Excerpt from An Essay on a Lay Ministry: Particularly on That of Wesleyan Local Preachers, With Observations Designed to Exhibit the Capabilities and Means of Improvement and Usefulness Possessed by That Class of Ministers Believes there is a class of young men, who have just entered or are about to enter the Ministry in the capacity of Local Preachers; and whose qualifications and means of improving them are slender, to whom his humble production may not be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.