Transcriber's Note:

1. Obvious misspellings and printing errors have been corrected.

2. Archaic word spellings have been retained.

3. List of books by the same author has been moved from the beginning to the end of the book.

4. Footnotes have been placed immediately following the paragraphs in which they are noted.

5. Notation for Footnote 4, which is missing in the original, has been supplied.

6. A word that is missing at the beginning of Footnote 8 has been supplied as (I).

7. Capitalized headings within chapters are running page headers.

8. Running page headers which are designated by * reflect subject matter that occurs within paragraphs in the original and are broken into paragraphs for the purpose of better readability in this document.

9. Scripture references (e.g., Mal. 2.1; Acts xx. 19; 2 Tim. 1.12; etc.) which appear as sidenotes in the original are placed within [ ] and immediately follow the quoted scripture or statement pertaining to scripture to which they refer.

10. Redundant book heading and redundant chapter headings have been omitted.

 


 

 

 

[Pg iii]

TO MY YOUNGER
BRETHREN

CHAPTERS ON PASTORAL LIFE AND WORK

BY THE RIGHT REV.

HANDLEY C.G. MOULE, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM


FOURTH EDITION

 

 

LONDON

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

27, PATERNOSTER ROW

1902


[Pg iv]

Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.


[Pg v]

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.


[Pg vi]

"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.


[Pg vii]

PREFACE.

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

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