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... Ministry . - Preaching in an Age of Excitement.- Literature not constructed for the Masses ; Consequent Peril to the Pulpit . - Resemblances between the Pulpit and the Greek Drama . - Popular Revolutions often Independent of the Edu ...
... Ministry . - Preaching in an Age of Excitement.- Literature not constructed for the Masses ; Consequent Peril to the Pulpit . - Resemblances between the Pulpit and the Greek Drama . - Popular Revolutions often Independent of the Edu ...
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... Ministry ; Illustrations of the Want of it . - Peril of an Educated Min- istry . - Study of Books conducive to Self - appreciation • . 111 - LECTURE IX . Impracticable Plans of Reading . - Selection of Authors . - Worthless Books ...
... Ministry ; Illustrations of the Want of it . - Peril of an Educated Min- istry . - Study of Books conducive to Self - appreciation • . 111 - LECTURE IX . Impracticable Plans of Reading . - Selection of Authors . - Worthless Books ...
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... learned from the answer to the question , " How do lawyers who gain their cases deal with juries ? How do they work differ- ently in addressing a bench of judges ? " If it were possible , I would have every minister of the gospel.
... learned from the answer to the question , " How do lawyers who gain their cases deal with juries ? How do they work differ- ently in addressing a bench of judges ? " If it were possible , I would have every minister of the gospel.
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... minister of the gospel practice law . Some of our ablest preachers have been subjected to that preliminary discipline , and never without acknowledging their obligations to it through a lifetime . How are town - meetings governed by a ...
... minister of the gospel practice law . Some of our ablest preachers have been subjected to that preliminary discipline , and never without acknowledging their obligations to it through a lifetime . How are town - meetings governed by a ...
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... ministry , blessed of God , they are sure to occur . A pulpit not adjusted to them is like a system of husbandry not planned for a harvest . One of the saddest sights in the history of the pulpit is that of a ministry which regards ...
... ministry , blessed of God , they are sure to occur . A pulpit not adjusted to them is like a system of husbandry not planned for a harvest . One of the saddest sights in the history of the pulpit is that of a ministry which regards ...
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Page 241 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 165 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookerybook? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookerybook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where...
Page 241 - ... minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.