Pastoral Work in Country Districts: Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School at Cambridge, Lent, 1905 (Classic Reprint)

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Church reunited. There is, indeed, a deeper possession which we all have in common - the conviction Of faith in our Incarnate Lord. This is the best Of the things which any man has, SO that he can give them to others. But also, I Ought to add that I am fain to use one other thing which has been given me - a life-long tie with village people in the West Of England, among whom I was born and brought up, and served them for twelve years, and love them better than Oxford or Cambridge, for their own sake, and the good hand of God upon them.

SO it is of Pastoral Work that I am to speak, and specially pastoral work in English country life.

And I begin by saying that, strictly speaking, pastoral work is only one part - the greater and higher part no doubt, but yet only one part Of that for which we are called. There is the other great work of the missionary, besides that of the pastor.

The Holy Scriptures, while they show us that it is the will and plan Of God to work on men by men, give us two pictures Of the agent called and sent to this work: the picture Of the Fisherman and the picture Of the Shepherd.

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