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And then he tells how his people's necessity made him practise physic
among them, till he would have twenty at his door at once. 'All these my
employments were but my recreations, and, as it were, the work of my
spare hours. For my writings were my chiefest daily labour. And blessed
be the God of mercies that brought me from the grave and gave me, after
wars and sickness, fourteen years' liberty in such sweet employment!' Let
all ministers who would sit at home over a pipe and a newspaper with a
quiet conscience keep Boston's _Memoirs_ and Baxter's _Reliquiae_ at
arm's-length.
3. Our young communicants' classes, and still more, those private
interviews that precede and finish up our young communicants' classes,
are by far our best opportunities as pastors. I remember Dr. Moody
Stuart telling me long ago that he had found his young communicants'
classes to be the most fruitful opportunities of all his ministry; as,
also, next to them, times of baptism in families. And every minister who
tries to be a minister at all after Dr. Moody Stuart's pattern, will tell
you something of the same thing.
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