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Title: Preacher and PrayerAuthor: Edward M. BoundsRelease date: October 17, 2020 [eBook #63486]Most recently updated: October 18, 2024Language: EnglishCredits: E-text prepared by Brian Wilson, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
Title: Preacher and Prayer
Author: Edward M. Bounds
Author: Edward M. Bounds
Release date: October 17, 2020 [eBook #63486]Most recently updated: October 18, 2024
Language: English
Credits: E-text prepared by Brian Wilson, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
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PREACHER ANDPRAYERE. M. BOUNDSWashington, Ga.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
E. M. BOUNDSWashington, Ga.
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.
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
Copyright 1907byE. M. BOUNDS.Copyright now owned byTHE CHRISTIAN WITNESS CO.
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 back 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.
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 back 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.