Excerpt from The Circuit Rider on Foot: Or, My First Year in the Ministry The chosen vessel must be broken that the streams may flow. The smitten rock sent forth the pure and sparkling water, and the crucified Redeemer brought life and immortality to light. Had there been no death and burial there could have been no Resurrection dawn. So in all the great work of the ministry the submission to suffering and hardship and trial is the power that opens the gates and floods the world with the glory of saving grace and matchless love. If a man thinks the minister of the gospel has an easy time of it he does not consider the nature of things or the nature of that service the minister is called to perform. 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.