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ministers of the New Testament." " For we 

 preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; 

 and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." 



The twelve passages of Holy Scripture from 

 which the text for this morning has to be chosen, 

 seem to indicate clearly that the primary object of 

 the " Pride " sermon was to warn the clergy against 

 personal or official pride. But there are two 

 reasons which seem to justify us in taking a more 

 general view of the matter. First, the proportion 

 of clergy to laity in the University, and of their 

 representatives in the University Church, is very 

 different from what it once was ; and secondly, we 

 are learning to realize more fully the truth that the 

 Ministry is itself the type of a wider and more 

 generally distributed stewardship, the stewardship 

 of the Christian layman, and in their degree of all 

 those who have a truth to deliver to the world. 

 For everywhere God uses the few for the good of 

 the many, and truth always and everywhere is a 

 sacred trust from God for the service of man. 

 It follows, then, that the very same danger which 

 lies so near the life of the Christian Priest is no 

 less near to the life of every one who dares to 

 handle truth, and that which vitiates and destroys 

 the work of the Christian Priest is that which is 

 no less fatal to the philosopher, the man of science, 

 the critic, the artist, the musician. That danger is 

 the thought of self-sufficiency in one word, of 



