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Minister: Should Be a Nursing Father
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In a church in Verona stands, or rather sits, a wooden image of St. Zeno, an ancient bishop, with knees so ludicrously short that there is no lap on which a babe could be dandled. He was not the first nor the last ecclesiastic who has been utterly incapable of being a nursing father to the church. It were well if all ministers had a heavenly instinct for the nourishing and bringing up of the Lord's little ones. Is there not much lack in this?
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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Minister: Should Be a Nursing Father'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fff/​m/minister-should-be-a-nursing-father.html. 1870.
Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Minister: Should Be a Nursing Father'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fff/​m/minister-should-be-a-nursing-father.html. 1870.