Excerpt from The Prophetic Ministry for TodayThe good ladies of a certain church society in my diocese publish annually a calendar of the church year. On the calendar is a motto or text, intended to inculcate the strict economy of time. But instead of being placed over the months and weeks and days, it has, with singu lar felicity, been put over the picture of the Bishop which supposedly adorns one corner of the calendar. The text is, Gather up the fragments that nothing be lost.There could be no watch-word more necessary or motto more applicable to a modern Bishop.He is a man scattered and peeled, troubled about many things, distracted with various and Often mutually variant occupations. He must be a man of affairs and many affairs. He is expected to fulfill many functions. He is primarily a business man, an administrator and executive. Particularly he is the trouble man Of a large corporation. All the church quarrels gather about his devoted head. He has the responsibility for everything that goes wrong, Often without the authority to set any thing right. He serves as a lightning rod to carry Off the accumulated wrath of the ecclesiastical heavens. He is constantly called on to act as a judge and should have a judicial temperament. He is also a travelling man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.