Transcriber's Note:
1. Obvious misspellings and printing errors have been corrected.
FOURTH EDITION
LONDON
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27, PATERNOSTER ROW
1902
Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.
TO
MY DEAR BROTHER AND VICAR,
THE REV. JOHN BARTON, M.A.,
INCUMBENT OF TRINITY CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE,
AND RURAL DEAN,
AND TO MY DEAR BROTHERS AND FRIENDS,
THE PRESENT AND PAST STUDENTS
OF RIDLEY HALL, CAMBRIDGE,
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
H.C.G.M.
"Give those who teach pure hearts and wise,
Faith, hope, and love, all warm'd by prayer;
Themselves first training for the skies
They best will raise their people there."
Armstrong.
The following pages do not appear to needany extended preface; their topic is setforth in the first lines of the first chapter.With what success it has been handled isanother matter.
But as a writer reviews his own words, it isinevitable that some sort of envoi should presentitself to his mind. In this case the envoi seemsto me to be the vital necessity of personalholiness in the Christian Minister, in order tothe right working of the Christian Ministry;a personal holiness which shall be no mereform moulded from without but a life developedinto manifestation and action from within.
Never did the Church of Christ more needto remember this than at the present day.[Pg viii]The strongest surface currents of the age areagainst it; alike that of unregulated, hurrying,indiscriminate