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"Servant of God, be fill'd With Jesu's love alone; Upon a sure
foundation build, On Christ the corner-stone; By faith in Him abide,
Rejoicing with His saints; To Him with confidence, when tried, Make
known all thy complaints."
MORAVIAN HYMN-BOOK.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE SECRET WALK WITH GOD (i.). PAGE
Need of watching and prayer over three departments of a Minister's
life--The secret department--Temptations in it from work--From
solitude--Secret Devotion--The Morning Watch--Physical
precautions--Evening hours--A Minister's prayers must sometimes
forget the Ministry--This will be to the advantage of the Ministry--"Tell
Him all" 1
CHAPTER II.
THE SECRET WALK WITH GOD (ii.).
Secret intercourse with God the life of a Minister's life--The Example
of Jesus Christ--Testimony of von Machtholf--Special need of divine

communion at the present day--The cry for effort and
enterprize--Secularizing theories of religion and the Ministry--A call to
young English Clergymen--A caution from Laodicea--Study of the
Holy Scriptures--"The New Testament about twice a week"--What says
the Ordinal?--M. Henri Lasserre on Devotional Literature and the
Gospels--Study the Bible unprofessionally--Bridges' quotation from
Witsius--Ridley in the Orchard 21
CHAPTER III.
SECRET STUDY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
A fragmentary chapter--Higher Criticism--A technical and innocent
term--Actual assertions of certain critics--"Do not follow this Book;
follow Christ"--Weigh facts before theories--Testimony of Nature and
History to Scripture--The Duke of Argyll in the Nineteenth
Century--Prediction--Problem of the Human Knowledge of Jesus
Christ--Current fulfilments of Prophecy--Methods of Bible Study--The
plough--The spade--Specimen of spade-husbandry, in a Church
Congress Study of the Epistle to the Philippians 45
CHAPTER IV.
THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS (i.).
Secret Communion with God must accompany everything else--We are
watched--Self-respect--Consistency largely means Considerateness--"A
consistent gentleman"--The Tongue--St Augustine's couplet for the
dinner-table--The Clergy-House, its opportunities and risks--The duty
of Example--Is it remembered as it used to be?--"For their sakes I
sanctify Myself"--"Others" and their claims on
us--Manner--Temper--Simeon's patience--The Secret of the Presence
79
CHAPTER V.
THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS (ii.).

"Take heed unto thyself"--Relations with Woman--Christian
chivalry--And Christian caution--Special difficulties--"Know
thyself"--Celibacy--The Clergyman's Wife--The problem of
means--The Clergyman and money--Pecuniary intemperance--Accurate
accounts--Investment circulars--"Lay not up for yourselves" 101
CHAPTER VI.
THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS (iii.).
Curate and Incumbent--A Chancellor on Curates--The ideal
Incumbent--No Incumbent perfect--And no parish perfectly
content--Loyal watchfulness needed accordingly--The Curate's
Party--"The lost grace, humility"--Subordination--Take sides against
yourself--A letter to The Record on Curates' grievances. 123
CHAPTER VII.
PASTOR IN PARISH (i.).
A boundless subject--Visiting--All-important--Prepare for the round
with prayer--Method--Brevity but not hurry--An example--Courtesy--It
must be impartial--Visitation of the sick--Its special
demands--Punctuality always a duty--Use of the Bible--The advantage
of coming as "the Clergyman"--Mistaken for the undertaker--Come to
the point--Lying in wait for the occasion--Happy rebukes to timid
reticence 147
CHAPTER VIII.
PASTOR IN PARISH (ii.).
Teach as you go--Urgent need of teaching--About Christ--And the Holy
Spirit--And Sacraments--Common mistakes about the teaching of the
Church--Sin--Evidences--Recollections of a visiting round--The retired
tradesman--The sceptical blacksmith--The invalid artizan--The
civil-servant--The consumptive--The dying printer--The cripple--Aged

poor saints--Saddening visits--Humbling memories--A bright
conversion at eighty-two 173
CHAPTER IX.
THE CLERGYMAN AND THE PRAYER BOOK.
"As bad as inspired"--Imperfections in the Book--Yet it is
priceless--Spirituality of the Prayer Book--What it takes for granted in
the worshipper--A remarkable reason for secession--The Prayer Book
as a weapon--Its Scripturality--Its compilers jealous for the Word of
God--Ministerial use of the Prayer Book--Put yourself into it--We are
not to preach the prayers--Yet we are to pray them--Reading of the
Lessons--Baptism--Marriage--Burial--The Holy
Communion--Reverence--Of what sort--Instruction-addresses on the
Prayer Book--"Less worship" 201
CHAPTER X.
PREACHING (i.).
The Pulpit a central point in the Ministry--Mutual influence of
"parish-work" and preaching--"Truth through personality"--Let us
"labour in the Word"--"Litho Sermons"--Addison's village-parson and
his sermons--Attractive preaching--Is a duty--Audibility--Of the right
sort--Good English--Why to be cultivated--Mr Spurgeon's
style--French hearers of an English preacher--Good effects on his
style--"Written or extempore?"--Length--Action 225
CHAPTER XI.
PREACHING (ii.).
Further remarks on Attractiveness--And, in passing, on Ministerial
Considerateness--This is to be practised in preaching--As well as in
other functions--Attractiveness to be guarded by
Faithfulness--Requisites to attractiveness--"Preach the Gospel earnestly,

interestingly, fully"--Jesus Christ is the Gospel--Personal conviction the
essence of Earnestness--"Matter-of-Fact"--Interest sustained by
anecdote and illustration--But still more by intelligibility and
practicality--Expository sermons--Fulness in the message--Jesus Christ
for us--And in us--The Holy Spirit must work with the Word 249
CHAPTER XII.
PREACHING (iii.).
Notes from a Sermon-Lecture--On diction, arrangement, fidelity to the
text, proportion of parts, accuracy--On statements about revelation,
justification, faith, grace--A paper in The Churchman on Old
Sermons--Be a preacher indeed, whatever be the fashion of the
time--The Directory of 1645--Its instructions on "the Preaching of the
Word"--Spiritual Power in Preaching--How sought and
received--Farewell 273
Fordington Pulpit 301

"What contradictions meet In Ministers' employ! It is a bitter sweet, A
sorrow full of joy; No other post affords a place For equal honour or
disgrace"
OLNEY HYMNS.
"The Interpreter had Christian into a private Room, and bid his Man
open a Door; the which when he had done, Christian saw