"Our Lord's illustration of the necessity of a previous counting of the cost in important undertakings forcibly applies to the Christian Ministry. . . . Indeed the difficulties of this work to the considerate conscientious mind must exclude any expectation of temporal ease and comfort. Many other tracks in life offer a large promise of indulgence. But to this work is most especially linked the daily cross: and in it must be anticipated severe and sometimes overwhelming trials--arising from the professing church, the world, the power of Satan, and ourselves."
--The Christian Ministry by Charles Bridges, pp. 11-12
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