Discourses at the Inauguration of the Rev. Alexander T. M'gill, D.D., As Professor of Pastoral Theology, Church Government, and the Composition and ... N. J: Delivered at Princeton, September 12, - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from Discourses at the Inauguration of the Rev. Alexander T. M'gill, D.D., As Professor of Pastoral Theology, Church Government, and the Composition and Delivery of Sermons, in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J: Delivered at Princeton, September 12, 1854, Before the Directors of the Seminary; I. The Ministry We Need, by the Rev. Nicholas Murray, D.D., Of Elizabethtown, N. J., II. Practical Theology, by the Rev. Alexander T. M'gill, D.D

The word minister means a servant; and minis try means service. The word usually translated minister, Acdzouog, is the name given in the ancient church to those who collected alms for the poor, and distributed them; but, when connected with the words and the like, it means religious instructors, or preachers of the gospel. Yet the lead ing character Of a minister is that of a servant, and the ministry is a service of a special kind. Every Chris tian is a servant of Christ, but every Christian is not a minister Of the gospel. Every deacon is a servant, as the word implies; but his service respects temporal things, and the Office was instituted that the ministry Of the word might fully devote itself to the high duty of spiritual instruction.

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