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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. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...they put the rudder in his hands; they bid him watch the compass and the stars, --but it is all a delegation of their power. He has no right to sail the ahip to any other than the port they wish to reach. They really steer the ship in him. He is their servant still, obeying the commandment which they gave him when they said, Guide us and help us find our way. But then the question comes whether with such an idea of the ministry as this, it is possible to think of it and speak of it as a divine institution, --as something instituted and ordained by God Himself. Why not? It all depends on where we let ourselves get into the habit of looking for the work of God and discovering the operations of His hands. If we can see God only in movements quite outside of the natural proceedings of humanity, then we shall hardly think of any minis-try as being divinely ordered, unless it come down to us in a chariot out of the sky, or else a hand be reached forth from heaven to rest upon the head of the selected priest. But if we thoroughly believe that God's activity is never more potent than when His children, full of the love and fear of Him, give Him the opportunity to work through them, then surely there can be no ordination more complete or solemn than that which draws forth from the host of worshipping and working Christians here one and there another to be in special ways that which they all are in the essence of their Christianity; to be, as Saint Paul says, helpers of their joy. Do you or I believe that the President of the United States is less divinely called to his high place than Henry the Eighth or Charles the First was set upon the throne of England. And yet the president is the people's servant, and the kings were tyrants. When from the depths...

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