nistry, to be not
merely a hard-working but a learned clergy. To those great questions
which both stir and disquiet men, we are bound to bring that knowledge
which will give us a claim to be listened to. 'Know as much as you can;'
that ought to be the rule to which an educated clergyman should hold
himself forever tied. A clergyman ought to be a _student_, a reader and
a thinker, to the very end."--DEAN CHURCH.

[64] Richard Baxter confesses that he deliberately preached over the
heads of his people once a year, for the purpose of keeping them humble
and showing them what their minister could do every Sunday of the year,
if he chose!

[65] "A sentence of Pascal would sometimes shoot more light and life
through a sermon than all the commentators upon the text since the days
of Noah."--PRINCIPAL RAINY.

[66] Rev. Dr. Henderson, of Crieff, told me a story which illustrates in
an amusing yet significant way the change which passed over the
religious mind of Scotland in the beginning of the present century. His
father, the late Rev. Dr. Henderson, of Glasgow, when newly licensed,
was preaching, on the Saturday before a communion, for an extremely
Moderate minister of the dignified and pompous school. "I do not know,
Mr. Henderson," said the latter, "what is the difference between you
evangelicals and us; but I suppose it is that you preach doctrines,
while we preach duties." "I do not know about that," said Mr. Henderson;
"we preach duties too." "Well," said the old man, "for example, my
action sermon to-morrow is to be on lying; and my divisions are--first,
the nature of lying; secondly, the sin of lying; and thirdly, the
consequences of lying: now what could you add to that?" "Well," replied
Mr. Henderson, "I would add two things--first, 'Lie not one to another,
seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds,' and secondly,
'Putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour; for we
are members one of another.'" "Mr. Henderson, these suggestions are
admirable: I shall add them to my discourse!"

APPENDIX

AN ORDINATION CHARGE

APPENDIX.

AN ORDINATION CHARGE.[67]

I should like to connect what I have to say with a text of Scripture,
which you may remember as a motto for this occasion. Take, then, that
pastoral exhortation to a young minister in 1 Tim. iv. 16: "Take heed
unto thyself, and to the doctrine; continue in them; for in doing this
thou shalt both save thyself and them that hea