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'If . a man desire the office of a bishop , he desireth a good work . ' Thus spake the Apostle of the Gentiles , and he spake from experience , for he was a bishop himself ; and had done his work manfully , and could judge what a work it is . In his hands it was a work indeed—no sinecure—a work of hazard and peril ; of anxiety and suffering ; of ardent love to the souls of men , and of self-denial and self-devotion , to try by all means to save them . While he had hard work he had scanty pay . The bishop ' s hands were hardened with labour manual that he misht not be
burdensome , when the support of a bishop of most simple habits would have been burdensome to his see . He had no palace , for his episcopal residence was any house where , in his peregrinations , he was kindly received , and at Rome , where he resided for a considerable time , he dwelt c two whole years in his own hired house , '—which there is abundant evidence was not the Vatican . How fervently he preached there are unquestionable intimations .
With lungs and nerves of the best structure , they were fully put to the proof when he continued till midnight exhorting one church ; and though one thoughtless young man fell asleep and nearly broke his neck in falling from his seat , the hearers were in general too intensely interested to be fatigued , and were all dissolved in tears . And his work tells well . We have , indeed ,
no list of nephews and nieces , or children and grand-children , raised to aristocratic rank and splendour on the proceeds of his labour ; we have no history of cathedrals in Corinthian or Gothic style which his ample resources founded ; but we have the account of a weekly contribution which his zeal prompted the churches of his diocese to make , to send to the poor saints at Jerusalem ; and Asia , Greece , Italy , abounded with churches composed of Christian converts , which his episcopal labours had
made . His travels as a missionary were not expedited in a poach-aud-fourj he was , indeed , ' Let down Ur a basket' a {
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What constitutes a Bishopr ? 469
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WHAT CONSTITUTES A BISHOP ?
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X ) asz sie Jupiter nicht sUhe ; UinI die goldne Schale schwankte , Und es fieleii wenig- Tropfen A at' den griinen Boden nieder , Emsig waren drauf die Bienen H inter her , und saugten fieiszig ; Kam der Schmetterling geschaftig , Auch ein Trdpfchen zu erhaschen ; Selbst die ungestalte Spinne Kxoch herbey und sog gewaltig . Gliicldich ha ben sie gekostet , Sie und audre zarte Thierchen ! Demi sie theilen mit dem Menschen Nun das schb'nste Gliick , die Kunst .
A bowl brim full of nectar . As she pass'd Hastily on , to escape the eye of Jove , The golden bowl was shaken , and there fell A few drops on the thirsty earth beneath . The industrious bee flew eagerly and drank . The butterfly , too , fluttered there and sipp'd His portion : E ' en the formless spider crawl'd Upon his monstrous legs and sucked with might . And happily they tasted , for thus they And other little creatures share with man Art , his chief pride , supreme felicity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/37/
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