The Individualistic Gospel And Other Essays

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The Individualistic Gospel And Other Essays
Andrew Gillies
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Perfunctory preaching, however cultured, will not do. Perfunctory calling or slum work will not do. They want a ministry that has its roots in inti- mate oneness with God and flowers in that self- obliterating service which is redolent of honest interest and sacrificial love. Such a ministry was that of Samuel Rutherford and Fletcher of Madeley, of Hugh Price Hughes and Maltbie Babcock and Silvester Home. Such is that of Bishop Brent and Dan Crawford and Wilfred Grenfell and our own Helms of Bo...ston, a ministry that answers to the full all that yearning of weak IF I WERE A YOUNG MINISTER 67 and sorrowing and sinful and discouraged hearts for "The touch of human hands — Such care as was in Him Who walked in Galilee Beside the silver sea. " In these days of multifarious ministerial calls and a highly complex ecclesiastical machinery that needs constant attention, the attainment of such a ministry is not easy. Among other things, our authoritative Rural Church Programme in- sists that the pastor must make his church the center of the social life of the community, plan social functions for the young people, organize boys' clubs, "keep something doing in your church all the time, " establish rural study classes for training leaders for conventional church work and for leaders of community service, develop all phases of evangelistic effort, take an active in- terest in Farmers' Institutes and other rural organizations, attend public sales, introduce a circulating library where none exists, arrange a course of lectures on "Good Housekeeping, " "Farming, " or give stereopticon lectures, or- ganize a Religious Day School during the summer vacation, organize and direct a staff of parish visitors, also a band of personal workers and a few silent workers, and "use all righteous means to lift your community and your entire parish 68 THE INDIVIDUALISTIC GOSPEL up to the highest state of moral, industrial, social, and spiritual efficiency.

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