by E.M. Bounds
Preface
Various Quotes
Recreation to a minister must be as
whetting is with the mower - that is,to be used only so far as is
necessary for his work. May a physician in plague-time take any more relaxation
or recreation than is necessary for his life, when so many are expecting his
help in a case of life and death? Will you stand by and see sinners gasping
under the pangs of death, and say: "God doth not require me to make myself a
drudge to save them?" Is this the voice of ministerial or Christian compassion
or rather of sensual laziness and diabolical cruelty?
- RICHARD BAXTER.
Misemployment of time is injurious to
the mind. In illness I have looked bock with self-reproach on days spent in my
study: I was wading through history and poetry and monthly journals, but I was
in my study! Another man's trifling is notorious to all observers, but what am
I doing? Nothing, perhaps, that has a reference to the spiritual good of my
congregation. Be much in retirement and prayer. Study the honor and glory of
your Master.
- RICHARD CECIL.
Three things make a divine - prayer,
meditation,temptation.
- LUTHER.
If you do not pray, God will probably
lay you aside from your ministry as he did me, to teach you to pray. Remember
Luther's maxim, "To have prayed well is to have studied well." Get your text
from God, your thoughts, your words.
- MCCHEYNE.
The CHRISTIAN WITNESS Co.
CHICAGO AND BOSTON
1911