Christian Beneficence With Special Reference to Systematic, and Proportionate Giving the Hartley Lecture, Delivered to the Primitive Conference, at Scarborough, June 14, 1905 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Christian Beneficence: With Special Reference to Systematic, and Proportionate Giving the Hartley Lecture, Delivered to the Primitive Conference, at Scarborough, June 14, 1905 When I was appointed to this Lectureship, I felt at once that my subject must be one dealing with some phase of practical Church life or work. My time and energies for many years past have been so absorbed with the administrative work Of the Church as to make profound or prolonged study of any Theological or Philosophical subject a practical impossibility. But in a great house there are many vessels, and in a great Church there are many departments and each department depends in some measure for its full efficiency on all the others. And it is well for each man to find out his own aptitudes and limitations, and within these, 'serve his generation' as best he may. Several friends suggested to me the topic of this lecture as being a timely and important one in itself, as supplying some variety to the Biblical and Theo logical subjects discussed in previous lectures, and as being one in which I had been interested nearly the whole Of my ministry. I saw no sufficient reason to decline these suggestions, and hence this topic was selected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
