In The Divinity School Address, Emerson speaks one what he believes is the right way to serve God and the people of his church. He talks of how a Minister should speak of God's glory and help to expand the faith of the parishioners. He denounces those who use fear in instilling people with God's word and says that a Minister that opens his own life to his people will have great effect on them. &…showed first 75 words of 372 total…

…showed last 75 words of 372 total…them and allowing them to know his own life; "The true preacher can always be known be this, that he deals out to the people his life, - life passed through the fired of thought" (1155). Emerson believes that a good Minister should help his people through their doubts of faith by reassuring them that he too has doubted before; "let their doubts know that you have doubted, and their wonder feel that you have wondered" (1158).