Saturday, December 6, 2008

Nothing Changes


Under the heading of "nothing new under the sun".....

Regarding the practice of "Pastoral Visitations" and the 'busy-ness' of today's family...

"Indeed, amid the artificial arrangements of modern society, the great difficulty often is to find any time suitable for such visitations, families being so variously occupied with the employments of active life, and so seldom for any length of time gathered together in their respective homes."

From "Pastoral Theology" by Patrick Fairbairn, first published in 1875.
(Old Paths Publications, Audubon, NJ)

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