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Bishop of Winchester, p. 526. ‘To relinquish or suspend parochial labour, because it is not attended with success, would be terribly inexcusable. Labour on; commit the matter to God; wait patiently; get a feeling of the bowels of Christ; and die, praying, Lord! pity the people.’ Adam’s Private Thoughts. ‘Our business is only to ‘declare the whole counsel of God’—to live the life of a Minister—and not cease to pray. Our reward is sure; our record is on high.’ Venn’s Life, p. 380. ‘It is not the Minister who has most success in his preaching that shall stand highest in the day of the Lord; but the Minister whose eye has been single; whose prayers have been fervent; whose bowels of mercies have been yearning over “the ignorant, and those who are out of the way;” and who has most readily sacrificed his own will and temporal interest. Such men are comfortable to Christ; and upon such men he will put the greatest honour.’ Ibid. p. 365.