[Bunyan Characters - Third Series by Alexander Whyte]@TWC D-Link bookBunyan Characters - Third Series CHAPTER XX--MR 9/18
Humility will advance you in your special science; while, all the time, and at the end of time, she will be more to you than all the other sciences taken together.
And since I have spoken of A Kempis, take this motto for all your life out of A Kempis, as the great and good Fenelon did, and it will guide you to the goal: _Ama nescia et pro nihilo reputari_. 4.
But of all the men in the whole world it is ministers who should simply, as Peter says, be clothed with humility, and that from head to foot.
And, first as divinity students, and then as pastors and preachers, we who are ministers have advantages and opportunities in this respect quite peculiar and private to ourselves.
For, while other students are spending their days and their nights on the ancient classics of Greece and Rome, the student who is to be a minister is buried in the Psalms, in the Gospels, and in the Epistles.
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