The Human Side of Ministerial Life

Abstract

"There is a human side of the ministerial life to be lived, seen, appropriated and enjoyed. There is a humanity which is moral dynamic, and which has tonic properties of a mental and physical kind. A minister can miss being his real self, to the detriment of his work and influence, and with loss to his congregation. There is a "buttoned-up," frock-coated, condensed sort of existence, out of which the real man only peeps now and again. But the religious sanities are embedded in the humanities. There is no offensive humour, or laughter, in the New Testament; but there is the constant and persuasive appeal of a rational and reasonable humanity"