{"id":79,"date":"2006-03-03T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2013-07-03T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:22:10","slug":"chalmers-plea-for-passionate-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Chalmers plea for passionate ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/1600\/chalmers.jpg\"><img style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/320\/chalmers.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs we head into the weekend, here is a quote from Thomas Chalmers from my own &#8220;Defining Quotes&#8221;\u009d file. This statement comes from Dr. Chalmers&#8217; sermon on the day of the funeral of Princess Charlotte of Wales:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Is there no room for men of zeal and of strength, who might go forth among these wanderers, and compel them to come in; for men of holy fervour, who might set the terrors of hell and the free offer of salvation before them; for men of affection, who might visit the sick, the dying, and the afflicted; for men who fastened their most intense aim on the great object of preparing sinners for eternity &#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-quoted by Thomas Bridgman in The Nature and Necessity of a Revival of Vital Godliness: A Sermon (Montrose: Smith &amp; Hill, 1820), p. 14, footnote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we head into the weekend, here is a quote from Thomas Chalmers from my own &#8220;Defining Quotes&#8221;\u009d file. This statement comes from Dr. Chalmers&#8217; sermon on the day of the funeral of Princess Charlotte of Wales: &#8220;Is there no room for men of zeal and of strength, who might go forth among these wanderers, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Chalmers plea for passionate ministry&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}