A reminder for the men entering their pulpits today:
“One of the errands on which the Son of God came from heaven to earth was to bind up the broken-hearted and comfort all who mourn. Like their divine Master, ministers ought to be sons of consolation and perform the functions of a comforter as well as those of an instructor. For if pure and undefiled religion consists in visiting the widows and fatherless in their affliction, how much more incumbent is it on its teachers to cherish and manifest the same tenderness of spirit towards this deeply suffering portion of the human family?
The bruised heart loves the gentlest handling, and the troubled spirit is soothed with the simplest music. The soul has no inclination at such times and in such circumstances for anything but the "sincere milk of the Word", leaving the strong meat for other and healthier seasons.”
John Angell James
“One of the errands on which the Son of God came from heaven to earth was to bind up the broken-hearted and comfort all who mourn. Like their divine Master, ministers ought to be sons of consolation and perform the functions of a comforter as well as those of an instructor. For if pure and undefiled religion consists in visiting the widows and fatherless in their affliction, how much more incumbent is it on its teachers to cherish and manifest the same tenderness of spirit towards this deeply suffering portion of the human family?
The bruised heart loves the gentlest handling, and the troubled spirit is soothed with the simplest music. The soul has no inclination at such times and in such circumstances for anything but the "sincere milk of the Word", leaving the strong meat for other and healthier seasons.”
John Angell James
A reminder for the men entering their pulpits today:
“One of the errands on which the Son of God came from heaven to earth was to bind up the broken-hearted and comfort all who mourn. Like their divine Master, ministers ought to be sons of consolation and perform the functions of a comforter as well as those of an instructor. For if pure and undefiled religion consists in visiting the widows and fatherless in their affliction, how much more incumbent is it on its teachers to cherish and manifest the same tenderness of spirit towards this deeply suffering portion of the human family?
The bruised heart loves the gentlest handling, and the troubled spirit is soothed with the simplest music. The soul has no inclination at such times and in such circumstances for anything but the "sincere milk of the Word", leaving the strong meat for other and healthier seasons.”
John Angell James
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