Excerpt from The Presbyterian Quarterly, Vol. 16: July, 1902 Every minister of the gospel has other duties to perform than that of preaching from the pulpit and from house to house he has his obligations to the church at large and to the truth in its worldwide mission. There is a sense in which every minister is sent unto the [whole] world. So there are many reasons why a minister, in his reading and study, should reach beyond the immediate needs of his local church. 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.