PASTORS:
COMMITMENT; A.B. SIMPSON

By the time he [A. B. Simpson] was ten he already had a secret yearning to become a minister, and while still short of his teens he was struggling with the idea, desiring to be a minister, but unwilling to pay the price. The preachers he knew in those days must have been a dour and artificial lot, for the sum of his testimony is that he wrestled with himself over the question of whether to become a minister or to flee the service of the church and remain a human being.

Wingspread: A.B. Simpson, A Study in Spiritual Altitude, 18.