It is quite true, that, as my old minister shrewdly said to me, even the
Holy Ghost cannot inspire an experience. No. But a class of genuine
experimental divinity would surely help to foster and develop an
experience. And, till the class is established, any student who has the
heart for it may lay in the best of the class library for a few
shillings. Mr. Thin will tell you that there is no literature that is
such a drug in the market as the best books of Experimental Divinity. No
wonder, then, that we make such slow and short way in the skilfulness,
success, and acceptance of our preaching and our pastorate.
3. But, at the same time, my brethren, all your ministers' experience of
personal religion will be lost upon you unless you are yourselves
attending the same school. The salvation of the soul, you must
understand, is not offered to ministers only. Ministers are not the only
men who are, to begin with, dead in trespasses and sins. The Son of God
did not die for ministers only. The Holy Ghost is not offered to
ministers only. A clean, humble, holy heart is not to be the pursuit of
ministers only.
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