The Evolution of New Testament Criticism and the Consequent Outlook for to-Day: Inaugural Address October 5, 1892 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I cannot stand here this evening without confessing to peculiar feelings, even for such an occasion as this. My election to the chair of New Testament Exegesis and Literature in this Seminary places me in the following of remarkable men - men who were noted for their scholarship and for their influence over the world in which they moved - men who by their aptness to teach were felt in the class-room, by their ability to write were known in literary life, and by their power to accomplish were honored by the Church. Now, did my work stand before me to-night untried, this would nevertheless mean very much to me. But a year's attempted efforts make me realize its mean ing in a very peculiar way, for I have actually seen how hard it is, and will always be, to walk worthily in the way that has been thus marked out for me. Were I not therefore persuaded that no man's work results in anything unless in itself it be a strug gle, and were Inot sure that to the struggle of a professor's work, as well as to that of a minister's, there is a divine call, with its promise Of sustaining and enabling grace, I would stop even now and turn aside from the course that here awaits me. But in spite of a year's humbling experience, I am persuaded and I am sure, and so I have nothing else to do but trustingly to enter in upon it,-which in God's name and with God's help I do. And so, in Obedience to the traditions which gather around the professor's chair, in an institution such as this, Ipresent to you a theme which holds a prominent place in my thinking about the department over which I am called to preside.

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