Letters to Unknown Friends
by Lyman Abbott
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781151574084
Paperback|9781151574084
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...city, and in the great metropolis; and sometimes to churches that were decidedly poor; never to a wealthy church. And I have never found a church that failed to respond to this view of our relationship, or to provide according to its means for my support. When it could not provide enough, I remembered Paul's example and provided what I needed by my own industry. To be thus freed from the drudgery which is a part of most industrial vocations, and to give one's self with an untroubled mind and undivided attention simply to doing good, entirely regardless of the question whether it pays, is--at least so I have found it--a delightful life. It is true that the minister will be sure to have some unreasonable parishioners. So the lawyer will have some unreasonable clients, the doctor some unreasonable patients, the merchant some unreasonable customers, and the farmer some weather that will seem to him very unreasonable. And the minister will not always be reasonable himself. But, making full allowance for all hindrances and drawbacks, the life of the ministry, rightly taken, is a very joyous one. The minister who does not find it so had better look at home for the fault before looking anywhere else. This life is closed to you. What then? There is no time to waste in self-pity. There are other doors of Christian service open to you. The same mail which brought me your letter brought me one from a layman whose daily life is very arduous, who lives in a small village and is a member of an inconspicuous church. One sentence of his letter would be worth printing on every church calendar and framed and hung up in every parish house: The World Has Seen What God And Martin Luther Have Done, What God And John Calvin Have Done, What God And John Wesley Have Done, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781151574084 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151574082 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 78 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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