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Excerpt from The Claims of the Ministry on Strong Men
By strong men, I mean persons oi intellectual power, who are at the same time persons of high moral ideals and intense moral enthusiasms. By the ministry, I mean the service of a Christian preacher in some one of the various churches of our time. If our men of intellectual power are not at the same time men of high moral ideals and intense moral enthusiasms, the ministry has no claims upon them. It does not want them; they are not fitted to teach religion because they are not experts in it. They are not experts because they are without first-hand, abundant, and joyous knowledge of it. Such per sons become, by their intellectual power, a damag ing in?uence upon religion; they lead the public to think that the intellect has little or nothing to do with religion; they stimulate a revolt against reason and a return to fanaticism. It must be repeated, therefore, that our strong man is one whose chief interest in life is moral and Spiritual. He is one Whose governing aspiration is for excellence of being, high bearing in his relations with men and with God. A young man of intellectual power may be sure of his fitness for the ministry if his whole heart kindles into ?ame as he reads and ponders these words: Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
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