The Minister as a Man of Business

Abstract

"Some there be that account slovenliness of method as a sign of grace, and esteem unbusiness-like ways as evidence that they are in the prophetic succession. Others there are who imagine that to be a capable man of affairs is the same as be~ng a man of God, and account powers of organisation an efficient substitute for spiritual insight in the study and inspiration in the pulpit. Between this Scylla and that Chary" bdis has the true minister to steer his way, conscious that there is some natural antagonism between method and genius, business-like capacity and seer-like insight, but conscious also that since he is not under nature but under grace these antagonisms have to be reconciled"