General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Christian sociology Social problems Sociology, Christian Church and social problems Religion / Christianity / General Social Science / Sociology / General Social Science / Sociology of Religion Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Certainly we may believe that by many the principle was admitted before its inevitable issues were discerned. It was forgotten that, while the principle does undoubtedly apply to the lower, the animal nature of man, one of the chief ends of life is the conquest of that lower nature by a higher. In this conquest there must therefore rule a higher principle than the so-called cosmic one. Ill The next relationship demanding our consideration is that between the Christian minister and his flock, between the pastor and those over whom he has been called to exercise oversight, and towards whom, therefore, his responsibility must be great.1 I do not forget that the people have also a responsibility towards one called to exercise the ministerial function, but to this audience a consideration of the subject from the first point of view may be regarded as the most important. Let me remind you of the following words of Dr. Hort: ‘ We are apt to forget (1) that according to the New Testament the Christian life is the true human life, and that Christians become true men in proportion as they live up to it; (2) that the right relations between 1 Note N. the members of the Christian society or Ecclesia are simply the normal relations which should subsist between members of the human race; and therefore (3) that all relations of life, being baptized into Christ, become par…