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Excerpt from The Christian Ministry: An Address Delivered at the Annual Commencement of the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Virginia, June 24, 1869
Our doings here to-day may be very unimposing' in appearance, and unimportant in the estimation of the world, yet in reality may have great significance and interest. A11 right-minded and large-thinking persons, Who study the highest interests of men, the relations of the. Different classes of society to one another, and of all to the other world - together with the many and complex causes Which go to make up: the great sum total of human lot and destiny - must see and feel that What vitally concerns the ministry of the Gospel must have an interest Wide as the world and lasting as eternity. Religion lies at the founda tion of everything good and noble in individual man and in human society, and the ministers of religion, therefore, must be a_ class of men With Whose char acter and prin ciples the welfare of the world must rise or fall.
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