What shame will cover that minister as with a mantle when he thinks what the Christian ministry might be made, and then takes home to himself what he has made it! Let any minister shut himself in with his communion-roll and his visiting- book before each returning communion season, and there will be one worthy communicant at least in the congregation: one who will have little appetite all that week for any other food but the broken Body and the shed Blood of his Redeemer.

But these are professional matters that the outside world has nothing to do with and would not understand.

Only, let all young men who would have evangelical humility absolutely secured and sealed to them,--let them come and be ministers.

Just as all young men who would have any satisfaction in life, any sense of work well done and worthy of reward, any taste of a goal attained and an old age earned, let them take to anything in all this world but the evangelical pulpit and its accompanying pastorate.
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But humility is not a grace of the pulpit and the pastorate only.