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Excerpt from Sermon and Charges Delivered at the Installation of the Rev. George L. Prentiss, as Associate Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Neware, New Jersey: November 6th, 1850
To sum the whole, it is the province of a Christian bishop to build up Christ's kingdom in the hearts of men; first within the limits of his own special flock, and then with and through them, in co-operation with the entire Church, to the remotest bounds of the world.' Christ is mustering on the earth a vast spiritual army and he has appointed each pas tor to prepare a particular company, have them well equipped and well disciplined, know their places 1n the general ranks, and be ready at his call to come forth and be joined to the sacramental host. If he. May but present to his Divine Master such a band, comprising among its members all the souls given him in charge, all sanctified all clad in the complete panopy of grace, and co-operating zealously and harmoniously with the rest, according to the full measure of their power, to the great ends of the Master's kingdom, he has discharged his commission as a Christian pastor. All that tends to pro mote this result, and so far as it tends to promote it, belongs legitimately to his sphere of service. All else is foreign to it.
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