Excerpt from Importance of a Minister's Reputation: A Sermon; Delivered at the Installation of the Rev. Nathaniel Hewit, as Pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Christ, in Bridgeport, Conn;, Dec, 1, 1830 A good name is of great value to a minister, as it gives a salutary influence to his example. If his reputation is unblemish ed his daily conduct, - the whole course of his life will have a happy effect upon the minds of his people, and will powerfully attract them to copy his excellencies. But only let them observe or hear any thing which mars his ministerial character, and they will quickly regard with suspicion his most Virtuous actions, and his most amiable dispositions, and so even that part of his exam ple which is right, will lose its salutary influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.