"The office is the highest in the world."-EMERSON. While swings the sea, while mists the mountains shroud, BOSTON GEO. H. ELLIS, 141 FRANKLIN STREET 1889 Men's religious needs were never so intense as now, and the minister who strives to meet them will not find that the pulpit has a loosening hold on the people.— A. P. PEABODY, D.D. Never was there a greater call in all parts of this country for thoroughly equipped clergymen than now, and never was the position given to such clergymen more honorable and influential.-EX-PRESIDENT ANDREW D. WHITE. The pulpit should be a mount of vision. The living soul utters oracles there.-O. B. FROTHINGHAM. As to the Christian ministry to-day, in its better and freer forms, it is easy to see that it answers thoroughly the three fundamental conditions of an attractive and noble calling: (1) the line of promotion in it is open indefinitely; (2) it gives an American a great opportunity; and (3) it compels a man to enlarge his life from year to year, even from day to day. Indeed, I should say in addition to this that it seems to me there is no other calling open to a young man which combines in the preliminary studies by which one enters into its exercise, so much of all those lines of study, thought, and forelook which are most interesting to young men of courage.EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D. Material well-being has wonderfully increased, but it was never plainer than it is at the present time that "man does not live by bread alone." The calling of the preacher is more difficult now than it ever was; but it is also loftier, and it ought to be more attractive.— President ChARLES W. ELIOT. |