Jethro; a System of Lay Agency, in Connection with Congregational Churches: For the Diffusion of the Gospel Among Our Home Population (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Jethro: A System of Lay Agency, in Connection With Congregational Churches, for the Diffusion of the Gospel Among Our Home Population

Lay agency has been so much identified with preaching, that many persons cannot conceive of it in any other form and not a few, who scornfully repudiate it in that, are its strenuous advocates in those other modes, which have just been specified. We cordially hail all such patrons of lay labour. They go with us four-fifths of the way; and we shall have no dispute about the remainder, He who has advanced thus far, may soon proceed to the end of the journey. Compared with this great and daily aug menting host of various agents, whom they approve, the whole existing body of lay preachers in the realm is but a handful; and the same may be said of the comparative numbers of human beings upon whom they, respectively.

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