Whittingham, William R. The Ministry Called to Self-Denial: A Sermon, preached at the Matriculation of Students in the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, on the Evening of the Third Sunday in Advent, Dec. 15, 1839, in St. Peter's Church, New-York. New-York: Xylographic Press, 1840. First Edition. [11116]
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The text is St. Luke 9:60, "Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God."
The author encourages young ministers to forsake the attractions and comforts that their companions enjoy who are not called to preach the gospel, and to preach the kingdom of God with all earnestness.
William Rollinson Whittingham (1805-1879), b. New York City; d. Orange, New Jersey. He was an 1825 graduate of the General Theological Seminary, and received the Doctor of Sacred Theology degree from Columbia University in 1827. At 26 years of age he became rector of St. Luke's Church, New York City, in 1831, but by 1834 had to resign due to ill health. He was advised to travel to a dry climate for recovery, and spent fifteen months in Gibraltar & Sicily. He returned and became professor of ecclesiastical history at the General Theological Seminary, and four years later was chosen Bishop of Maryland, a post in which he served for the next forty years.
