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things. Young people are commonly timid. They shrink from speaking of these things and yet long, many times with an unutterable longing, to unbosom themselves to some one in whom they can trust and who can help them. Culti^Tlte their confidence. Talk kindly to them. Beware of repelling them with coldness or severity. It is your business to take them by the hand and lead them to Jesus. Do not neglect the sick; study how to cheer, comfort and encourage them. Aim so to conduct your visits that your words may do them good. To talk and pray with the sick profitably is a very high attain- ment. Do not rest content until you have made it. If you fail in this part of your Avork, you can hardly be a success as a pastor, and you Avill have no very strong hold on the affections of your people. Be careful, however, that you do not fall into the opposite and equally dangerous extreme of under- valuing your pulpit Avork, and of giving almost ex- clusive attention to pastoral duties. It has been said that feebleness in the pulpit is, in the estima- tion of his people, the unpardonable sin in a preacher. However this may be, it exerts a tre- mendous influence in in j iiring his reputation and in- fluence. On the contrary, a man who habitually preaches ably, is all th e more welcome in the homes To ((, Young 3Iinisfcr. 237

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