Excerpt from The Educational Ideal in the Ministry: The Lyman Beecher Lectures, at Yale University, in the Year 1908
The following addresses were delivered as the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale University in March, 1908, and a few weeks later were repeated in a somewhat different form as the Earle Lectures at the Pacific Theological Seminary of Berkeley, California. They contain no information on any subject; but are designed to give - what is perhaps the only gift one man can really make to another - a point of view.
Many ministers to-day have a dim and baffled feeling that their work is somehow not fully correlated with the life of the modern world. They stand like David when he had rejected Saul's armor and had not yet found his own - bravely facing the gigantic form, but uncertain as to the method of attack. They are striving to define their own calling afresh and adjust it to novel and rapidly changing conditions. Must the prophet decrease, because the teacher has increased? The questions forced upon us by the obvious reinterpretation of the minister's function are of interest not to clergymen only, but to every believer in Christianity and to every student of social and moral progress.
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