A Layman's Practical Speech on Ministers Wanted for Maine

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 5, 1878

A Layman's Practical Speech on Ministers Wanted for Maine

A LAYMAN made a sharp, practical speech in the Congregational Conference in Maine. His theme was, “The Ministers Wanted for Maine.” He divided his speech, sermon-wise, into three heads: “1. We need brave men. 2. We need trained men. 3. We need men that will stick.” Under the third head he discoursed of “ministerial tramps.” Under the second he avowed his belief that men whose “greatest possession was a Bagster Bible and a stock of stories could not be well-instructed scribes.”