Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Churches, One Minister Pastor ‘of many.— In reading the sketches of ministers in this volume it will appear…
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Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Churches, One Minister Pastor ‘of many.— In reading the sketches of ministers in this volume it will appear as if some of them were given to many changes in their pastoral relations. There are two considerations to be kept in view in reflecting upon such cases. The first is, that in large sections of our country, especially in the South, one minister is frequently pastor of four or more churches at the same time. If he changes his field of labor four times in his life, he has been pastor of sixteen churches, while in one of our cities the same man would only have ministered to four. The second is, that a small number of our ministers are of an impulsive, and of a revival. order, as many commonly use the word revival; and after a brief settlement, and considerable success, they are anxious for the special harvests which they commonly reap in new fields ; and their removals are frequent for this reason. Generally, our ministers have comparatively long settlements; and this practice is growing rapidly among us. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart
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