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Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers

Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers

by Charles E. JEFFERSON (1860 - 1937)

Charles Edward Jefferson was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York for 33 years. In Quiet Hints, published in 1901, he provided guidance to young preachers on what we would today call ministerial deportment, an old-fashioned word that refers to how a man carries himself, how he presents himself, his manners, his bearing, his habits, and his whole approach to life. Jefferson wrote in short, pithy statements that encapsulate practical truth in just a few words. (Summary by MaryAnn)


01 - Wherefore All This

02 - A Mirror for Ministers

03 - The Man of Macedonia

04 - Which Door?

05 - Starts Good and Bad

06 - The Foremost of the Demons

07 - Cowardice

08 - Impatience

09 - Clerical Hamlets

10 - Despondency

11 - The Value of a Target

12 - Building the Tower

13 - Selfishness

14 - Dishonesty

15 - Autocracy

16 - Vanity

17 - Discontent

18 - Pettiness

19 - Foolishnes

20 - Meanness

21 - Mannerisms

22 - "Thy Speech Bewrayeth Thee"

23 - Books and Reading

24 - Near to Men Near to God

25 - Eagles, Race-Horses and Plodders

26 - Unconscious Decay