Righteousness And the Pulpit a Discourse Preached in the First Church Dorchest
Righteousness And the Pulpit a Discourse Preached in the First Church Dorchest
Nathaniel Hall
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But its value depends upon its quality, — upon the basis on which it rests. That harmony, methinks, is of but little worth whose continuance is conditioned upon the minister's repressing in aught his honest convictions, — which a manly, outspoken word can break. At any rate, the minister has a higher work than to keep peace. He was not ordained for that. He is to deal with truth. If the truth agitate, let it agitate. Agitation is not the worst of' conditions. Nature teaches us better when she s...ends down her storms upon the stagnant peacefulness of her waters. Agitation is often a process, and the only possible one, in the moral as in the natural world, to purifica- tion ; and the only peace the pulpit has a right to seek, as a specific aim, is that which comes of purity. " First pure, then peaceable. " And as to a minister's influence being hindered by his faithfulness, I believe it not. It is a suggestion of the tempter. By a " Get thee behind me, Satan ! " would I put it by. I believe in a Providence ; I believe in man, and that, in the secret depths of each human soul, there is a respect for the honest and faithful man, however much his honesty and faithfulness may cause offence.
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