Excerpt from The Christian Minister and His Duties

If a ministry of close on fifty years, during about a score of which it was my duty to lecture to Students of Divinity on their future work, do not plead an apology for the following pages, I fear I have no better one to offer. They would never have seen the light but for the repeatedly expressed desire of former students.

In their preparation for the press I have aimed less at the formal completeness of a scientific treatise than at practical utility. I have tried to keep in mind the actual requirements of candidates for sacred office and of the junior clergy, not in one Church only, but in every evangelical communion. For the duties of a Christian Minister are in all Protestant communities fundamentally the same. Even in details they approximate more closely than our superficial divisions might lead us, on a casual survey, to perceive. But, while keeping present-day conditions steadily in view, I have not forgotten that, like every other theological discipline, Practical Theology must draw its guiding principles from the New Testament, and derive illustration from its own past in the Christian centuries.

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