sins but a must he be in one shape or in all otherwise he is no minister leading inspiring but only a priest a poor miserable priest � not singing his own out of his own throat but grinding away at the barrel organ of his � grating forth tones wliich he did not make and cannot understand the minister is to labor for mankind for the noblest end in one of the highest modes of labor and its fairest form he does not ask to rule but to serve not praise but perfection he seeks power over men not for sake but theirs he is to take the lead in all works of education of moral and social reform k need is he must be willing to alone the qualities wliich bind him to mankind for all eternity are qualities which may him from his class and his yes from his own brothers and that for his mortal life the distinctions amongst men must be no distinctions to him he must honor all men become a brother to all � most to the he must see the man in the beggar in the in the outcast of society and labor to separate that william diamond from the rubbish that its light in a great city the lowest ranks of the public should be familiar to his thoughts and present in his prayers he b to seek tion from men that can give it � and impart of himself to all that need and as they need he must keep an unbroken sympathy with man above all he must dwell intimate with god it b hb duty to master the greatest subjects of human thought to know the nature of his � hb animal nature his human nature and hb divine man in his ideal state of wisdom abundance loveliness and religion man b hb actual state of ignorance want and sin he b to to man s highest wants to bring high counsel to low men and to more the aspirations of the he must be a living rebuke to proud men and the a man so full of heart and hope that drooping souls shall take courage and thank god cheered by his conquering to do and to be all tliis he must know men not with the half which comes from reading books but by seeing feeling doing and being he must know history philosophy poetry � and life he must know by heart ho must understand the laws of god be filled with god s thought animated with his feeling � be filled with truth and love expecting much of himself he will look for much also from other men ho asks men to lend him their ears if he have any thing to teach knowing that then he shall win their hearts but if he has nothing to offer ho bids men go off where they can be fed and leave the naked walls and cold to tell him sir you have nothing to say you had better be done but he expects men that take his ideas for truth to turn hb words to life he looks for com as proof tliat he good seed m the field he trust men will become better by his words � more full of faith he hopes to see them him till he can serve them no more and they come no longer to his well to draw but have found the fountain of immortal life hard by their own door � so the good father who has watched and prayed over hb children to have them set up for themselves and live out their own manly and independent life he does not ask honor nor riches nor ease only to see good men and good works as the result of toil result comes of a long life then he knows either that he has his calling or failed of his duty we have always looked on the lot of a in a try town as our of a and life not poor not idly he ia every man s equal and man s master he is welcome everywhere if worthy and may have the satisfaction that he ia helping men to wisdom to virtue to piety to the dearest joys of this life and the next ho can easily know all of his flock be familiar with their thoughts and help them out of their difficulties by his superiority of nature or cultivation or religious growth the great work of education � intellectual and spiritual � falls under his charge he can ve due culture to all but the and more delicate plants that require the eye and hand � these ai e peculiarly his care in small societies eloquence is not to be looked for as ia the great of a city where the listening looks of hundreds or thousands would win eloquence almost out of the stones the ocean is always sublime in its movements but the smallest spring under oak has beauty in its still and sends its waters to the sea in cities the lot of the minister is far less grateful � his connection less intimate less domestic here in addition to the common subjects of the minister s discourse everywhere the same the great of society require to be discussed and peace and war freedom and slavery the public policy of states and the character of their leaders come up to the of a great city to be looked on in the light of and so judged with a few hearers we see not how a man can fail to speak simply and with speech before many speaking on such a theme as religion which has provoked such of art out of the poet painter � we wonder that every man is not eloquent some will pass by the little spring nor heed its loveliness � all turn with wonder 