noured as
to receive many of these confidences, he acquires a skill in laying
his finger on the very pulse of his hearers' deepest life which
nothing else can give.

FOOTNOTES:

[54] An indication of the intensity with which St. Paul's mind worked
upon the subject of the ministry is to be found in the number and
variety of his metaphors for it. The following are those which I have
noted, but there may be more--nurse (1 Thess. ii. 7), father (1 Cor. iv.
15), gardener (1 Cor. iii. 6), labourer (1 Cor. iii. 9), builder (1 Cor.
iii. 10), servant (1 Cor. iv. 1), bondman (2 Tim. ii. 24), steward (1
Cor. iv. 1), ambassador (Eph. vi. 20), soldier (1 Tim. vi. 12), herald
(1 Tim. ii. 7), shepherd (Acts xx. 28), workman (2 Tim. ii. 15), athlete
(1 Tim. iv. 7), vessel (2 Tim. ii. 21).

[55] "Go where you can do most _for_ men, not where you can get most
_from_ men.

"Be more concerned about your ability than about your opportunity, and
about your walk with God than either.

"Your sphere is where you are most needed.

"There is no place without its difficulties: by removing you may change
them, it may be you will increase them; but you cannot escape
them."--PREDIGER.

[56] "A sermon which costs little is worth as much as it has cost. Yet
measure not the value of the sermon by the length and hardness of your
labour."--DUPANLOUP.

[57] The first Sunday I was in America, I worshipped in the churches of
Rev. Dr. W.M. Taylor and Rev. Dr. John Hall, who are, I suppose, the two
most eminent ministers of New York; and I was astonished to hear both of
them intimate that they would visit in certain streets during the week.
There are no ministers anywhere more immersed than these in every kind
of public duty; yet they find time for regular pastoral visitation. On
coming home, I mentioned this fact to an equally eminent minister in my
own country. "Well," said he, "when I came to the city, the elders of my
congregation advised me not to visit, and I followed their advice; but
it was the worst advice I ever got."

[58] Dr. Marcus Dods.

[59] "Get others to talk: what a man says to you has more influence upon
him than all you can say to him.

"It is not the time of sickness so much as the time of convalescence
that decides the future life. Remember this, and seize opportunities."
--PREDIGER.

[60] "Much of the Gospels is taken up with conversations between Christ
and individuals. Teaching so startling and difficult as His, with s