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2 This "house to house" work recognises the value and necessity of personal contact of individual effort as Supplementary to the public and more ground work of the Minister. The Scriptures allude to the pastor as a Shepherd who has the care of a flock. The ideal being given in the prediction of what the great Shepherd's work would by." He shall feed his flock like a Shepherd, he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." The English term Curate in its technical sense fittingly describes the pastors work, meaning one who cares for Souls, or as Paul Speaks of him, One who "watches for souls." Too much emphasis cannot be laid upon this unclear of a ministers work in our day. The reasons being first a Strong tendency to Exalt the Sermon into undue prominence as an intellectual production at the Expense of Everything Else. The idea of the orator has gained