Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
170 level of universal culture is continually rising. If we raise our demands in reference to a minister’s charge, we have also to procure the means that are indispensable for mutual satisfaction. When however, we ask that a minister’s life and character should be examplary, we wish for nothing extravagant ; for it, entirely, rest with him. It only takes a purified moral sense to do this, and to walk on the footsteps of our Master and of ancesters, who, in meekness and sobriety, in love and rightiousness, in patience, resignation, and self-sacrifice, have been a torch-light resplendent, attractive, and uplifting, not only to our age, but to all ages ; and have, in a rich measure poured the blessings of inner peace on their surroundings an on humanity. He who is not attrected, nor inspired, by such examples; he who entered his career without a trusting soul and a deep religious feeling, may nominally be a minister, but, in reality, never. He is not an apostle of, but a slave to, his vocation; he is sentenced to life-long hard labour withont any chanse of blessing and success. He is dispossessed of the love of vocation, without which none can feel contentment in his heart; and how can he, in other, rouse that which he does not himself possess ? One of the richest ornament in a ministe r’s qualification, is the readiness of speech, by means of which he can import his thoughts, feelings, and his noble enthusiasm, to his hearers, and make all things sound so familiar to them, as if every one of them heard his own thoughts and feelings interpreted. And let us confess that the task in this respect of a preacher, is more difficult than that of an orator; for the worthiest themes of the sermons of the former lie, for the most part, far beyond the horison of the senses. And if most men possess only a scanty knowledge of, and insight into, the things of this world:
