Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N. J. |
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LETTER I. Thus saith the Lord of hosts , Consider your ways . — Haggai i . 5 .
INTRODUCTORY . MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND : -You are soon , with the
permission of Providence , to enter the pulpit , and to engage in the active duties
of that ...
LETTER I. Thus saith the Lord of hosts , Consider your ways . — Haggai i . 5 .
INTRODUCTORY . MY DEAR YOUNG FRIEND : -You are soon , with the
permission of Providence , to enter the pulpit , and to engage in the active duties
of that ...
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I am aware that many very worthy men entertain strong prejudices against all
formal precepts or exhortations on the subject of manners, and are ready to
consider them as worse than useless. These prejudices arise from various
sources.
I am aware that many very worthy men entertain strong prejudices against all
formal precepts or exhortations on the subject of manners, and are ready to
consider them as worse than useless. These prejudices arise from various
sources.
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I never met with a man of tolerable manners himself, who did not consider the
subject as very important, and worthy of the diligent attention of every one who
desired to be acceptable and useful to his fellow Imen. The prejudices of others ...
I never met with a man of tolerable manners himself, who did not consider the
subject as very important, and worthy of the diligent attention of every one who
desired to be acceptable and useful to his fellow Imen. The prejudices of others ...
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... of it have been sometimes taken . No man in his senses considers the use of
our daily food as improper or unnecessary , because the votaries of sensual
indulgence have ransacked all the stores of ingenious refinement , to pamper the
...
... of it have been sometimes taken . No man in his senses considers the use of
our daily food as improper or unnecessary , because the votaries of sensual
indulgence have ransacked all the stores of ingenious refinement , to pamper the
...
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There are others, who, whenever we speak of appropriate clerical manners,
consider us as designing to recommend that habitual restraint and
Sanctimoniousness of demeanor, which approaches to a sort of professional
dissimulation.
There are others, who, whenever we speak of appropriate clerical manners,
consider us as designing to recommend that habitual restraint and
Sanctimoniousness of demeanor, which approaches to a sort of professional
dissimulation.
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Page 205 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 304 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Page 34 - That gentleness therefore, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value.
Page 362 - I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life...
Page 73 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 73 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 74 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.
Page 167 - The more conscientious preachers, the Bible men, they who talk about principle, and doing to others as you would that they should do unto you,— how could they fail to recognize him, by far the greatest preacher of them all, with the Bible in his life and in his acts, the embodiment of principle, who actually carried out the golden rule?
Page 245 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 71 - A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth ; and a word spoken in due season, how good is it,
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| Title | Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N. J. Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform |
| Author | Samuel Miller |
| Contributor | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Board of Publication |
| Publisher | Presbyterian board of publication, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 12 May 2006 |
| ISBN | 0598342400, 9780598342409 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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