The Value of the Study of Intellectual Philosophy to the Minister: An Essay, Read Before the Cambridge Association of Ministers, February 9, 1869 (Classic Reprint)
The Value of the Study of Intellectual Philosophy to the Minister: An Essay, Read Before the Cambridge Association of Ministers, February 9, 1869 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Value of the Study of Intellectual Philosophy to the Minister: An Essay, Read Before the Cambridge Association of Ministers, February 9, 1869 The preacher, unlike the lawyer, has no opponent before him to watch his statements and question him at the moment. This evil, and it is a great one, he may counteract largely by pursuing in his retirement studies suited to make him guarded and accurate in his habits of thought and his modes of expression. It is said Chief Justice Parsons, after the exhaustion of the ...
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Excerpt from The Value of the Study of Intellectual Philosophy to the Minister: An Essay, Read Before the Cambridge Association of Ministers, February 9, 1869 The preacher, unlike the lawyer, has no opponent before him to watch his statements and question him at the moment. This evil, and it is a great one, he may counteract largely by pursuing in his retirement studies suited to make him guarded and accurate in his habits of thought and his modes of expression. It is said Chief Justice Parsons, after the exhaustion of the bench, would sometimes take up a prob lem in mathematics, and find, at the same time, recreation and new strength from this change of mental occupation. It is good for the preacher to gather fresh energy by an occasional adventure into paths aside from his own beaten track. Among these none will reward him with clearer views and a higher spiritual zest than the science of the immortal intellect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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