---
title: 'The Supreme Element of the Minister’s Message'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Egbert Watson Smith'
date: 1918-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Pastoral Theology'
- 'Foreign Missions'
scriptures:
- 'Galatians 1'
- 'Luke 15'
- 'Matthew 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/smith-1918-the-supreme-element-of-the-ministers-message
---

# The Supreme Element of the Minister’s Message

Argues that the minister bears supreme responsibility and that the heart of his message is his conception of God. Ministers must adopt a universal, missionary, fatherly view of God.

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