I have given you only the results, never the pro-
cesses. More and more I look upon the Christian
minister as an interpreter. His business is to get,
by processes sometimes laborious and long-continued,
at the exact meaning of the Scriptures, and preach
that which he finds there. Consequently, a minister



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who is faithful to the Scriptures can never preach
simply as a denominationalist The moment a pul-
pit becomes denominational in its teaching, it neces-
sarily becomes partial and defective. It cannot be
honestly scriptural. May God grant that by the help
of the truth which this great servant of God has
brought to us, we may be able to look forward even
hopefully to that great change which shall separate
us from our present limited and depraved conditions,
and introduce us into a purer, freer, nobler, larger
life, where the light and love of God shall lift the
soul into a beatitude which shall be an Eternal Te
Deum : —

"Thanks be unto God which giveth us the

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