DROPS FROM THE DEEP WELL: A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF SOME OF THE PARABLES. BY W. WELDON CHAMPNEYS, M.A. RECTOR OF WHITECHAPEL. Seeleys FLEET STREET, AND HANOVER STREET, HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON: MDCCCLII. 101.d.132. PREFACE. Every Minister of Christ is a Steward. The great Master of the "household of faith" has himself told us what the duty of the spiritual steward is-viz. "to give to every one of his fellow-servants his portion of meat in due season." The great household, over which he has made his Ministers "overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood," contains not only fullgrown persons but little children-not only "those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil," but those of "tender age." Now while the "men" require "strong |