
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 ship is thus recognized, and whose welfare is thus 
 sought. Xor is this all. From one home to another 
 there is but a step — the door of one home opens (I 
 might almost say in figure) into another — and the 
 report of the Pastor's care and the Pastor's kind- 
 ness towards this child and this parent, is his sure 
 passport to the acceptance and to the confidence 
 and to the gratitude of that. 
 
 Several interesting questions branch out of this. 
 
 Much may be done, in reference to the School, 
 by influencing the managers, by teaching the 
 teachers. A good understanding with the Master 
 — the loan of books to a man intelligent, perhaps, 
 but not largely read, and possessing few books 
 of his own — the cultivation of sympathy with 
 one whose position leaves him stranded between a 
 class which he is above and a class which he stands 
 below — a sincere and mutually respectful tone of 
 brotherly intercourse — is a matter of great import- 
 ance in its reaction upon the School. I venture to 
 urge very strongly a high estimate of the value, and 
 in these days the growing value, of the Sunday 
 School. It is the powerful supplement of — I will 
 
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 not quite say the effectual substitute for — the 
 Ministerial work of Catechizing. Under another 
 name, it may serve much of the same purpose, in 
 Parishes where the young are so numerous as to 
 make their collection and instruction in Church 
 difficult, unsatisfactory, or even disorderly. The 
 Sunday School must do much of this work — 
 though I earnestly repeat it, not all. The public 
 Catechizing, especially in Village Churches, has 
 a most important office not only towards the 
 young. Many parents and friends of the young 
 can gain almost more by learning thus with and 
 beside their children than (with a very imperfect 
 education) they can gain from Sermons. For the 
 younger and youngest children the Sunday School 
 will be the necessary expedient. And I will not 
 lose the opportunity of impressing strongly upon 
 you the importance of instructing and influencing 
 the voluntary and other School teachers by means 
 of regular, careful, and minute preparation of the 
 Sunday lesson with them in the week preceding. 
 
 There are two other points which I must place 
 by themselves. 
 
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 Is it well to encourage, what is finding favour 
 with many excellent men, the formation of what 
 are called Guilds or Fraternities for our young 
 Communicants? I should wish to elicit suggestions 
 from your own experience upon this subject. I feel, 
 for my own part, a repugnance (but it may be as a 
 matter of taste — it may be for want of knowledge) 
 to the addition of any thing, any pledge, any com- 
 bination, to that of simple Communion, which seems 
 to me to have in it everything that is true and 
 wholesome and satisfying, and nothing that is either 
 fanciful, or exclusive, or of man's device. If there 
 must be anything else, at least let it be very simple, 
 very Churchlike, very reminiscent of Christ's own 
 Communion and nothing besides.* 
 
 Once more — what ought we to aim at in our 
 
 * In the discussion which followed, the prevalent feeling seemed 
 to be, (i) that Associations of some kind were desirable for the 
 young, as a help to consistency of life, and as a protection against 
 opposition and ridicule ; (2) that the name of such an Association 
 should be a simple and unaffected one ; (3) that the Rules should be 
 few and plain, and should take the form rather of Recommendations ; 
 (4) that some sort of special work, however small or humble, should 
 be found for each member ; (5) that the Association should grow 
 naturally out of a School or Confirmation Class, and with as little as 
 possible of publicity or parade. 
 
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 dealing with the young ? Some, we know, would 
 stimulate into instant action and instant expres- 
 sion all the fulness of the saint's life. They count 
 nothing done, till the child, till the boy, till the 
 youth, avows himself converted, calls Jesus his 
 own, sets out afresh, quite consciously, quite by 
 himself or in company only with the like-minded, 
 upon a course full of profession, straight for heaven. 
 I would draw out your experiences upon this point 
 also — only saying, for myself, that we must well 
 remember that we are dealing with a whole man 
 and with a whole life — we must think (to use plain 
 language) what will wear best, what will last longest, 
 what would be the true thing and the wholesome 
 thing for every one — we are not to rear a few 
 exotics — we have got to train, and to educate, and 
 to discipline, and to set in the way for this world 
 and for that — we must look to the end — we must 
 sow for eternity — we must not knowingly cultivate 
 that sort of life which would want perpetual 
 watching, perpetual coddling, to keep it going and 
 to bring it safe home. 
 
 Having said these few words, I Wait your 
 comments. 
 
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 And now I will go on to other exercises of the 
 Pastorship. 
 
 Let us say a word upon Visiting. Some things 
 are so obvious that it would be a mistake to repeat 
 them. 
 
 The immense importance of visiting. The 
 absolute uselessness of a Pastor who does not visit. 
 The self-confessed impotence of a Pastor who 
 excuses himself by inability — in other words, by 
 indisposition. The extraordinary blessing which 
 attends the faithful visitor. The wonderful changes 
 which now and then reward and encourage him. 
 The barrenness of that Pulpit which is the place of 
 display for the student, for the scholar, for the non- 
 visitor. The enormous fertility of that preaching 
 which comes ever fresh and fresh from commerce 
 with struggling dying men. 
 
 But to-day it is in my heart to assume all this, 
 and rather to warn you against excess, against 
 feverishness, against exhaustion, in this good work. 
 Each sick-bed, each death-bed, is like the wilder- 
 ness in which Christ did battle with wild beasts 
 and evil spirits. It is a tremendous undertaking to 
 
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 approach that chamber. Nothing which is not 
 true, nothing which is not real, nothing which is 
 not heart-deep, can breathe in that atmosphere. It 
 is idle to take out your sick-list, and say, " I will 
 do so many visits this afternoon." I scarcely 
 believe that any young man's soul can do more 
 than two or three such visits in one day. We ought 
 to prepare ourselves anxiously for each one. We 
 ought to recall that which passed there yesterday. 
 Each separate visit ought to leave its mark. Each 
 separate visit demands much — much more than a 
 good intention, a sincere pity, or a commonplace 
 faith. God ought to be with us in it; and that He 
 may be so, He must be sought. 
 
 We should point our Sermons this way. When 
 we go up the Pulpit steps, we should say to our- 
 selves, Some day I shall be ministering to these 
 souls separately — ministering in their extremity. 
 This Sermon ought to be addressed to dying men 
 — separately dying men. It ought to have in it 
 the pabulum of a hundred lives, the viaticum of a 
 hundred deaths. What did I learn yesterday 
 beside that death-bed, as to things then precious 
 
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 and vile ? What did I find to be the vital thing, 
 because the thing that could be died upon ? Away 
 with the mere rubbish and refuse, which are neither 
 hither nor thither to souls ! 
 
 There is another side to our visiting. Our 
 Ordination Service speaks of the whole as well as 
 the sick. In small Parishes it is possible — and if 
 possible, desirable — to tend the entire flock by 
 separate shepherding. Some men have made it a 
 duty to visit each house in their Parish once, twice, 
 or thrice in the year. This is well, if it can be, and 
 if it be well done. But is a severe strain upon the 
 spiritual life. There may be something even in the 
 common call — something conducive to a friendly 
 hearing, to a favourable construction, to a willing 
 acceptance, of the things said in the Pulpit. But 
 there is a danger too — I am not striking the 
 balance — of a general softening and smoothing and 
 palliating of the decisive alternatives of the Gospel ; 
 of a suggestion that perhaps the words are 
 stronger than the meaning ; of an implied under- 
 standing that the severities of the Pulpit are meant 
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 sinners — not for the respectable householders, not 
 for the " society " of the place. So that we come 
 back to the question, and it is the real one, Can 
 we bear this close contact, this face-to-face inspec- 
 tion, this showing ourselves as we are — or should 
 we do better to confine ourselves to the Pulpit and 
 the sick-room, where at least the words are true, 
 and where the life and the spirit are not put to the 
 test of consistency and of " through and through ? " 
 We ought to be able so to visit as to carry the 
 pastoral mind and soul with us. We ought — but 
 are we ? Some Clergymen would no doubt do 
 more real work, in the Study, and by the sick-bed, 
 than they can do by a perpetual round of calling, 
 which is all that they can make of this Visitation of 
 the Whole. 
 
 One thing I earnestly press — and it is, the most 
 diligent attention to Providential openings. The 
 greatest harm is done— mischief which no preach- 
 ing can undo — by a neglect of Parishioners suffer- 
 ing under sickness, anxiety, or bereavement. Our 
 flocks are sensitive on this point, quite to un- 
 reasonableness : they remember against us, to hoar 
 
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 hairs and dying days, a little inattention, however 
 involuntary, in some season of trouble — and they 
 draw inferences from it, quite disproportionate, 
 quite unjust, as to the hollo wness of many pro- 
 fessions and the hypocrisy of many Sermons. 
 
 It follows naturally, from the last topic, to 
 speak to you of the Clergyman as a neighbour. I 
 like that thought of the " Parish " as a napoiida, a 
 neighbourhood, a society of persons dwelling by the 
 side of each other and of the Clergyman. There 
 must be duties growing out of that dwelling beside. 
 Each home in that locality is something to every 
 other. Most of all is it something to the central 
 home— to the Clergyman's house — which is set there 
 for the very purpose of bringing Christ into that 
 neighbourhood ; Christ, not only as the Revealer 
 of a life to come, but also as the Emmanuel, the 
 God with us, of the life that is now. Surely that 
 home ought not to be a mere sign or wonder, a 
 mere lighthouse or beacon, warning us of invisible 
 rocks and shoals, or mementoing to us a judgment 
 and wrath to come : it ought to be that which 
 
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 Christ Himself was to men in the home and in the 
 workshop of Nazareth, in the marriage-feast at 
 Cana, and in the blessed refuge of the brother and 
 sisters at Bethany — a specimen of a life lived in 
 the world yet above it — of a life bright with im- 
 mortality, and shedding its radiance upon other 
 homes and other lives around. 
 
 It is a question often asked, and never to be 
 hastily, or perhaps conclusively, answered, How 
 much ought a Clergyman to enter into society ? 
 There is one answer which is easily given, and 
 which satisfies the spiritual haste and indolence 
 and selfishness of many, Refrain ! And there is 
 something in the experience of all persons who 
 would lead a godly life, which responds to that 
 counsel. Who has not come away from a large 
 and promiscuous gathering, from a dinner or an 
 evening party, with a deep consciousness that it 
 has been time wasted, or worse ? How natural to 
 draw the inference, For me at least this is an un- 
 profitable thing ! Others, better men than I, more 
 devoted, more consistent, may do this thing safely 
 or even with advantage — for me it is perilous, it is 
 
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 injurious ! Yet let us reflect, for a moment, what 
 this says. It says that our religion will not bear 
 touching or handling — that it can live and breathe 
 only in solitude — that for us life is not redeemed, 
 only a way is made out of it into another. It says, 
 too, that Christian men and women — for Christian 
 we must call them, seeing that they are baptized and 
 not excommunicate ; seeing that they are worship- 
 pers and communicants, living moral lives and 
 cultivating (for what we know) pious thoughts — 
 that these, I say, must be let alone, must be thrown 
 aside, as to a large part of their being, by those 
 who were sent into the world, like them, to be its 
 salt and its light, and who choose, on the contrary, 
 just to keep themselves safe, and to do nothing 
 whatever to purify and to regenerate the neigh- 
 bourhood to which God has commissioned them. 
 
 I know — and what was said before, as to the 
 visiting of the whole, will show that I recognize it 
 as possible — that there are men who find them- 
 selves so useless, so unprofitable, so irresistibly light 
 and frivolous, in society, that they must give up 
 the battle as lost, and redeem for other purposes, 
 
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 of study or devotion, the hours which they cannot 
 turn to account in company. Only they must not 
 lay down the law on this matter to their brethren. 
 It is the experience of many who have not seen 
 their way to this isolation, that, when they have 
 gone into society with an earnest prayer for bless- 
 ing, they have found, ere the evening closed, some 
 opportunity, which otherwise would have had no 
 existence, for giving and receiving good — it may 
 be, in the privacy which so often waits upon 
 publicity, the unheard discourse with a casual 
 neighbour, whose soul is suddenly opened to one 
 who bears in his face the attribute of " helper " — 
 they have found reason, thus or otherwise, to rejoice 
 that they had not wrapped themselves in the 
 unsociable mantle of a religion all for itself — 
 they have felt that henceforth they must pray 
 more, and trust more, and expect more, and then 
 God will more largely bless — they will reproach 
 themselves, not others, if they are often frustrated 
 and disappointed in such intercourse — they will 
 feel, nevertheless, that neighbourhood is relationship, 
 and that they have no right to call common or 
 
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 irreligious that interchange of kindliness which 
 God has cleansed. 
 
 The Parish is a neighbourhood, and the Minister 
 is a neighbour. It is his business, it is his duty, 
 not to forsake, even in this sense, the assembling 
 of men together. He must raise, he must not 
 lower — he must raise, he must not despair of — 
 the tone of his equals and his fellows in the 
 gatherings of this life. If he cannot — if for his 
 soul's sake he dare not — go into society, let him 
 humble, not pride, himself on this behalf; let him 
 confess himself unspiritual and earthly, and seclude 
 himself (if it must be so) in dust and ashes ! 
 
 We have barely space for one topic more — the 
 Clergyman in his Parish as an example. 
 
 It is an old and a threadbare subject — all our 
 consciences are alive to it. If I dare to press it 
 upon you to-day, it is not because I have ought 
 new to say upon it, but because of its urgent, its 
 incomparable importance. Some of us are still 
 young in the Ministerial Office : they scarcely know, 
 as yet, how common it will have become to them in 
 
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 ten years or twenty — how natural it is to all of us, 
 when we have walked safely for a while, to begin 
 to walk confidently — how countless, and how 
 unsuspected, are the inlets of danger, to the man 
 whose watch is intermittent — how many influences, 
 at first amiable or useful, reveal themselves, in the 
 long run, in frightful mischief — how gradually, yet 
 how fatally, a little imprudence, a passing indulgence, 
 a silly impulse, may develope itself, in a Clergyman, 
 into a scandal, a misery, a sin — may cost him his 
 position, his Ministry, his character, his soul. // 
 shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth may 
 be the description of the consequences to a Con- 
 gregation, to a Parish, to a Church, of one unguarded 
 moment, one hasty step, one single self-forgetting, 
 of the man whom Christ had commissioned to lead 
 his little army against the ranks of sin and the 
 devil. 
 
 These things come not by accident. It were 
 treason to Christ and the Gospel to say so. The 
 man who is watching and praying always — in him 
 Satan finds nothing. He may " come," as He 
 " came " to Jesus the night of His Passion — but 
 
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 there is present One stronger than the strong one 
 — and the assault fails and is beaten. The fear is 
 for one of us who may have entered this service 
 with a half heart ; who may have sought in it 
 occupation, interest, even usefulness, without giving 
 himself first, without doing battle with himself 
 first, without first " proving " the armour which 
 he is to bear against the foe. The risk is for 
 one of us, who may have found himself early 
 strong, early successful, early victorious — may have 
 seen the spirits subject to him, may have played 
 upon hearts as upon an instrument, may have kept 
 the vineyards of others, but neglected, forgot, dis- 
 dained, to keep his own. The risk is for one of 
 us, who may have suffered one of the myriad darts 
 of modern unbelief to pierce his shield, without 
 troubling himself to bring to issue, on the instant, 
 the question of questions, Hath God spoken ? 
 hath God in these last days spoken to us in His 
 Son ? 
 
 The fear, the risk, the peril, is for these — yet 
 God leaves us not without warning, without 
 promise, without hope. We are not deserted, not 
 
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 abandoned, in our warfare. It is not too late, 
 whatsoever we be, to come back, humbly and 
 earnestly, to the Almighty and All-merciful, 
 saying to Him, day by day, and believing that we 
 shall receive — 
 
 Keep me, 0 Lord, I beseech Thee, with Thy 
 perpetual mercy : and because the frailty of man 
 without Thee cannot but fall, keep me ever by Thy 
 help from all tilings hurtful, and lead me to all 
 things profitable to my salvation, through Jesus 
 Christ our Lord. 
 
IX. 
 
 the pastoral office.* 
 
 Isaiah xl. ii. 
 
 He shall feed His flock like a shepherd. 
 
 We are met together this week to remind 
 ourselves of the great work to which we are 
 pledged as ordained men, and to help and 
 encourage and even counsel one another in the 
 doing of it. To-night we have asked the sympathy 
 and the prayers for us of a wider circle — of a Parish 
 in which one of us ministers — of a Congregation 
 which is a sample and specimen to us of the 
 Universal Church of Christ. It is difficult to 
 imagine a more united Congregation. A large 
 
 * Preached in St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury, on Friday even- 
 ing, October i, 1875. 
 
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 number of us are knit into one, not only by- 
 being, as all are, creatures and sinners, fallen and 
 redeemed, baptized and confirmed, members of the 
 Church, partakers of the Spirit, hastening, through 
 a brief day of grace, towards an evening of judg- 
 ment and immortality — but also on the more 
 intimate footing still, of a like charge and a like 
 office — of the same special duties, difficulties, 
 dangers and encouragements — of a life given to 
 one work, and of one human weakness needing 
 to be enabled out of one Divine strength. 
 
 And for the rest — for those who hold not this 
 
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 office — yet are they not one with us, substantially, 
 even here, even in this difference ? What is the 
 flock without the Pastor ? What shall become of 
 our very Christianity, if it be not nourished and 
 cherished by its ordinance of worship, its ministry 
 of preaching, and its Sacrament of Communion ? 
 
 Let us speak, then, to-night, and hear, as being 
 all spoken to — not least the speaker ; as being all 
 concerned and interested in the matter spoken of ; 
 as being all, Ministers and People alike, ojie man 
 in Christ Jesus. 
 
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 The Ministry has many provinces and many 
 aspects : Christ would have it so. But there is one 
 title which seems most suitable for it to-day, and 
 to that I will confine myself. St. Paul places it 
 last in his enumeration of Christ's Pentecostal gifts 
 to the Church — for it stands naturally last in order 
 of time as well as of dignity. There must be 
 " Apostles " to lay the foundation, and " Prophets " 
 to utter the inspiration, and " Evangelists " to carry 
 Christ where He is not yet named, before there can 
 be "Pastors and Teachers" to tend the flock already 
 portioned out for shepherding. 
 
 This ministry, as it is the lowest in rank and 
 the latest in institution, is also, when once estab- 
 lished, the largest in its numbers, and the most 
 indispensable in its functions. Whatever else the 
 Church of a particular age or a particular country 
 may lack without being unchurched, it cannot live 
 without this — a local Pastorate to apply and to 
 live the Gospel. 
 
 The Pastoral Office. Very old, very ordinary, is 
 the title. But, while Apostles, and Prophets, and 
 Evangelists too, however noble or however sacred 
 
THE PASTORAL OFFICE. 
 
 121 
 
 their ministry, have that ministry defined for them 
 only by its distinctive work, the Pastor, the Shep- 
 herd, of the Church of God below, has a Divine 
 ideal, and a Divine Exemplar. The Old Testa- 
 ment has its Shepherd, and the New Testament 
 has its Shepherd, and each of them is a 
 Person of the Triune Godhead. The 23rd Psalm, 
 and the 10th chapter of St. John, set before us 
 the Pastoral Office of the Father and of the Son. 
 And either Testament exemplifies this Divine 
 Ministry in a human. The 34th chapter of 
 Ezekiel tells of shepherds of Israel who ought 
 to feed the flocks but who feed tJiemselves in 
 the stead of them. And the 20th chapter of 
 the Acts, and the 5th chapter of the first Epistle 
 of St. Peter, authorize the transfer of the same term 
 to Presbyters of the local Congregations. From 
 Miletus Paul sent to Ephesus, and called the pres- 
 byters of the Church ; and when they were come, he 
 said to them, Take heed unto yourselves, and to 
 all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made 
 you, overseers {bishops), to feed (shepherd) the Church of 
 God, which He purchased with His own blood. . . . 
 
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 The presbyters which are among you I exhort, who am 
 your fellow-presbyter. Feed {shepherd) the flock of 
 God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof 
 {acting as its bishops) ; and when the chief Shepherd 
 shall appear, ye shall receive the amaranthine wreath 
 of glory. 
 
 Having this authority, my brethren, for the 
 application to our office, of the name and of the 
 thing, I will reverently select from the Psalm and 
 from the Gospel, a few of those particulars of the 
 Pastoral Office which may seem to be at once the 
 most distinctive and the most practical. You will 
 understand that it can be only in specimen that I 
 deal with so large a subject. 
 
 I. The first point emphasized by our Lord 
 Himself, and by Him expressly applied to the 
 human transcript, is that of the orderly entrance. 
 The pastor must enter by the door. 
 
 In this requirement we all see two parts. 
 
 (i) Christ is the Door, and therefore the human 
 Pastor must enter through Him. 
 
 Dear brethren ! we feel that there is a spiritual 
 entering upon our work, which no regularity and 
 
THE PASTORAL OFFICE. 
 
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 no propriety of admission can supersede or replace. 
 The man must enter through Christ, before the 
 Minister can enter through the Church. There 
 must be a devotion before there can be a dedication. 
 The soul must come to Christ before the life can 
 minister to Christ. 
 
 The thought is solemn. It may be reproving to 
 some of us. No doubt, this is the cause of many 
 languid, indolent, ineffective ministries. This 
 accounts for that lethargy, that absence of mind, 
 which we complain of in our public readings of 
 prayer and Scripture. This accounts for that dul- 
 ness and deadness, for that self and self-conscious- 
 ness, for that vanity and touchiness and thirst for 
 applause, which attends us like a shadow along the 
 aisle and within the rails, and which whispers in 
 our ear, in Pulpit and Study, as though we our- 
 selves were some great one, or as though it 
 mattered anything, to preacher or hearer, whether 
 we were great or little. All this betokens a poor 
 and slight hold upon Him who is at once our 
 subject and our object, our " reason of existence " 
 and our realized end. 
 
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 THE PASTORAL OFFICE. 
 
 It may be that some hearts respond to this 
 charge. Entered not by the door — climbed up some 
 other way — thought that a general good intention, 
 thought that a moral conscientious life, thought 
 that kindliness of heart, liberality of hand, amia- 
 bility of spirit and temper, might do as well. Let 
 me venture to remind such persons, for their en- 
 couragement as well as for their reproof, how many 
 Clergymen in all times, having not begun well 
 (in this respect) have yet ended well ; have been led 
 on from morality to faith; have laid afresh the very 
 foundations, far on (it may be) in their ministry — 
 learning, after long teaching, what those words 
 mean, the unsearchable riches of Christ, and 
 being not too proud to bend the stiff neck, of 
 self-love, of long habit, and of good repute, to the 
 yoke of a childlike docility, and (if need be) a new 
 idea of the Gospel. 
 
 (2) The orderly entrance has another part. 
 The first question of our Ordination Service has 
 respect to the inward call : the second turns to the 
 outward — the " due order " of the commission 
 received through man. And here, brethren, it 
 
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 would be unprofitable for us to discuss the ques- 
 tion, what is the form of Ordination most orderly 
 and most Ecclesiastical. I presuppose your opinion 
 upon this topic. What I urge is, the necessity 
 of each person who seeks Ordination being fully- 
 persuaded on this point in his own mind. I 
 cannot conceive a more wretched feeling, in the 
 soul of a Christian Minister, than that which 
 should doubt the validity of his own commission. 
 What am I, and what is my father s house — 
 what am I, in the retrospect of childhood, youth, 
 and manhood — what am I, in the consciousness of 
 this moment, as to my moral stability or my 
 spiritual strength — that I should dare to stand in 
 this Pulpit, and give advice, as of authority, to 
 these men and women who are, all of them, in 
 the sight of God if not of man, my equals in 
 worth, my superiors at least in this — their not 
 setting themselves up to teach ? 
 
 How dreadful, if we cannot think with confidence 
 of our commission! I anrnot self-sent. The Church, 
 of which Christ is the Head — the Church, in which 
 the Spirit dwells — the Church, to which the 
 
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 Ascended Lord gave certain spiritual gifts, 
 amongst them that of Pastors and Teachers, 
 ordained, commissioned, sent me. Not to pretend 
 myself better than these others — rather, to feel 
 myself in all reality last and least ; but, to exercise 
 a certain office towards them, as the reader, and 
 the interpreter, and the preacher, of a word not 
 mine but God's — as one of the regular pastors and 
 teachers, whatever my personal insufficiency, of 
 the Church of which Christ is the Head, and of 
 which all we, ministers and people, are alike and 
 equally members. 
 
 2. Next to the orderly entrance, personal and 
 official, stands the individual self-devotion. 
 
 The good Shepherd givcth Ids life for the sheep. 
 
 The sacrifice of Propitiation is ended ; not so 
 the sacrifice of the self-dedication. 
 
 There is no good work done upon earth, in any 
 department, without sacrifice. 
 
 But in our work it is all in all. 
 
 (i) The evasion of sacrifice is easy. A fair 
 show may be made without sacrifice. We can 
 all of us frame to ourselves the idea of a Clerical 
 
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 life — decorous, energetic, self-complacent, even 
 conspicuous — which yet, if you examine it, con- 
 sists, from beginning to end, in such efforts and 
 such occupations as are gratifying to flesh and 
 blood, conducive to estimation and power and 
 self-display ; while the routine, the monotony, the 
 drudgery, of service — that which Christ calls the 
 shepherding, the bishopric, of souls — is left alto- 
 gether to the deputy, to the subaltern, to the 
 subordinate. 
 
 We sometimes tremble, on this account, for the 
 very activity of the Church of this generation. So 
 much does it run to talk, so much to management, 
 so much to the organization of the Church, so little 
 to the oversight of the Congregation, that it seems 
 almost to merge the Pastor in the Bishop — nay, 
 in that other people's bishop (aWoTpionriaKOTrog), 
 that busybody in other men's matters, for whom 
 St. Peter had to coin a word — and to forfeit, in the 
 same degree, for the Church of England, that which 
 ought to be, and which has been, the backbone of 
 her strength — a vigorous, an independent, a home- 
 loving and Parish-loving Presbytery. 
 
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 The good Shepherd, Divine and human, giveth 
 his life for the sheep. His is not a distant or 
 general, it is a minute and a personal attention. 
 He lives for his own flock. Not for the Church as 
 a whole — that is His Master's charge. Not even 
 for the Church of his country — that is the affair, 
 of Synods and Bishops. The individual Pastor 
 is devoted to the particular portion and allotment 
 (icXfjpoc) which is consigned to him. No young, 
 inexperienced, half-informed novice can possibly 
 relieve him of this charge. The very fact that it is 
 abandoned to him takes away the strength that he 
 might have had for it. To be the loved and trusted 
 colleague, younger in years, in all else recognized as 
 co-ordinate, is one thing : a splendid training for a 
 young Minister— a grand opportunity, full of hope, 
 full of promise. But to have every work, except 
 that of preaching, left to him — to be committed, 
 single-handed, to the oversight and guidance of 
 souls, to the visitation of sick and whole, to the 
 charge of Schools, to the preparation for Confirma^ 
 tion, to the baptizing and the marrying and the 
 burying of the people, as though these matters 
 
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 were either so easy that they were things of course, 
 or so insignificant as to be beneath the notice of an 
 elderly, a learned, or a dignified man — this is to 
 take all the heart and all the spirit out of the 
 junior, and to make him less than half the man 
 that he might have been with the advice, and still 
 more with the help, and with the sympathy, and 
 with the co-operation, of the superior. It is the 
 hireling, and not the shepherd — the hireling, wkose 
 own the sheep are not — who seeth the wolf coming 
 — the wolf of drunkenness, and the wolf of lust, 
 and the wolf of infidelity, and the wolf of god- 
 lessness — and goes his way, to his library or to 
 his club, to his committee-room or his plat- 
 form — I had almost said, to his Congress or his 
 Convocation — while the wolf may — for him — 
 scatter, or catch, or devour his flock. 
 
 We have seen lives so different — lives begun, 
 continued, and ended, on a principle so opposite — 
 without one charm of scenery, or society, or even 
 visible and present success — yet persisted in, from 
 day to day and from year to year, so patiently, so 
 laboriously, so devotedly, even to infirmity and 
 
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 hoar hairs and death itself — that we feel ourselves 
 to be speaking the possible as well as the ideal 
 thing when we urge ourselves and others to the 
 like perseverance and the like stedfastness — look- 
 ing for our reward to the far distance and the final 
 crown — the appearing of the chief Shepherd, and 
 the evening call, Give them their hire. 
 
 Let no one imagine that a life given in this way 
 to a poor or secluded Parish is lost to that cause 
 which I am sure we all have at heart — the defence 
 of our Church as the National, the Established 
 Church of England. We may depend upon it, that 
 each self-denying, self-sacrificing, self-forgetting 
 Parish Priest is doing more to deepen the founda- 
 tions of the Church itself, where alone they can be 
 securely laid — in the heart of the people — than the 
 ablest, the foremost, the most eloquent champion 
 of that Church in the chief places of public 
 concourse. If the work of the Church were well 
 done in each separate Parish, the position of the 
 Church as an Institution would be unassailed and 
 unassailable. 
 
 (2) There is yet another side to the individual 
 
THE PASTORAL OFFICE. 
 
 self-devotion of the Pastor ; and that is, the 
 preference of ministration (strictly so called) to 
 what is commonly understood as organization. 
 The Pastoral Office of God Himself, as it is 
 described in the 23rd Psalm, is all personal. 
 It is the Office of One who looks after, and who 
 attends to, and who deals with, the separate 
 wanderer, the individual sufferer, the one hungering 
 and thirsting, the one needy and desolate and 
 imperilled and terror-stricken. What a lesson, scarce 
 veiled in parable, is here for the human shepherd ! 
 While we are planning how to overspread a 
 population of hundreds or thousands with a perfect 
 net-work of most intricate machinery, the one 
 house in which there is an opening, the one life 
 in which there is a Providence, the one soul in 
 which there is an awakening, is lost in the crowd 
 of numbers, at the very moment when it is singled 
 out by God Himself for effectual ministry. 
 
 I dread the hackneyed phrase — used sometimes 
 as the highest recommendation of Parish or Curacy 
 — " Such a man is a splendid organizer." It means 
 too often that the chief minister, in experience as 
 
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 in office, is sitting at the council-board of planning 
 and scheming, while the terrible struggle between 
 Christ and Satan on the battle-field of some 
 anguish-stricken or dying soul is directed (if at all) 
 by the youngest deacon, or the most ignorant 
 layman, or the feeblest woman, upon whom human 
 chance or Christian compassion has devolved this 
 most arduous, most responsible service. The 
 Pastoral Office is a hand-to-hand, heart-to-heart, 
 soul-to-soul ministration. In its highest exercises, 
 at all events, it is an individual work, alike in the 
 Minister and in the ministered unto. The indi- 
 vidual must be first sought and found — then he in 
 turn becomes a new centre of personal light and 
 warmth to other individual lives and souls around 
 him. He calleth his own sheep by name — and there- 
 fore one by one. 
 
 Let it not be supposed, however, that we forget, 
 in so saying, the variety, the manifoldness, of the 
 Spirit's gifts, or would tie every Minister down 
 to one pattern. If "a splendid organizer" is 
 not much, "a powerful inspirer" is a magnificent 
 description. There are men whom health or 
 
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 133 
 
 capacity or overwhelming pressure preclude from 
 constant personal access to their Parishioners, who 
 yet, by teaching the teachers, by sending the 
 sent, by intense interest in every part of the work, 
 by intense sympathy with every one of the workers, 
 do contrive to be everywhere, and to do everything, 
 not so much by deputy, as in the spirit — their 
 influence is blessed of God, and their Parish is 
 like His own garden, beautiful for planting, and 
 well watered. 
 
 3. This last thought will suggest one word 
 upon the character of the more public teaching. 
 One chief feature of the Pastoral Office, as it is 
 described in the Psalm and in the Gospel, is its 
 tenderness. T lie Lord is my SJiephcrd : I shall not 
 want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : 
 He leadcth me beside the still waters. He restoreth 
 (or refreshcth) my sold. Thou anointcst my head 
 with oil: my cup runneth over. He goeth before 
 them, and the sheep follow Him, for they know His 
 voice. They know not the voice of strangers. 
 
 All this has a bearing upon the public as well 
 as the private Ministry. Why is it that so much 
 
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 of our preaching is scantily attended, languidly- 
 listened to, wasted in the result ? Many answers 
 might be given — let one suffice. There is a want 
 of this voice, not as of strangers, which the 
 people " know " because it is human ; the voice 
 which was so remarkably that of the Divine Pastor 
 below, and which is still so characteristic of the 
 Divine Pastor above, as He speaks in those who are 
 after His own heart in His work ; the voice which 
 gives reality to each subject touched upon, the 
 reality of experience within, the reality at once of 
 insight and of sympathy towards them that hear. 
 Let us try our Sermons (may I presume to say 
 it ?) by this test. Is the tone tender, with that 
 kind of tenderness which is at once genuine and 
 manly ? Is this thing which I say, a thing which 
 I have tried upon myself and found useful ? Is 
 it spoken now to others, not as if from a throne 
 or a judgment-seat, but as with a brother's 
 voice, known because it knows ? I venture 
 to promise an audience, and I venture to pro- 
 mise attention, and I venture to promise many 
 a responsive tear and prayer and effort, to every 
 
THE PASTORAL OFFICE. 
 
 135 
 
 Minister, however young, however unlearned, who 
 carries a Pastor's love and a Pastor's yearning into 
 the Pulpit whence he is to feed his flock. 
 
 4. There is one last thing that I would draw 
 from the Divine models before me — because I feel 
 that it does stand by itself in importance as well as 
 in pathos — and that is, the Pastoral Office in its 
 companionship of the dying. 
 
 It is said of the Divine Shepherd, as the very 
 climax of His Ministry, Yea, though I walk through 
 the valley of the shadow of deatJi, I will fear no evil : 
 for Thou art with me ; Thy rod and Thy staff they 
 comfort me. 
 
 In his own humble way the human Shepherd has 
 to represent the Divine. People who have thought 
 scorn of you in your Church and in your daily 
 round of ministering, expect you at their death- 
 bed. Expect, it may be, too much of you. Expect 
 a miracle. Expect a viaticum, a passport, and a 
 safeguard, which lies not with man. Still they 
 recognize that part of your pastoral office which I 
 have called the companionship of the dying. How 
 great, how solemn, how awful an undertaking ! To 
 
136 
 
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 accompany to the very brink of that dark river a 
 dying man, to whom all is necessarily strange — 
 happy if it be not all repulsive and horrible ; to 
 guide the steps of the soul towards that plunge 
 into the invisible ; to point out to the alarmed, or 
 (much, much worse) to the stupefied, a way of 
 salvation never sought in life ; or, on the other 
 hand — blessed be God, it is sometimes so — to be 
 permitted to go up, hand in hand with a believing 
 and a rejoicing spirit, to the very threshold of 
 the golden gates, and almost to look in after it 
 as it enters — who is sufficient for these things ? 
 What manner of persons ought we to be always 
 and everywhere — in what an attitude of constant 
 preparedness, shod indeed perpetually with 
 what St. Paul calls the readiness of the Gospel 
 of peace — who may be called, at any moment, 
 from Study or drawing-room, to minister thus to a 
 parting soul ! What earnestness should we feel, 
 not to be found helplessly silent or shamefully 
 formal in the necessary suggestion of last words, 
 last consolations, last prayers, to the dying ! W hat 
 manner of persons, I repeat it, ought we Pastors to 
 
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 137 
 
 be — were it but for this cause — in all holy conversa- 
 tion and godliness ! 
 
 With a feeble and trembling hand I have 
 sketched this faint outline of some features of the 
 Pastoral Office : and now, at the close, I fear lest 
 perhaps I should have saddened by my words 
 some heart which God has not made sad, when 
 my one thought has been how to set the work 
 before my brethren as not only the . highest and 
 most glorious, but also the humblest and the 
 happiest, in which this life can be spent and that 
 world waited for. Every thought of God's mercy 
 and goodness and longsuffering, by which we seek 
 to encourage and to reassure the diffident and the 
 self-despairing in the Christian life generally, is at 
 least as available for those who are charged with 
 this particular stewardship. If there be in our 
 calling, as doubtless there is, a peculiar difficulty, 
 risk, and trial, then in the same degree does it 
 receive a peculiar help, guidance, and blessing, 
 from the gracious and merciful One with whom we 
 have to do. Upon that help, that guidance, that 
 blessing, let us cast ourselves day by day with a 
 
I3§ THE PASTORAL OFFICE. 
 
 more simple and a more earnest affiance. What 
 we need, He knows : nay, if we need an entirely- 
 new start and new impulse in His life, the minis- 
 terial or the personal, that also He knows, and 
 that also lies within the compass of His power and 
 of His love in Christ. 
 
 Finally, if there be one here present, who has 
 been wont to judge harshly or to speak disdainfully 
 of that Pastoral Office which he himself bears not, 
 let me beseech in its behalf a kindlier eye and a 
 more respectful tongue. This Office represents to 
 you, in type and similitude, the Ministry of God 
 Himself, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy 
 Ghost, towards you His erring creature, His 
 anxiously sought and tenderly beloved child. 
 When you see your earthly Pastor entering the 
 house of sickness or sorrow ; when you hear his 
 voice as he pleads with you in the Church, in the 
 name of the Redeemer above, concerning truth 
 and holiness, concerning resurrection and the life 
 to come ; bethink yourself what a speaking sign is 
 here of a mercy that will not forsake, of a love 
 that will not let you sleep on and die. Where he 
 
THE PASTORAL OFFICE. 
 
 '39 
 
 fails in his work, where he fails in his example, 
 have compassion, and judge not. The flock is the 
 loser when the Shepherd sleeps or is weary. Cling 
 the more closely to the heavenly Pastor, if the 
 earthly disappoints or deceives you. He will not 
 disappoint, he will not deceive, if you will but act 
 towards him on the principle which Scripture 
 prescribes— 
 
 Obey them that have the guidance of yon, and 
 submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, 
 as they that must give account : that they may do it 
 with joy, and ?iot with grief : for that is unprofitable, 
 not for them only, but for you. 
 
 Brethren, pray for us. 
 
X. 
 
 christ's dismissals. 
 
 Mark viii. 9. 
 
 And He sent them away. 
 
 The word is a very gentle one. It expresses no 
 dismissal, no expulsion, no banishment from the 
 presence — but the tenderest possible release and 
 letting go, after the kindest possible reception and 
 entertainment. There is another word in the Greek 
 — sometimes rendered in the same form by our 
 Translators — which has not half the gentleness and 
 sweetness of this. That other word occurs in a 
 later verse of this very chapter ; and it is there 
 rightly translated, He left them. That is the 
 word for Christ's parting with enemies — like the 
 
CHRIST'S DISMISSALS. 
 
 I 4 I 
 
 Pharisees of that paragraph, who had been 
 demanding of Him a sign from heaven : or, at 
 best, for His close of a passing connection with 
 mere outside hearers ; as when, in the fourth 
 chapter of this Gospel, we read, When they had 
 sent away the multitudes — or, more properly, 
 leaving the multitudes — they took Him, even 
 as He was, in the ship. But here it is other- 
 wise : the " sending away" here described is that 
 tender personal release which Christ gave, and 
 which He made a point of, and laid stress upon, 
 in the case of those who had received from Him 
 a personal benefit, which He would engrave upon 
 their hearts by a closing word and by a parting 
 benediction. 
 
 But it is especially in one connection that we 
 have this careful " sending away " dwelt upon. 
 Again and again, both in St. Matthew and St. 
 Mark, and (though less pointedly) in St. Luke, it 
 is annexed to the miracles of the table spread in 
 the wilderness. The text closes the second of these 
 miracles — the feeding of the four thousand with 
 the seven loaves. But the same feature belongs to 
 
142 
 
 CHRIST'S DISMISSALS. 
 
 the earlier miracle also — the feeding of the five 
 thousand with the five loaves. In that former 
 instance our Lord insisted upon being left alone to 
 give the release. He constrained His disciples 
 to get into the ship, and to go before Him to the 
 other side of the lake, while He — St. Mark 
 says, He Himself- — sent the multitudes away. 
 Evidently He attached some special significance to 
 this personal dismissal. He would do it, and do 
 it alone. He might, as at other times, have just 
 " left " them — the other word — got into the vessel, 
 and gone away with the twelve. But He would 
 not. He would stay behind, " send away " the 
 guests, and even then not hasten to follow the 
 ship, but retire into the mountain to pray between 
 the two miracles — the feeding of the multitudes, 
 and the walking on the sea. 
 
 Superficial readers of Scripture miss these 
 " signs." Like the Pharisees, they are but too 
 clamorous for a sign from heaven of the truth of 
 the Gospel, of the Divinity of Christ. But, mean- 
 while, they have no eye for the tokens which are 
 vouchsafed. It is in these little incidental vestiges 
 
CHRIST'S DISMISSALS. 
 
 1 43 
 
 and footprints of Jesus, that they who wait for 
 Him see so much of Him— see Him manifesting 
 Himself, not in wind or earthquake or fire, but in 
 that still small voice which is at once so human 
 and so Divine. 
 
 He sent them away. 
 
 It was evidently a work of time and of 
 toil, which He thus undertook. We imagine a 
 careful, courteous, individual farewell. We picture 
 to ourselves the Divine Host taking leave separately 
 of His guests. Each one of the four thousand was 
 to have his parting word. And that parting word 
 must be from the Master, not from the servant. It 
 was of no use that the twelve disciples should stay 
 to assist Him. We can fancy the disappointment 
 which would have befallen any one of the multitude, 
 whose heart was still glowing with the gratitude of 
 that supernatural feast, if he had been put off with 
 a deputed farewell. Never again, on that side of 
 the sea of Galilee, might there be a chance of seeing 
 and speaking with the Divine Friend. Let them 
 seize it now. Yes, He will indulge each one with 
 that pressure of the hand, with that sunshine of 
 
144 
 
 CHRIST'S DISMISSALS. 
 
 the eye, which cannot be sent by letter nor repre- 
 sented by delegation. 
 
 (1) We see here the grace of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, in His attention to small matters. The 
 substantial boon was the miracle. You might say, 
 That was enough. No one could forget that, or be 
 insensible to that — all else was surplusage. Such 
 was not His judgment. Who has not had 
 experience, in human intercourse, how the whole 
 zest and charm of a benefit may be diminished, 
 may be destroyed, by the manner of it ? how a 
 cold reception, or a formal parting may turn a 
 compliment into an insult ? how the omission, 
 even the accidental omission, of a last word, may 
 be felt as a slight, or resented as an injury ? It is 
 in little things that life is lived — Christ would 
 stamp courtesy itself with the signet of His bene- 
 diction. 
 
 (2) It is akin to this remark, to notice how 
 Christ loves, and gives the example of, order, 
 deliberation, tranquillity, in all things. He teaches 
 us how fatal to the effect, to the efficiency therefore, 
 of any work, is the very appearance of haste and 
 
CHRIST'S DISMISSALS. 
 
 145 
 
 precipitancy. If ever there was One in human 
 form whose time was precious, surely it was the 
 Creator and Preserver of all mankind. Who 
 could say that the work of that day was not 
 duly ended, when the care of the souls of that 
 multitude had been followed by the care of famish- 
 ing bodies, and when nothing remained but their 
 departure to their homes ? Who might not think 
 that he honoured Christ by remembering the other 
 multitudes, and the other works of teaching and 
 benefiting, which must wait His leisure from this ? 
 Yet we find Him not only calm and patient 
 through the day's unspeakable toil, but refusing 
 rest, postponing even devotion, till He has crowned 
 the benefit with the benediction. Himself, alone, 
 He will as calmly, as patiently, " dismiss ;" and then 
 He will rest — in other words, then He will pray. 
 O, how many a good work has been spoiled by 
 haste ! How often has the kind deed been neutral- 
 ized by the hurry, by the impatience, of the doing ! 
 How often has the seed of charity not been " sown 
 with blessings," and the receiver felt but half the 
 gift, because, unlike Christ, the giver was too much 
 
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 preoccupied to " dismiss " him with benediction ! 
 Let us sit at His feet and learn how the busiest 
 of men may make "business" availing, by the 
 simple remembrance that, what there is time to 
 do, there is time to do thoroughly, and time to 
 do well. 
 
 (3) We may draw yet another lesson from this 
 solemn " sending away : " and it is, the importance 
 attached by our Master to closing scenes, to last 
 words, to parting seasons. He seems to have felt 
 that as much depends upon the going as upon the 
 coming. These four thousand people about the 
 number gathered (perhaps) under the Dome of St. 
 Paul's Cathedral at one of its great functions of 
 worship — have had all that they are to have, for 
 this time, of spiritual or bodily nutriment : how 
 can they be too hastily, too hurriedly, got rid of? 
 Who would think of taking leave, at the doors of 
 some great Cathedral, of the dispersing vanishing 
 multitude ? Impossible — who would not say ? — im- 
 possible, and idle ! But the Divine Host takes 
 eave of His guests. He thinks as much of the 
 staying behind to dismiss, as of the teaching 
 
CHRIST'S DISMISSALS. 
 
 H7 
 
 or the feeding which has been the business of the 
 meeting. 
 
 Christ, I say, knows the value of an orderly 
 dismissal. He attaches importance to the last end 
 of everything — whether it be Service, or season, or 
 circumstance, or human life. 
 
 Brethren, dear brethren ! We have reached the 
 end, this morning, of a meeting which I trust we 
 shall long remember with pleasure and with thank- 
 fulness. It is not probable that we shall ever 
 again, in this life, all be assembled. There is a 
 sadness in the happiest meeting — for it tells as 
 much of parting as of gathering, of dispersion as 
 of union. It is no exaggeration, to my own feeling 
 at least, to speak of this last service as one of the 
 " orderly dismissals " of Jesus Christ. Let us wait 
 for it. Let us see Him present amongst us this 
 morning — first to spread His table in the wilder- 
 ness, first to feed us with His spiritual food, and 
 then, Himself, to send us away. 
 
 Yes, we are going back now to our work and to 
 our labour— and we cannot go without His blessing. 
 May He " dismiss " us here, to meet us there — to be 
 
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 with us "all the days," according to His promise, 
 till our great change come. 
 He sent them away. 
 
 It is the very word, in the Greek, of the "Nunc 
 Dimittis." Lord, now sendest T/iou away Thy 
 servant, according to Thy word — for mine eyes 
 have seen Thy salvation. 
 
 There is before each one of us one " dismissal," 
 in which happy is he for whom Christ is present. 
 That calm, orderly, tranquil departure, at which 
 Christ officiates — that going away to be with Christ 
 — that evening of life's day, of one colour and one 
 climate with the day, yet softer, sweeter, calmer, 
 brighter, than any one previous hour of it — meet 
 antitype of the " dismissal " which has been our 
 subject! O may we so live, as expectants of that 
 evening ! May there be no necessity for any such 
 wrench and reversal of the being, as shall place the 
 evening at utter variance with the noonday and 
 with the morning ! In other words, let us abide 
 with Christ all the day long, hearing His word, 
 living upon His supplies, and calmly waiting for 
 His calm Dimitto. Brethren ! all the value of 
 
CHRIST'S DISMISSALS. 
 
 149 
 
 His Church's Ordinances, all the value of His 
 Pastors' Ministries, lies in this conformation of the 
 life to the death — in this knitting into one of the 
 hope of the end and the experience of the present. 
 
 Break off thy sins by righteousness is the counsel 
 of the day — make haste, prolong not the time 
 to keep God's commandments — so shall there be 
 no haste and no confusion when the Lord of life 
 and death sends thee away here that He may 
 meet thee there . He sent them away, with words 
 of love and blessing — sent them, went with, and 
 met them : though they walk through the valley 
 of the shadow of death, they fear no evil— for 
 He is with them — His rod and His staff comfort 
 them. 
 
 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all 
 the days of my life : and I will dwell in the house 
 of the Lord— for ever. 
 
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 of the writer's narrative, not changing it under any pretext. I have 
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 for his." 
 
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 ciple, so different in many respects from those of the other three Evangelists. 
 Appended are eleven notes illustrating various points which occur through- 
 out the discourses. The Literary Churchman thus speaks of this volume : 
 — " Thorough honesty, reverence, and deep thought pervade the work, 
 which is every way solid and philosophical, as well as theological, and 
 abounding with suggestions which the patient student may draw out more 
 at length for himself." 
 
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 These Lectures on Christian Ethics were delivered to the students of the 
 Working Men's College, Great Ormond Street, London, on a series of 
 Sunday mornings. Mr. Maurice believes that the question in which we 
 are most interested, the question which most affects our studies and our daily 
 lives, is the question, whether there is a foundation for human morality, 
 
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 or -whether it is dependent upon the opinions and fashions of different ages 
 and countries. This important question mill be found amply and fairly 
 discussed in this volume, -which the National Review calls " J\Ir. 
 Maurice's most effective and instructive work. He is peculiarly fitted 
 by the constitution of his mind, to tlirow light on St. John's writings." 
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 EXPOSITORY SERMONS ON THE PRAYER-BOOK. 
 
 The Prayer-book considered especially in reference to the Romish 
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 After an Introductory Sermon, Mr. Maurice goes over the various p(frts 
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 significance, and shews how appropriate they are as expressions of the 
 deepest longings and 'wants of all classes of men. 
 
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 a rule these refer to events contemporaneous with or immediately succeeding 
 the time when the book was written. At the same time he shews the 
 applicability of the contents of the book to the circumstances of the present 
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 more discerning of the purpose of the Spirit, or more sober and practical 
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 authorities on the other side, he must still assert the principle -which he 
 discovers in the Services of the Church and throughout the Bible. 
 
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 working in my mind for years; the method of it has not been adopted 
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 does Christianity stand to these different faiths ? If there be a faith -which 
 is meant for mankind, is this the one, or must we look for another ?" 
 
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 In these Nine Sermons the successive petitions of the Lords Prayer are 
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 ON THE SABBATH DAY ; the Character of the Warrior, 
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 In these Four Sermons Mr. Maurice views the subject in four aspects : 
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 SOCIAL MORALITY. Twenty-one Lectures delivered in 
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 and prejudice, the large charity, the loftiness of thought, the eagerness to 
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 world, which animates it from one end to the other. We gain new 
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 to show in what way it may be brought to bear at the present day upon 
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 The remaining Chapters, extending from the Apostles' personal Ministry 
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 work of all the prominent men in any way connected with the Early 
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 and mutual relations of Faith and Justification ; the fifth and sixth 
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 and Evening Prayer and the Litany. By F. Procter, M. A. and 
 G. F. "Maclear, D.D. New Edition. 181110. is.dd. 
 
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 THE AUTHORITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, 
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 After some Introductory Remarks, in which the propriety of a revision 
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 is gone into in detail, in eleven chapters. Appended is a chronological list 
 
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 of works bearing on the subject, an Index of the principal Texts con- 
 sidered, an Index of Greek Words, and an Index of other Words re- 
 ferred to throughout the book. 
 
 STUDIES IN THE GOSPELS. Third Edition. 8vo. 
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 This book is published under the conviction that the assertion often 
 made is untrue, — viz. that the Gospels are in the main plain and easy, 
 and that all the chief difficulties of the New Testament are to be found 
 in the Epistles. These "Studies," sixteen in number, are the fruit of a 
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 mentioned in the Gospels, in a critical, philosophical, and practical man- 
 ner. Many references and quotations are added to the Notes. Among 
 the subjects treated are: — The Temptation ; Christ and the Samaritan 
 Woman ; The Three Aspirants ; The Transfiguration ; Zacclucus ; The 
 True Vine; The Penitent Malefactor ; Christ and the Two Disciples on 
 the way to Emmaus. 
 
 COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLES to the SEVEN 
 CHURCHES IN ASIA. Third Edition, revised. 8vo. 8s. 6d. 
 
 The present 'work consists of an Introduction, being a commentary on 
 Rei'. i. 4 — 20, a detailed examination oj each of the Seven Epistles, in all 
 its bearings, and an Excursus on the Historico- Prophetical Interpreta- 
 tion of the Epistles. 
 
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 merits as an Interpreter of Holy Scripture. Third Edition, en- 
 larged. 8vo. ioj. 6d. 
 The first half of the present work consists of a dissertation in eight 
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 and Canons of Interpretation. IV. Augustine 's Allegorical Interpretation 
 of Scripture. V. Illustrations of Augustine's Skill as an Interpreter of 
 Scripture. VI. Augustine on jfohn the Baptist and on St. Stephen. 
 VII. Augustine on the Epistle to the Romaits. VIII. Miscellaneous 
 Examples of Augustine's Interpretation of Scripture. The latter half of 
 the 'work consists of Ai/gustine's Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, 
 not however a mere series of quotations from Augustine, but a connected 
 account of his sentiments on the various passages of that Sermon, inter- 
 spersed -with criticisms by Archbishop Trench. 
 
 SERMONS PREACHED in WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 
 Second Edition. 8vo. xos. 6d. 
 
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 practical, earnest, and evangelical, and simple in style. Tlie following 
 are a few of the subjects: — " Tercentenary Celebration of Queen Eliza- 
 beths Accession-" "Conviction and Conversion ;" "The Incredulity of 
 Thomas;" " The Angels' 1 Hymn;" "Counting the Cost;" " The Holy 
 Trinity in Relation to our Prayers ;" "On the Death of Genei-al Have- 
 lock-" '■'Christ Weeping over Jerusalem ;" "Walking with Christ in 
 White." 
 
 SHIPWRECKS OF FAITH. Three Sermons preached 
 before the University of Cambridge in May, 1867. Fcap. 8vo. 
 is. 6<l. 
 
 These Sermons are especially addressed to young tnen. The subjects 
 are "Balaam," "Saul," and "Judas Iscariot," These lives are set 
 forth as beacon-lights, "to warn us off from perilous reefs and quick- 
 sands, which have been the destruction of many, and which might only loo 
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 SERMONS Preached for the most part in Ireland. 8vo. 
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 This volume consists of Thirty-two Sermons, the greater part of which 
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 with God and with Men — Agrippa — The Woman that was a Sinner — 
 Secret Faults — The Seven Worse Spirits — Freedom in the Truth — Joseph 
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 the World— The Loi>e of Money— The Salt of the Earth — The Armour of 
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 of Moses — A Word from the Cross — The Church's Worship in the 
 Beauty of Holiness — Every Good Gift from Above — On the Hearing of 
 Prayer — The Hingdom which comet h not "with Observation — Pressing 
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 — All Saints. 
 
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 Unseen Universe (The): or, Physical Speculations 
 
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 CHRIST SATISFYING THE INSTINCTS OF HU- 
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 MEMORIALS OF HARROW SUNDAYS. A Selection 
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 of the Chapel. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. los. 6d. 
 ' 'Discussing, " says the John Bull, ' ' those forms of evil and impediments 
 to duty which peculiarly beset the young, Dr. Vaughan has, with singular 
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 of the thoughtful boy or young man entering life." 
 
 THE BOOK AND THE LIFE, and other Sermons, 
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 These Sermons are all of a thoroughly practical nature, and some of 
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 TWELVE DISCOURSES on SUBJECTS CONNECTED 
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 11 Subscription and Scruples," the other on the "Rubric and the Burial 
 Service." The Press characterises the volume as "eminently wise and 
 temperate. " 
 
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 LESSONS OF LIFE AND GODLINESS. A Selection 
 of Sermons preached in the Parish Church of Doncaster. Fourth 
 and Cheaper Edition. Fcap. Svo. 6d. 
 
 This volume consists of Nineteen Sermons, mostly on subjects connected 
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 titles as " The Talebearer,''' "Features of Charity" " The Danger of Re- 
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 "Use and Abuse of the World." The Spectator styles them "earnest 
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 whatever may be amiss in their natural disposition or in their acquired 
 habits." \ 
 
 WORDS FROM THE GOSPELS. A Second Selection 
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 Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d. 
 
 The Nonconformist characterises these Sermons as " of practical earnest- 
 ness, of a thoughtfulness that penetrates the common conditions and ex- 
 periences of life, and brings the truths and examples of Scripture to bear 
 on them with singular force, and of a style that owes its real elegance to 
 the simplicity and directness which have fine culture for their roots." 
 
 LESSONS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION. Six 
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 Easter, 1869. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 
 The titles of the Sermons are: — I. " Too Late" ( Matt. xxvi. 45). II. 
 " The Divine Sacrifice and the Human Priesthood. " III. "Love not the 
 World." IV. " The Moral Glory of Christ." V. "Christ made perfect 
 through Suffering." VI. "Death the Remedy of Christ's Loneliness." 
 " This little volume," the Nonconformist says, "exhibits all his best cha- 
 racteristics. Elevat.ed, calm, and clear, the Sermons owe much to their 
 force, and yet they seem literally to owe nothing to it. They are studied, 
 but their grace is the grace of perfect simplicity." 
 
 LIFE'S WORK AND GOD'S DISCIPLINE. Three 
 Sermons. New Edition. Fcap. Svo. zs. 6d. 
 
 The Three Sermons are on the following- subjects : — /. "The Work 
 bunted and the Workmen saved." II. " The Individual Hiring." III. 
 " The Remedial Discipline of Disease and Death." 
 
 THE WHOLESOME WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST. 
 Four Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge in 
 November 1866. Second Edition. Fcap. Svo. cloth, y.dd. 
 
 Dr. Vaughan uses the word "Wholesome" here in its literal and 
 original sense, the sense in which St. Paul uses it, as meaning healthy, 
 
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 sound, conducing to right living ; and in these Sermons he points out 
 and illustrates several of the "wholesome" characteristics of the Gospel, 
 — the Words of Christ. The John Bull says this volume is "replete with 
 all the author's well-known vigour of thought and richness of expression." 
 
 FOES OF FAITH. Sermons preached before the Uni- 
 versity of Cambridge in November 1868. Fcap. 8vo. y. 6d. 
 
 The 11 Foes of Faith" preached against in these Four Sermons are: — 
 /. "Unreality?' II. " Indolence." III. "Irreverence." IV. "Incon- 
 sistency." " They are written" the London Review says,' "with culture 
 and elegance, and exhibit the thoughtful earnestness, piety, and good sense 
 of their author." 
 
 LECTURES ON THE EPISTLE to the PHILIPPIANS. 
 Third and Cheaper Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. $s. 
 
 Each Lecture is prefaced by a literal translation from the Greek of 
 the paragraph which forms its, subject, contains first a minute explanation 
 of the passage on which it is based, and then a practical application of 
 the verse or clause selected as its text. 
 
 LECTURES ON THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN. 
 Fourth Edition. Two Vols. Extra fcap. 8vo. 9.?. 
 
 In this Edition of these Lectures, the literal translations of the passages 
 expounded will be found interwoven in the body of the Lectures themselves. 
 In attempting to expound this most-hard-to-understand Book, Dr. Vaughan, 
 while taking from others wliat assistance he required, has not adhered to 
 any particular school of interpretation, but has endeavoured to shew forth 
 the significance of this Revelation by the help of his strong common sense, 
 critical acumen, scholarship, and reverent spirit. "Dr. Vaughan' s Ser- 
 mons," the Spectator says, "are the most practical discourses on the 
 Apocalypse with which we are acquainted. " Prefixed is a Synopsis of the 
 Book of Revelation, and appended is an Index of passages illustrating 
 the language of the Book. 
 
 EPIPHANY, LENT, AND EASTER. A Selection of 
 Expositoiy Sermons. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 The first eighteen of these Sermons were preached during the seasons of 
 i860, indicated in the title, and are practical expositions of passages taken 
 from the lessons of the days 'on which they were delivered. Each Lecture is 
 prefaced with a careful and literal rendering of the original of the passage 
 of which the Lecture is an exposition. The Nonconformist says that 
 "in simplicity, dignity, close adherence to the words of Scripture, insight 
 into ' the mind of the Spirit,' and practical thoughtfulness, they are models 
 of that species of pulpit instruction to which they belong." 
 
 THE EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL. For English Readers. 
 Part I., containing the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. 
 Second Edition. 8vo. is. 6d. 
 
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 It is the object of this work to enable English readers, unacquainted 
 with Greek, to enter with intelligence into the meaning, connection, and 
 phraseology of the writings of the great Apostle. 
 
 ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. The Greek 
 Text, with English Notes. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. "]s. 6d. 
 
 This volume contains the Greek Text of the Epistle to the Romans as 
 settled by the Rev. B. F. Westcott, D.D., for his complete recension of the 
 Text of the New Testament. A ppoided to the text are copious critical and 
 exegetical Notes, the result of almost eighteen years' study on the part of 
 the author. The " Index of Words illustrated or explained in the Notes" 
 will be found, in some considerable degree, an Index to the Epistles as a 
 whole. Prefixed to the volume is a discourse on "St. Raul's Conversion 
 and Doctrine, " suggested by some ?'ecent publications on St. Raul's theo- 
 logical standing. The Guardian says of the work, — "For educated young 
 men his commentary seems to fill a gap hitherto unfilled. . . . As a whole, 
 Dr. Vaughan appears to us to have given to the world a valuable book op 
 original and careful and earnest thought bestowed on the accomplishment 
 of a work which will be of much service and which is much needed." 
 
 THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST DAYS. 
 Series I. The Church of Jerusalem. Third Edition. 
 " II. The Church of the Gentiles. Third Edition. 
 " III. The Church of the World. Second Edition. 
 Fcap. 8vo. cloth. $s. 6d. each. 
 Where necessary, the Autlwrized Version has been departed from, and 
 a new literal translation taken as the basis of exposition. All possible 
 topographical and historical light has been brought to bear on the subject ; 
 and while thoroughly practical in their aim, these Lectures will be found 
 to afford a fair notion of the history and condition op the Primitive 
 Church. Tlie British Quarterly says, — " These Sermons are worthy of 
 all praise, and are models of pulpit teaching." 
 
 COUNSELS for YOUNG STUDENTS. Three Sermons 
 preached before the University of Cambridge at the Opening of 
 the Academical Year 1870-71. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 
 The titles of the Three Sermons contained in this volume are: — /. 
 "The Great Decision." II. " The House and the Builder." Hi. "The 
 Prayer and the Counter- Prayer. " They all bear pointedly, earnestly, and 
 sympathisingly upon the conduct and pursuits of young students and 
 young men generally. 
 
 NOTES FOR LECTURES ON CONFIRMATION, 
 with suitable Prayers. Eighth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. is. 6d. 
 
 In preparation for the Confirmation held in Harrow School Chapel, 
 Dr. Vaughan was in the habit of printing week by week, and distributing 
 among the 1 Candidates, somewhat full notes of the Lecture he purposed to 
 
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 deliver to them, together with a form of Prayer adapted to the particular 
 subject. He has collected these weekly A r otes and Prayers into this little 
 volume, in the hope that it may assist the labours of those who are engaged 
 in preparing Candidates for Confirmation, and who find it dipficult.to lay 
 their hand upon any one book of suitable instruction. 
 
 THE TWO GREAT TEMPTATIONS. The Tempta- 
 tion of Man, and the Temptation of Christ. Lectures delivered in 
 the Temple Church, Lent 1872. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Vaughan. — Works by David* J. Vaughan, M.A., Vicar of 
 
 St. Martin's, Leicester : — 
 
 SERMONS PREACHED IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, 
 LEICESTER, during the Years 1855 and 1856. Cr. 8vo. $ s - 
 
 CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES AND THE BIBLE. New 
 Edition, revised and enlarged. Fcap. 8vo. cloth. $s. 6d. 
 
 "This little volume," the Spectator says, "is a model of that honest 
 and reverent criticism of t lie Bible which is not only right, but the duty of 
 English clergymen in such times as these to put forth from the pulpit." 
 
 Venn.— ON SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF 
 BELIEF, Scientific and Religious. Being the Hulsean Lectures 
 for 1S69. By the Rev. J. Venn, M. A. Svo. 6s. 6d. 
 
 These discourses are intended to illustrate, explain, and work out into 
 some of their consequences, certain characteristics by which the attainment of 
 religious belief is prominently distinguished from the attainment of belief 
 upon most other subjects. 
 
 Warington.— THE WEEK OF CREATION ; OR. THE 
 COSMOGONY OF GENESIS CONSIDERED IN ITS 
 RELATION TO MODERN SCIENCE. By George War- 
 ington, Author of "The Historic Character of the Pentateuch 
 Vindicated." Crown Svo. 4s. 6d. 
 The greater part of this work' is taken up with the teaching of the 
 Cosmogony. Its purpose is also investigated, and a chapter is devoted to 
 the consideration of the passage in which the difficulties occur. "A very 
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 vantages of a aitical knowledge of the Hebrew text and of distinguished 
 scientific attainments." — Spectator. 
 
 Westcott. — Works by Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D., 
 
 Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge ; 
 
 Canon of Peterborough : — 
 The London Quarterly, speaking of Mr. Westcott, says,-—" To a learn- 
 ing and accuracy which command respect and confidence, he unites what 
 are not always to be found in union with these qualities, the no less valuable 
 faculties of lucid arrangement and graceful and facile expression. " 
 
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 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE 
 GOSPELS. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. \os. 6d. 
 
 The author's chief object in this work has been to shew that the>-e is 
 a true mean between the idea of a formal harmonization of the Gospels 
 and the abandonment of their absolute truth. After an Introduction on 
 the General Effects of the course of Modern Philosophy on the popular 
 views of Christianity, he proceeds to determine in what way the principles 
 therein indicated may be applied to the study of the Gospels. The treatise 
 is divided into eight Chapters : — /. The Preparation for the Gospel. II. 
 The Jewish Doctrine of the Messiah. III. The Origin of the Gospels. 
 IV. The Characteristics of the Gospels. V. The Gospel of St. John. 
 VI. and VII. The Differences in detail and of arrangement in the 
 Synoptic Evangelists. VIII. The Difficulties of the Gospels. The Ap- 
 pendices contain much valuable subsidiary matter. 
 
 A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF THE 
 CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DURING THE 
 FIRST FOUR CENTURIES. Fourth Edition, revised, with 
 a Preface on "Supernatural Religion." Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 The object of this treatise is to deal with the Neiv Testament as a whole, 
 and that on purely historical grounds. The separate books of which it is 
 composed are considered not individually, but as claiming to be parts of the 
 apostolic heritage of Christians. The Author has thus endeavoured to con- 
 nect the history of the A'ezi* Testament Canon with the growth and con- 
 solidation of the Catholic Church, and to point out the relation existing 
 between the amount of evidence for the authenticity of its component parts 
 and the whole mass of Christian literature. "The treatise," says the 
 British Quarterly, "is a scholarly performance, learned, dispassionate, 
 discriminating, worthy of his subject and of the present stale oj Christian 
 literature in relation to it. " 
 
 THE BIBLE IN THE CHURCH. A Popular Account 
 of the Collection and Reception of the Holy Scriptures in the 
 Christian Churches. New Edition. l8mo. 4^. 6d. 
 
 The present volume has been written under the impression that a 
 History of the 'whole Bible, and not of the New Testament only, •Would 
 be required, if those unfamiliar with the subject were to be enabled to learn 
 in what manner and with 'what consent the collection of Holy Scriptures 
 was first made and then enlarged and finally closed by the Churcl^. 
 Though the work is intended to be simple and popular in its method, the 
 author, for this veiy reason, has aimed at the strictest accuracy. 
 
 A GENERAL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE 
 
 ENGLISH BIBLE. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. ioj. (xi. 
 In the Introduction the author notices briefly the earliest vernacular 
 versions of the Bible, especially those in Anglo-Saxon. Chapter I. is oc- 
 
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 cupied with an account of the Manuscript English Bible from the 14th 
 century downwards ; and in Chapter II. is narrated, with many interest- 
 ing personal and other details, the External History of the Printed Bible. 
 In Clwpter III. is set forth the Internal History of the English Bible, 
 shewing to 'what extent the various English Translations war independent, 
 and to what extent the translators were indebted to earlier English and 
 foreign versions. In the A ppendices, among other interesting and valuable 
 matter, will be found "Specimens oj the Earlier and later Wycliffite 
 Versions f "Chronological List of Bibles;" "An Examination of Air. 
 Fronde's History of the English Bible." The Pall Mall Gazette calls 
 the work "A brief, scholarly, and, to a great extent, an original contribu- 
 tion to theological literature." 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, MANIFOLD AND ONE. 
 Six Sermons preached in Peterborough Cathedral. Crown 8vo. 
 2s. 6d. > 
 
 The Six Sermons contained in this volume are the first preached by 
 the author as a Canon of Peterborough Cathedral. The subjects are: — 
 /. " Life consecrated by the Ascension." II. "Many Gifts, One Spirit." 
 III. " The Gospel of the Resurrection." LV. "Sufficiency of God." V. 
 " 'Action the Test of Faith." VI. "Progress from the Confession of God." 
 The Nonconformist calls them '■'■Beautiful discourses, singularly devout 
 and tender." 
 
 THE GOSPEL OF THE RESURRECTION. Thoughts 
 on its Relation to Reason and History. Fourth Edition. Crown 
 8vo. 6s. 
 
 The present Essay is an endeavour to consider some of the elementary 
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 and Reason. The author endeavours to shew that a devout belief in the 
 Life of Christ is quite compatible with a broad view of the course of human 
 progress and a frank trust in the laws of our envn minds. In the third 
 edition the author has carefully reconsidered the whole argument, and by 
 the help of several kind critics has been enabled to correct some faults and 
 to remove some ambiguities, which had been overlooked before. He has 
 not henvever made any a/tempt to alter the general character of the book. 
 
 ON THE RELIGIOUS OFFICE OF THE UNIVER- 
 SITIES. Crown Svo. 4s. 6d. 
 
 " There is certainly, no man of our time — no man at least who has ob- 
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 those of Professor Westcott for largeness of views and comprehensiveness of 
 
 grasp There is 'wisdom, and truth, and thought enough, and a 
 
 harmony and mutual connection running through them all, which makes 
 the collection of more real value than many an ambitious treatise" — 
 Literary Churchman. 
 
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 Wilkins.— THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. An Essay, 
 by A.S. Wilkins, M.A., Professor of Latin in Owens College, 
 Manchester. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. $s. 6d. 
 
 This is the Hulseau Prize Essay for 1869. The subject proposed by 
 the Trustees was, "The Distinctive Features of Christian as compared 
 with Pagan Ethics." The author has tried to show that the Christian 
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 method, in purity and in poaver, as to compel us to assume for them an 
 origin, differing in kind from the origin of any purely human system, 
 '.'■ft would be difficult to praise too highly the spirit, the burden, the con- 
 clusions, or the scholarly finish of this beautiful Essay." — British Quarterly 
 Review. 
 
 Wilson.— RELIGIO CHEMICI. With a Vignette beauti- 
 fully engraved after a Design by Sir Noel Paton. By George 
 Wilson, M.D. Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. 
 
 "George Wilson," says the Preface to this volume, "had it in his heart 
 for many years to write a book corresponding to the Religio Medici of Sir- 
 Thomas Browne, .with the title Religio Chemici. Several of the Essays in 
 this volume were intended to form chapters of it, but the health and leisure 
 necessary to carry out his plans were nn>er attainable, and thus fragments 
 only of the designed work exist. These fragments, however, being in most 
 cases like finished gems 'Mailing to be set, some of them are nenv given in 
 a collected form to his friends and the public." — "A more fascinating 
 volume," the Spectator says, "has seldom fallen into our hands." 
 
 Wilson.— THE BIBLE STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE 
 MORE CORRECT UNDERSTANDING of the ENGLISH 
 TRANSLATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, BY RE- 
 FERENCE TO THE ORIGINAL HEBREW. By William 
 Wilson, D.D., Canon of Winchester. Second Edition, carefully 
 revised. 4to. 2$s. 
 " The author believes that the present work is the nearest approach to 
 a complete Concordance of every word in the original that has yet been 
 made: and as a Concordance, it may be found of great use to the Bible 
 student, while at the same time it serves the important object of furnishing 
 the means of comparing synonymous words, and of eliciting their precise 
 and distinctive meaning. The knendedge of the Hebrew language is not 
 absolutely necessary to the profitable use of the work. The plan of the 
 work is simple: every word occurring in the English Version is arranged 
 alphabetically, and under it is given the Hebrew word or words, with a 
 full explanation of their meaning, of which it is meant to be a translation, 
 and a complete list of the passages 'where it occurs. Eollmring the general 
 work is a complete Hebrew and English Index, which is, in effect, a 
 Hebrew-English Dictionary. 
 
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 Worship (The) of God and Fellowship among 
 
 M en. Sermons on Public Worship. By Professor Maurice, 
 and others. Fcap. Svo. 3*. 6d. 
 This volume consists of Six Sermons preached by various clergymen, 
 and although not addressed specially to any class, were suggested by recent 
 efforts to bring the members of the Working Class to our Churches. The 
 preachers were — Professor Maurice, Rev. 71 , J. Rowsell, Rev. J. LI. 
 Davies, Rev. D. J. Vaughan. 
 
 Yonge (Charlotte M.)— SCRIPTURE READINGS for 
 
 SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES. By Charlotte M. Yonge, 
 Author of " The Heir of Redclyffe. " Globe Svo. is. 6d. With 
 Comments. 3J. 6d. 
 
 Second Series. From Joshua to Solomon. Extra fcap. 8vo. 
 is. 6d. With Comments. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Third Series. The Kings and Prophets. Extra fcap. Svo., 
 is.bd., with Comments, 3s. 6d. 
 Actual need has led the author to endeavour to prepare a reading hook 
 convenient for study with children, containing the very words of the 
 Bible, with only a few expedient omissions, and arranged in Lessons of 
 such length as by experience she has found to suit with children's ordinary 
 power of accurate attentive interest. The verse form has been retained be- 
 cause of its convenience for children reading in class, and as more re- 
 sembling their Bibles ; but the poetical portions have been given in their 
 lines. Professor Huxley at a meeting of the London School-board, par- 
 ticularly mentioned the Selection made by Miss Yonge, as an example of 
 how selections might be made for School reading. " Her Comments are 
 models of their kind. " — Literary Churchman. 
 
 In crown Svo. cloth extra, Illustrated, price 4s. 6d. each Volume ; also 
 kept in morocco and calf bindings at moderate prices, and in 
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 MACMILLAN'S SUNDAY LIBRARY. 
 
 A Series of Original Works by Eminent Authors. 
 
 The Guardian says — "All Christian households owe a debt of gratitude 
 to Mr. Macmillan for that useful ' Sunday Library.'" 
 
 THE FOLLOWING VOLUMES ARE NOW READY: — 
 
 The Pupils of St. John the Divine. — By Charlotte 
 
 M. Yonge, Author of " The Heir of Redclyffe." 
 T/ie author first gives a full sketch of the life and work of the Apostle 
 himself, drawing the material from all the most trustworthy authorities, 
 sacred and profane; then follow the lives of his immediate disciples, Ignatius, 
 
MA CM ILL A N'S SUNDAY LIBRARY. 45 
 
 Quadra/us, Polycarp, and others; -which are succeeded by the lives of many 
 of their pupils. She then proceeds to sketch from their foundation the 
 history of the many churches planted or superintended by St. John and 
 ' his pupils, both in the East and West. In the last chapter is given an 
 account of the present aspect of the Churches of St. John, — the Seven 
 Churches of Asia mentioned in Revelations ; also those of Athens, of 
 Mines, of Lyons, and others in the West. " Young and old will be 
 equally refreshed and taught by these pages, in which nothing is dull, and 
 nothing is far-fetched. " — Churchman. 
 
 The Hermits. — By Canon Kingsley. 
 
 The volume contains the lives of some of the most remarkable early 
 Egyptian, Syrian, Persian, and Western hermits. The lives' are mostly 
 translations from the original biographies. "It is from first to last a 
 production full of interest, written with a liberal appreciation of what is 
 memorable for good in the lives of the Hermits, and with a wise forbear- 
 ance towards legends which may be due to the ignorance, and, no doubt, 
 also to the strong faith of the early chroniclers" — London Review. 
 
 Seekers after God. — Lives of Seneca, Epictetus, and 
 Marcus Aurelius. By the Rev. F. W. Farrar, M.A., F.R.S., 
 Head Master of Marlborough College. 
 
 In this volume the author seeks to record the lives, and gives copious 
 samples of the almost Christ-like utterances of, with perhaps the exception 
 of Socrates, "the best and holiest characters presented to us in the records 
 of antiquity." The volume contains portraits of Aurelius, Seneca, and 
 Antoninus Pius. " We can heartily recommend it as healthy in tone, 
 instructive, interesting, mentally and spiritually stimulating and nu- 
 tritiousi"— Nonconformist. 
 
 England's Antiphon. — By George Macdonald. 
 
 This volume deals chiefly with the lyric or song-form of English re- 
 ligious poetry, other kinds, however, being not infrequently introduced. 
 The author has sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from the 
 13th to the 19th centuries, from before Chaucer to Tennyson. He en- 
 deavours to accomplish his object by selecting the men who have produced 
 the finest religious poetry, selling forth the circumstances in which they 
 were placed, characterising the men themselves, critically estimating their 
 productions, and giving ample specimens of their best religious lyrics, and 
 quotations from larger poems, illustrating the religious feeling of the poets 
 or their times. "Dr. Macdonald has very ' successfully endeavoured to 
 bring together in his little book a whole series of the sweet singers of Eng- 
 land, and makes them raise, one after the other, their voices in praise oj 
 God. " — Guardian. 
 
 Great Christians of France : St. Louis and Calvin. 
 By M. Guizot. 
 
 From among French Catholics, M, Guizot has, in this volume, selected 
 
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 Louis, King of France in the \yh century, and among Protestants, Calvin 
 the Reformer in the 16th century, "as two earnest and illustrious repre- 
 sentatives of the Christian faith and lift, as well as of the loftiest thought 
 and purest morality of their country and generation." In setting forth 
 with considerable fulness the lives of these prominent and representative 
 Christian men, M. Guizot necessarily introduces much of the political and 
 religious history of the periods during which they lived. "A very interest- 
 ing book," says the Guardian. 
 
 Christian Singers of Germany. — By Catherine 
 
 WlNKWORTH. 
 
 In this volume the authoress gives an account of the principal hymn- 
 writers of Germany from the gth to the igth century, introducing ample 
 specimens from their best productions. In the translations, while the 
 English is perfectly idiomatic and harmonious, the characteristic differ- 
 ences of the poems have been carefully imitated, and the general style' and 
 metre retained. "Miss IVinkivorth's volume of this series is, according to 
 our view, the choicest production of her pen." — British Quarterly Review. 
 
 Apostles of Mediaeval Europe. — By the Rev. G. F. 
 Maclear, D.D., Head Master of King's College School, London. 
 
 In two Introductory Chapters the author notices some of the chief cha- 
 racteristics of the mediaval period itself; gives a graphic sketch of the de- 
 vastated state of Europe at tlie beginning of that period, and an interesting 
 account of the religions of the three great groups of vigorous barbarians — 
 the Celts, the Teutons, and the Sclaves — who had, wave after wave, over- 
 ftcnoed its surface. He then proceeds to sketch the lives and work of the 
 chief of the courageous men who devoted themselves to the stupendous task 
 of their conversion and civilization, during a period extending from the 
 <^th to the l^th century; such as St. Patrick, St. Columba, St. Colum- 
 bau/ts, St. Augustine of Canterbury, St. Boniface, St. Olaf, St. Cyril, 
 Raymond Sull, and others. "Air. Maclear will have done a great work 
 if his admirable little volume shall help to break up the dense ignorance 
 which is still prevailing among people at large." — Literary Churchman. 
 
 Alfred the Great. — By Thomas Hughes, Author of " Tom 
 
 Brown's School Days." Third Edition. 
 ' ' The time is come when we English can no longer stand by as in- 
 terested spectators only, but in which every one of our institutions will be 
 sifted with rigour, and will have to shew cause for its existence. .... 
 As a help in this search, this life of the typical English King is here 
 offered." Besides other illustrations in the volume, a Map of England is 
 prefixed, shewing its divisions about iooo A.D., as well as at the present 
 time. "Air. Hughes has indeed written a good book, bright and readable 
 we need hardly say, and of a very considerable historical value." — 
 Spectator. 
 
 Nations Around. — By Miss A. Keary. 
 
 This volume contains many details concerning the social and political 
 
MACMILLAN'S SUNDAY LIBRARY. 
 
 life, the religion, the superstitions, the literature, the architecture, the com- 
 merce, the industry, of the Nations around Palestine, an acquaintance -with 
 -which is necessary in order to a clear and full understanding of the history 
 of the Hebrew people. The authoress has brought to her aid all the most 
 recent investigations into the early history of these nations, referring fre- 
 quently to the fruitful excavations -which have brought to light the ruins 
 and hieroglyphic writings of many of their buried cities. "Miss Keary 
 has skilfully availed herself of the opportunity to write a pleasing and in- 
 structive book." — Guardian. "A valuable and interesting volume.'" 
 
 Illustrated Times. 
 
 St. Anselm.— By the Very Rev. R. W. Church, M.A., Dean 
 of St. Paul's. Second Edition. 
 In this biography of St. Anselm, -while the story of his life as a man, a 
 Christian, a clergyman, and a politician, is told impartially and fully, 
 much light is shed on the ecclesiastical and political history of the time 
 during -which he lived, and on the internal economy of the monastic estab- 
 lishments of the period. The author has drawn his materials from con- 
 temporary biographers and chroniclers, while at the same time he has 
 consulted the^ best recent authors who have treated of the man and his 
 time. "It is a sketch , by the hand of a piaster, with every line marked 
 by taste, learning, and real apprehension of the subject." — Pall Mall 
 Gazette. 
 
 Francis of Assisi.— By Mrs. Oliphant. 
 
 The life of this saint, the founder of the Franciscan order, and one oj 
 the most remarkable men of his time, illustrates some of the chief cha- 
 racteristics of the religious life of the Middle Ages. Much information is 
 given concerning the missionary labours of the saint and his companions, 
 as well as concerning the religious and monastic life of the time. Many 
 graphic details are introduced from the saint's contemporary biographers, 
 which she-w forth the prevalent beliefs of the period; and abundant samples 
 are given of St. Francis's own sayings, as well as a few specimens of his 
 simple tender hymns. "We are grateful to Mrs. Oliphant for a book of 
 much interest and pathetic beauty, a book which none can read without 
 being the better for it." — John Bull. 
 
 Pioneers and Founders; or, Recent Workers in the 
 Mission Field. By Charlotte M. Yonge, Author of "The 
 Heir of Redclyffe." With Frontispiece, and Vignette Portrait of 
 Bishop Heber. 
 
 The missionaries whose biographies are here given, are — John Eliot, 
 the Apostle of the Red Indians; David Brainerd, the Enthusiast ; Christ- 
 ian F.Schwartz, the Councillor of Tanjore; Henry Marlyn, the Scholar- 
 Missionary; William Carey and Joshua Marshman, the Scrampore Mis- 
 sionaries ; the Jitdson Family; the Bishops of Calcutta, — Thomas 
 Middleton, Reginald Heber, Daniel Wilson ; Samuel Marsden, the Aus- 
 tralian Chaplain and Friend of the Maori; John Williams, the Martyr 
 
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 of Erromango ; Allen Gardener, tlie Sailor Martyr; Charles Frederick 
 Jlfackeusie, the Martyr of Zambesi. " Likely to be one of the most popular 
 of the 'Sunday Library' volumes." — Literary Churchman. 
 
 Angelique Arnauld, Abbess of Port Royal. By 
 
 Frances Martin. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. 
 This new volume of the ' Sunday Library 1 contains the life of a very 
 remarkable woman founded on the best authorities. She was a Roman 
 Catholic Abbess who lived more than 200 years ago, whose life contained 
 much struggle and suffering. But if we look beneath the surface, we find 
 that sublime virtues are associated with her errors, there is something 
 admirable in everything she does, and the study of her history leads to a 
 continual enlargement of our own range of thought and sympathy. 
 
 THE "BOOK OF PRAISE" HYMNAL, 
 
 COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY 
 
 LORD SELBORNE. 
 
 Ln the following four forms : — 
 
 A. Beautifully printed in Royal 32mo., limp cloth, price 6d. 
 
 B. ,, ,, Small 18mo., larger type, cloth limp, Is. 
 
 C. Same edition on fine paper, cloth, Is. 6d. 
 
 Also an edition with Music, selected, harmonized, and composed 
 by JOHN HULL AH, in square 18mo., cloth, 3s. 6d. 
 
 The large acceptance which has been given to " The Book of Praise" 
 by all classes of Christian people encourages the Publishers in entertaining 
 the hope that this Hymnal, which is mainly selected from it, may be ex- 
 tensively used in .Congregations, and in some degree at least meet the 
 desires of those who seek uniformity in common worship as a means 
 torvards that unity which pious souls yearn after, and which our Lord 
 prayed for in behalf of his Church. "The office of a hymn is not to 
 teach controversial Theology, but to give the voice of song to practical 
 religion. No doubt, to do this, it must embody sound doctrine ; but it 
 ought to do so, not after the manner of the schools, but with the breadth, 
 freedom, and simplicity of the Fountain-head." On this principle has 
 Sir R. Palmer proceeded in the preparation of this book. 
 
 The arrangement adopted is the following : — 
 
 PART I. consists of Hymns arranged according to the subjects of the 
 Creed — "God the Creator," "Christ Incarnate," "Christ Crucified," 
 "Christ Risen," "Christ Ascended," "Christ's Kingdom and Judg- 
 ment" etc. 
 
 Part II. comprises Hymns arranged according to the subjects of the 
 Lord's Prayer. 
 
 Part III. Hymns for natural and sacred seasons. 
 
 Time are 320 Hymns in all. 
 
 Cambridge: — printed by j. palmer.