_THE SECRET WALK WITH GOD_ (i.). PAGE
Need of watching and prayer over three departments of a Minister's life--The secret department--Temptations in it from work--From solitude--Secret Devotion--The Morning Watch--Physical precautions--Evening hours--A Minister's prayers must sometimes forget the Ministry--This will be to the advantage of the Ministry--"_Tell Him all_" 1
_THE SECRET WALK WITH GOD_ (ii.).
Secret intercourse with God the life of a Minister's life--The Example of Jesus Christ--Testimony of von Machtholf--Special need of divine communion at the present day--The cry for effort and enterprize--Secularizing theories of religion and the Ministry--A call to young English Clergymen--A caution from Laodicea--Study of the Holy Scriptures--"The New Testament about twice a week"--What says the Ordinal?--M. Henri Lasserre on Devotional Literature and the Gospels--Study the Bible unprofessionally--Bridges' quotation from Witsius--Ridley in the Orchard 21
A fragmentary chapter--Higher Criticism--A technical and innocent term--Actual assertions of certain critics--"Do not follow this Book; follow Christ"--Weigh facts before theories--Testimony of Nature and History to Scripture--The Duke of Argyll in the _Nineteenth Century_--Prediction--Problem of the Human Knowledge of Jesus Christ--Current fulfilments of Prophecy--Methods of Bible Study--The plough--The spade--Specimen of spade-husbandry, in a Church Congress Study of the Epistle to the Philippians 45
_THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS_ (i.).
Secret Communion with God must _accompany_ everything else--We are watched--Self-respect--Consistency largely means Considerateness--"A consistent gentleman"--The Tongue--St Augustine's couplet for the dinner-table--The Clergy-House, its opportunities and risks--The duty of Example--Is it remembered as it used to be?--"For their sakes I sanctify Myself"--"Others" and their claims on us--Manner--Temper--Simeon's patience--The Secret of the Presence 79