THE

PASTOR AND HIS PEOPLE:

OR, THE

WORD OF GOD AND THE FLOCK OF CHRIST.

BY

REV. THOMAS J. POTTER,

PROFESSOR OF SACRED ELOQUENCE IN THE MISSIONARY COLLEGE OF ALL-HALLOWS;
AUTHOR OF "SACRED ELOQUENCE, OR, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PREACHING,"

ETC., ETC.

"Euntes in mundum universum prædicate evangelium omni creaturæ."

DUBLIN:

JAMES DUFFY, 15, WELLINGTON-QUAY;

AND

22, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON.

1869.

TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL MEN:

This Work,

WHICH HUMBLY ASPIRES TO ASSIST THEM IN THE

DISCHARGE OF THESE DUTIES,

IS INSCRIBED,

WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF RESPECT, AFFECTION, AND

ESTEEM.

HE volume which is here presented to the public is, whilst quite complete in itself, the Sequel, and in one sense the necessary conclusion, of the work on "Sacred Eloquence; or, the Theory and Practice of Preaching," which it was my privilege to offer to the kind consideration of the clergy some few years ago. In the former volume-following out the idea of St. Augustine, and M. Hamon to whose valuable Traite de la Predication I am so deeply indebted-I proposed to myself to lay down and establish the general principles of Sacred Eloquence; in the present one, these great general principles are reduced to practice, and applied to the composition of all those different kinds of discourses with which it will be the duty of the Missionary Priest to deal. If this