THE CHRISTIAN PASTOR IN THE NEW AGE COMRADE-SPONSOR-SOCIAL MEDIATOR LECTURES FOR 1909 ON THE GEORGE SHEPARD FOUNDATION BY ALBERT JOSIAH LYMAN Author of "Preaching in the New Age," NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. PUBLISHERS THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY APR 3 0 1913 ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 264,343 COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY Published, November, 1909 This little volume is dedicated and inscribed in affectionate honor to my beloved people of the South Congregational Church and Parish, Brooklyn, whose unswerving fellowship has been my joy and song during all the six and thirty years of my ministry among them, and in whose faith and patience and wonderful unity of kindness I have seemed to find both clear warrant and noble witness for that view of the Christian Pastorate which, in tribute to them, is here lovingly, though imperfectly, outlined. October 24, 1909. PREFATORY NOTE President's House, Bangor Theological Seminary, My dear Dr. Lyman: BANGOR, MAINE. Dr. George Shepard, Professor of Homiletics in Bangor Theological Seminary from 1836 to 1868, was one of the great preachers of his time, declining invitations to pulpits in Boston and New York in order to do his loved work of teaching. Your lectures were the "George Shepard Lectures on Preaching and Pastoral Service, named in his honor. You were the fifth incumbent of the lectureship, following Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, Dr. Amory H. Bradford, Professor Hugh Black, D. D., and Professor Edward C. Moore, D. D. These lectures came in "Convocation Week," February 1-5, 1909, and your associated lecturers on other Foundations for the year were Dr. Hamilton W. Mabie, of The Outlook, New York, and Professor |