Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 29: March, 1864The ministry is peculiar. It demands the best qualifications of the others, and, in addition, a heart preparation without which all other things are insufficient. Its call is at once so sacred and so personal that it cannot with propriety be discussed here.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.