nt "meekness of wisdom."

RIDLEY HALL, CAMBRIDGE,
_April 22nd, 1892_.

"_Servant of God, be fill'd
With Jesu's love alone;
Upon a sure foundation build,
On Christ the corner-stone;
By faith in Him abide,
Rejoicing with His saints;
To Him with confidence, when tried,
Make known all thy complaints._"

MORAVIAN HYMN-BOOK.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

_THE SECRET WALK WITH GOD_ (i.).
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Need of watching and prayer over three departments of
a Minister's life--The secret department--Temptations
in it from work--From solitude--Secret Devotion--The
Morning Watch--Physical precautions--Evening
hours--A Minister's prayers must sometimes
forget the Ministry--This will be to the advantage of
the Ministry--"_Tell Him all_" 1

CHAPTER II.

_THE SECRET WALK WITH GOD_ (ii.).

Secret intercourse with God the life of a Minister's life--The
Example of Jesus Christ--Testimony of von
Machtholf--Special need of divine communion at
the present day--The cry for effort and enterprize--Secularizing
theories of religion and the
Ministry--A call to young English Clergymen--A
caution from Laodicea--Study of the Holy Scriptures--"The
New Testament about twice a week"--What
says the Ordinal?--M. Henri Lasserre on
Devotional Literature and the Gospels--Study the
Bible unprofessionally--Bridges' quotation from
Witsius--Ridley in the Orchard 21

CHAPTER III.

_SECRET STUDY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES._

A fragmentary chapter--Higher Criticism--A technical and innocent
term--Actual assertions of certain critics--"Do not follow this
Book; follow Christ"--Weigh facts before theories--Testimony of
Nature and History to Scripture--The Duke of Argyll in the
_Nineteenth Century_--Prediction--Problem of the Human Knowledge
of Jesus Christ--Current fulfilments of Prophecy--Methods of Bible
Study--The plough--The spade--Specimen of spade-husbandry, in a
Church Congress Study of the Epistle to the Philippians 45

CHAPTER IV.

_THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS_ (i.).

Secret Communion with God must _accompany_ everything
else--We are watched--Self-respect--Consistency largely means
Considerateness--"A consistent gentleman"--The Tongue--St
Augustine's couplet for the dinner-