Excerpt from Pastoral Theology of the New Testament MY object in these lectures is not only to furnish you with definite rules and directions for the discharge of pastoral duty, but more especially to show you how you ought. Yourselves to study and use the Scriptures, in the service of which you are called one day to labour, in the interests of your calling and from its point of view. This is the more important because otherwise theological study moves in the sphere of the abstract, training neither the spiritual nor the mental powers for the life-work of the ministry - that is, for a real and not merely a formal discharge of it. Owing to this defect in their training we find that ministers in the discharge of their professional duty get into habits of work which very often do not go beyond a mechanical routine; alongside of a lifeless theology there arises a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.