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qualification for a * i § er \ U pre ^ her ; and a knowledge of die mode in which his materials must be combined and displayed in ordjer to produce the most powerful impression on an audience , must be next , &t le&st , if apt equal , in importance to the possession of the materials themselves . WQf will occasional lessons in mere elocution supply the > yant x > f whijch we are speaking . We rather refer
U > th , e necessity for such instruction in the composition of sermons , in the popular handling of theological difficulties , in the choice of subjects arid the management of them , according to the temper and circumstanoes of the congregation , and generally in the whole conduct of the pastoral office , more especially with reference to the young and inquiring , which is so indispensable to the comfort of a minister in first entering on the duties of his
charge * and which a long course of pastoral experience and reflection can alone supply . It would be unreasonable to devolve the duty of suieh instruction cm the professor of theology , however highly accomplished as a preacher ; for each subject—that of theology , and that of pulpit eloquence and the pastoral care—is enptJgh to occupy the whole of a teacher ' s time and thoughts , and
demands qualifications peculiar to itselC In Havard College , North America , this division of academic labour has been adopted , and we ' gather from Re ^ inhard ' s account of what was de&ctiye in his own pastoral education , how these things were—and we suppose still are—managed in sonie of the Universities of Germany . Speaking ( of hjs course of study at Wijttee&berg , he says *—
-I gaye my whole time to the sciences which a preacher ought to posses ^ to do fulj justice to th / e importan ce of his calling . J applied cjosejy npjt only to the Hebrew , but tq thepther cognatelanguages y and I had the good fortune to meet with a very able instruejtpr in jthe deroeqjs of these languages in the late Professor Dresde . \ devoted myself witji m pre ardour stijl to philosophy , under Dr . Schmid , the nephew of Crusius . And when I tell you , that with all this I attended cours . es on the interpretation of the Old ancf New Testament , on dogmatic theology , and on mathematics—that I reviewed all these lectures with much care at
homethat I exercised myself daily in reading the Bible in Hebrew—that I took part in discussions pn subjects of theology—and that I reserved to myself stHI ma » y hours for the Latin , but more especially for jthe Greek WrjjLers—you will easily cpnceiVg th ^ t , during tfie $ e two first years , I had H , p ti f n ^ for preaching . Circi ^ rjstanees l ? avi , ug enabled me to ? £ m ? itt Jlpnger at WittermSerg than I had calculated upon , I fonr ^ d , during Jthe third year of rny residence there , a more iniimaie
ajcquaintanpe with Professor Schroeckh , and attended his private lectures on Churph History . This was a , n ( ew field opened to my studies . My guide introduced me to its most interesting portions with so much learping , and with such encouraging kindness , that I devoted 9 . considerable share of my time to this interesting labour . During this and tjie following year I occasionally preached ifor iny friends , but not often enough to derange my plan of study . I had to regret having no oppor-* Lettre vM p . 6 C .
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758 On the Studies fflid Fuitfic Ministry
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/18/
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