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title: 'Plumer on the Work of a Theologian'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-06-15
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-plumer-on-the-work-of-a-theologian
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# Plumer on the Work of a Theologian

“Let him, who would have religious truth dwell in him richly, spare no pains, but maintain severe habits of thought and inquiry, denying himself all luxuriousness and effeminacy, and subjecting all his powers to a wholesome discipline.” — [**William S. Plumer**](/authors/william-swan-plumer), *The Right Temper for a Student of God*'*s Word* - *Inaugural Address at Columbia Theological Seminary* (1868)