Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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Page vii
... ready to administer comfort to the anxious and inquiring - Excessive haste to pub- lish the exercises of the anxious -- Conversing too much at a time - Urging to a hasty profession of religion - The use of technical language in ...
... ready to administer comfort to the anxious and inquiring - Excessive haste to pub- lish the exercises of the anxious -- Conversing too much at a time - Urging to a hasty profession of religion - The use of technical language in ...
Page xiv
... ready to perform the appropriate duties of religion , but never to force them in mixed companies-- Trou- blesome aud obtrusive strangers to be shunned in travelling - In distant excursions , all useful in- formation should be carefully ...
... ready to perform the appropriate duties of religion , but never to force them in mixed companies-- Trou- blesome aud obtrusive strangers to be shunned in travelling - In distant excursions , all useful in- formation should be carefully ...
Page 16
... ready to consider them as worse than useless . These prejudices arise from various sources . In some they are the result of IGNORANCE . Many pious , conscientious men , and even some clergymen , are so totally ignorant of the world ; so ...
... ready to consider them as worse than useless . These prejudices arise from various sources . In some they are the result of IGNORANCE . Many pious , conscientious men , and even some clergymen , are so totally ignorant of the world ; so ...
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... friends , commands a more ready obedience , when they are clothed in an attractive garb , and speak in alluring ac- cents . That the very same words , which , D when uttered by some , are intolerably offensive , when 29.
... friends , commands a more ready obedience , when they are clothed in an attractive garb , and speak in alluring ac- cents . That the very same words , which , D when uttered by some , are intolerably offensive , when 29.
Page 32
... ready to enter the pulpit . It is , as I have already said , a gra- dual work . In the conflict with your old ha- bits , and your unhallowed feelings , you will have many a painful struggle , and will proba- bly suffer many a ...
... ready to enter the pulpit . It is , as I have already said , a gra- dual work . In the conflict with your old ha- bits , and your unhallowed feelings , you will have many a painful struggle , and will proba- bly suffer many a ...
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