Secret intercourse with God the life of a Minister's life--The Example of Jesus Christ--Testimony of von Machtholf--Special need of divine communion at the present day--The cry for effort and enterprize--Secularizing theories of religion and the Ministry--A call to young English Clergymen--A caution from Laodicea--Study of the Holy Scriptures--"The New Testament about twice a week"--What says the Ordinal?--M. Henri Lasserre on Devotional Literature and the Gospels--Study the Bible unprofessionally--Bridges' quotation from Witsius--Ridley in the Orchard 21 CHAPTER III. _SECRET STUDY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES._ A fragmentary chapter--Higher Criticism--A technical and innocent term--Actual assertions of certain critics--"Do not follow this Book; follow Christ"--Weigh facts before theories--Testimony of Nature and History to Scripture--The Duke of Argyll in the _Nineteenth Century_--Prediction--Problem of the Human Knowledge of Jesus Christ--Current fulfilments of Prophecy--Methods of Bible Study--The plough--The spade--Specimen of spade-husbandry, in a Church Congress Study of the Epistle to the Philippians 45 CHAPTER IV. _THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS_ (i.). Secret Communion with God must _accompany_ everything else--We are watched--Self-respect--Consistency largely means Considerateness--"A consistent gentleman"--The Tongue--St Augustine's couplet for the dinner-table--The Clergy-House, its opportunities and risks--The duty of Example--Is it remembered as it used to be?--"For their sakes I sanctify Myself"--"Others" and their claims on us--Manner--Temper--Simeon's patience--The Secret of the Presence 79 CHAPTER V. _THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS_ (ii.). "Take heed unto thyself"--Relations with Woman--Christian chivalry--And Christian caution--Special difficulties--"Know thyself"--Celibacy--The Clergyman's Wife--The problem of means--The Clergyman and money--Pecuniary intemperance--Accurate accounts--Investment circulars--"Lay not up for yourselves" 101 CHAPTER VI. _THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS_ (iii.). Curate and Incumbent--A Chancellor on Curates--The ideal Incumbent--No Incumbent perfect--And no parish perfectly content--Loyal watchfulness needed accordingly--The Curate's Party--"The lost grace, humility"--Subordination--Take sides against yourself--A letter to _The Record_ on Curates' grievances. 123 CHAPTER VII. _PASTOR IN PARISH_ (i.).