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Title: The Things Which Remain
An Address To Young Ministers

Author: Daniel A. Goodsell

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The Things Which Remain

_An Address To Young Ministers_

By

DANIEL A. GOODSELL

A Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

_CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & PYE_
_NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS_

_Copyright, 1904, by_
JENNINGS AND PYE

PREFACE

This little book contains the larger part of an address I have delivered
at several Annual Conferences on the occasion of the admission of
probationary ministers into full membership. At the suggestion of some
who have heard it when delivered and whose assurance that it would be
useful in print I am bound to respect, I have consented to its
publication.

Matter not directly relating to the theme, but of sufficient importance
to accompany it in addressing an Annual Conference, is here omitted,
that all possible space might be given to the discussion of the
question, "How much Christian doctrine will still remain, though much of
the most radical criticism be accepted?"

Preface

It will be understood that concessions made for the sake of the argument
by no means represent my own views of that which must be ultimately
yielded to the critical spirit.

Already some opinions which threatened the authority of Gospels and
Epistles, and which have had wide acceptance, have been modified or
withdrawn. My aim in this address was not to scout criticism, from which
much of the highest value to faith is to come, but to steady the
wavering young minister; to sustain his preaching power by helping him
to a definite message, and to encourage him to a slow and guarded
acceptance of critical opinions destructive of "the faith once delivered
to the saints."

CHATTANOOGA, TENN., December, 1903.

The Things Which Remain

The followers of Him who