Author: W. Gresley

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781330495148

Excerpt from Bernard Leslie: Or a Tale of the Last Ten Years Few books, perhaps, are more instructive, or hold out more encouraging motives to zeal in well-doing, than the lives of eminent Christian pastors. It is scarcely to be expected that the records of the early Church should have preserved those minute incidents of biographical history, which enable us to see the Christian minister in his daily walk and conversation. Much must there be left to the imagination: and our views of ministerial labors and usefulness must be derived chiefly from the accounts of more recent times. Our own Church furnishes many bright examples: and even the contemplation of the zealous labors of the ministers of other communities besides our own, - the devoted zeal of Xavier, the piety of De Sales, the munificence of Borromeo, or the daily labors of Oberlin or Neff, - has a powerful efficacy in calling up the spirit of emulation in hearts which require the influence of every available motive to stimulate them to persevering exertion. 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.