Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... -Contributing to charitable and pious objects-- Undue solicitude respecting temporal support im- proper -- Subscriptions or donations not to be so- page . 382-420 licited - If possible to avoid it , pastors should xii.
... -Contributing to charitable and pious objects-- Undue solicitude respecting temporal support im- proper -- Subscriptions or donations not to be so- page . 382-420 licited - If possible to avoid it , pastors should xii.
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... proper clerical manners , it is by no means my purpose to recommend those starch- ed , artificial , formal manners , which display constant effort and constraint ; or those osten- tatious , splendid , and gracefully refined manners ...
... proper clerical manners , it is by no means my purpose to recommend those starch- ed , artificial , formal manners , which display constant effort and constraint ; or those osten- tatious , splendid , and gracefully refined manners ...
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... proper track for learn- ing : which alone is the humble office I assign to this little volume . - Parents cannot always teach it ; for frequently they possess it not themselves ; and even when they do possess it , it is incomparably ...
... proper track for learn- ing : which alone is the humble office I assign to this little volume . - Parents cannot always teach it ; for frequently they possess it not themselves ; and even when they do possess it , it is incomparably ...
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... proper for a min- ister of the gospel ? Ought the manners of a clergyman perceptibly to differ from those of a well - bred man of a secular profession ? I think they ought . That is to say , I am clearly of the opinion that they ought ...
... proper for a min- ister of the gospel ? Ought the manners of a clergyman perceptibly to differ from those of a well - bred man of a secular profession ? I think they ought . That is to say , I am clearly of the opinion that they ought ...
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... proper sense of christian and minis- terial duty , he will be more or less embarrassed ; and , if he attempt to be faithful in reproof or remonstrance , may , perhaps , do more harm than good . Many a minister of Christ , in these ...
... proper sense of christian and minis- terial duty , he will be more or less embarrassed ; and , if he attempt to be faithful in reproof or remonstrance , may , perhaps , do more harm than good . Many a minister of Christ , in these ...
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