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Minister: Need of Personal Tenderness
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
Speaking of the temper requisite to the right discharge of ministerial duty, Payson said, 'I never was fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself; when I was subdued and melted into penitency, and felt as though I had just received pardon to my own soul, and when my heart was full of tenderness and pity. No anger, no anger.'
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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Minister: Need of Personal Tenderness'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fff/m/minister-need-of-personal-tenderness.html. 1870.