| › Preface - TO MY YOUNGER BRETHREN
Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work
by
THE RIGHT REV. HANDLEY C.G. MOULE, D.D.
Lord Bishop of Durham
Fourth Edition
1902 ...read |
| › Chapter 1 - The Secret Walk with God (i) - Pastor, for the round of toil
See the toiling soul is fed;
Shut the chamber, light the oil,
Break and eat the Spirit's bread;
Life to ot ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - The Secret Walk with God (ii) - He that would to others give
Let him take from Jesus still;
They who deepest in Him live
Flow furthest at His will.
I resume the rich sub ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - Secret Study of the Holy Scriptures - Like those Emmaus travellers we go
Forth from the city-gate of things below;
Christ at our side, His Scripture for our light,
Here burning hea ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - The Daily Walk with Others (i) - When the watcher in the dark
Turns his lenses to the skies,
Suddenly the starry spark
Grows a world upon his eyes:
Be my life a lens, th ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - The Daily Walk with Others (ii) - If Jesus Christ thou serve, take heed,
Whate'er the hour may be;
His brethren are obliged indeed
By their nobility.
In the present chapte ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - The Daily Walk with Others (iii) - Thrice happy they who at Thy side,
Thou Child of Nazareth,
Have learnt to give their struggling pride
Into Thy hands to death:
If th ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - Pastor in Parish (i) - Master, to the flock I speed,
In Thy presence, in Thy name;
Show me how to guide, to feed,
How aright to cheer and blame;
With me knock ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - Pastor in Parish (ii) - Work on in hope; the plough, the sickle wield;
Thy Master is the harvest's Master too;
He gives the golden seed, He owns the field,
And do ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - The Clergyman and the Prayer Book - Dear pages of ancestral prayer,
Illumined all with Scripture gold,
In you we seem the faith to share
Of saints and seers of old.
Whene' ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - Preaching (i) - Earthen vessels, frail and slight,
Yet the golden Lamp we bear;
Master, break us, that the light
So may fire the murky air;
Skill an ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - Preaching (ii) - For Thy sake, beloved Lord,
I will labour in Thy Word;
On the knees, in patient prayer;
At the desk, with studious care;
In the pulpit, seek ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - Preaching (iii) - Eternal Fulness, overflow to me
Till I, Thy vessel, overflow for Thee;
For sure the streams that make Thy garden grow
Are never fed but by an ...read |
