Excerpt from Inauguration of the Rev. A. B. Van Zandt, D.D., As Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology in the Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 24, 1872 It is not necessary here to expound the doctrine of a special call to the minstry; its scriptural authority; its definitions; the distinctions and the conditions of disposition and princi ples it includes. The essential thing for my purpose, is the the soul's recognition of its own heavenly calling. This must come to the spirit of the man by the Spirit of Me Lord. Apart from and below his sense of divine pardon and his re salting joy and peace in believing below his compassion for the souls that are ready to perish and his zeal for Jesus' 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.