Church and Parish Problems

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Excerpt from Church and Parish Problems: Vital Hints and Helps for Pastor, Officers, and People Every church has a secular side (just as every factory has a spiritual side), and the legal relations and business interests of the organization present matters of great importance. They are often dimly understood and clumsily managed. Clear ideas and right methods in this department are greatly to be desired. The second chapter undertakes to supply this need. It has been prepared by an eminent lawyer, who has long been an active member of one of the great churches of New York, who has been often consulted on ecclesiastical business, and who has given much thought to questions of this nature. It is doubted whether a statement as complete and as clear as this chapter contains, of the very things which every man who is interested in the business life of a church most needs to know, can be found anywhere else. Every church has or hopes for a tabernacle to dwell in, and the building problem is one of great interest. Toward the solution of this problem an architect, whose pen is as pointed as his pencil is cunning, has contributed, in the third chapter, a mass of piquant and practical counsel. The fourth chapter finds the pastor at home, and discusses in a lively, homely, sympathetic way the questions concerning the domestic life of the parsonage, and the relations of the people to the pastor and his family. The wisdom of the "Sunny Side" and "Shady Side" literature of a former time will be found condensed in this chapter. In the fifth chapter the pastor is seen at work, and some of the wisest of our teachers offer hints about methods of pastoral service. Doubtless the pastor will be thankful for these counsels, but they are intended for the people more than the pastor, they show the people what the work of the pastor is, that they may give him a fair chance to do it. In the sixth chapter the people are pointed to several ways in which they may help the pastor, not merely by giving him room to work in, and properly valuing his work, but also by practical assistance in his labors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.