Newspapers / The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, … / July 12, 1845, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
s. 1 . , 4 , r " -tU);-"-- i'V:.-.T 1VALEI OH, S AT UllD AY,' J u X y 12 1845' s ' ' I . ii - r m i - iJMa iU. " J The Recorder is TERMS. , published every Saturday, snrt nt m subscribers atTWo Dollars per annum, payable in all ctf be delayed longer than fArg mmMi .- dollar and fifty cents will be charged and if longer than ":nnh3. three dollars. , HCOiuul"v''"'T', " -vui ttiiouiiun, uiusr ue post J- r tf . otherwise the subscriber will be held responsible fbr another annual term. ... T Jwcontinuawftf will he allowed until arrearages arc 0Jd except by special agreement to that efllxjt. I : . ideertiseiaents, adapted to the character of the paper, -ill be inserted at the usual rates. , s , i r!. names, &.c. &.c., may be transmitted, through the attention of Post Masters, generally free of expense, tndatthe risk of thfc proprietor. i All orders, not attended to in a reasonable time, should be repeated; and ajl remittance not duly receipted, should be inquired aferthat errors and. oversights may be promptly corrected. . J -' .' Persons sending usisix new names of subscribers with ihm money tor one year encioseu, snaa oe enutiea lo a i vonth cony for their services. Mnulesot Associktions, pamphlets,' and books.ofall Jascriptions, ivill be printed with neatness, and o n ac commodating terms Frorn the Boston Atlas. A PULPIT PORTRAITROBERT IIAILJ, In the foremost ank of modern : pulpit orators vas Kabert HaH, and he was scarcely less eccen tric as a man than I- remarkable as a preacher.- His vorks which tiave been c reprinted in Amer ica, will ever remain an enduring monument of bis piety, his geniu$, and his learning. Toj give some account of th man himself is my present obj-'ct. ", I . j , Long before I ever saw this truly : great man. I had heard his name frequently : mentioned; in swgniest noise, ana whose voice was so low, and at times tremulous, that Sunless perfect stillness was kept, it, was a matter of difficulty to hear him; , - ,? - It is needless to say that Hall's pulpit talents must h ive been very great, to attract such men as those I have just mentioned., Even ministers of the church from which he dissemed, "were of ten to be : found among his hearers j and more than once have seen members of the bench of Bishops, who, having thrown aside .their mitres, crosiers, and 'lawn sleevesj submitted to be "hail fellow well met" with the members of on Humbler community, for the sake of hearing the Cicero of the day. s ; ' 1 ' ' ' 1 ; The services preliminary ' to the sermon had been nearly gone through, and the last verse of a. hymn was sung,' when Mr. Hall ascended slowly, and, ! thought wearily, the pulpit stairs. No one, looking at his unwieldy and rather ungraceful fig. Ore, would huve been prepossessed in', his favour, and, as he sat down on the pulpit, and looked lan guidly round iu the congregation, I experienced, I knew not why, a feeling of disappointment. 'ri i . He arose and read, his text, The Father of Ll2tlt some of his sallies. In repartee I never knew anv nt t; CLr t .i j-' one sa britliant. Of course, IU pipe wa, Xa7. Lid provided-and drawing roo McU had,:! as subjected, ,n . a ' - " w t i I i iv i. n i rnii n a n . . O in tno navlnm t.. was placed, to coercion. This he well VemrmUr. Id, often allude to it. I onco heard rge party, cjcpaiiate eloquently on the a. melioration of the condition nf w wv During the process cf the ,n,nl : 1 . -"K, lor Mia 'fuc S- ..... " . . i'J ,TU,1C JK cauiuucu soma scars on his head, it y - OUSlv been frtn1it, t,Airn ... . t .ubjected lathe nukuncc, iu Mr. Hair. cnw. S ' 'T H.. uUencecf miaU vo. rcmarkabl,, 0o ? es,hy c? w. m, . Md 21 141 r I ' rr .riu iiaiLv. j i t ivmpn ni. i t ' D i j , - - ".vu iiir. ivnn H'nrn Hall was one. tea spoons began to grow scarce. No no knew s. ward him by his asking, with every fresh cun ;for a teaspoon. - "Where can they have gone tol" murmured the lady j but no solution to the mys tery was found.; Hall kept on for a1 Ion time, talking, sipping, and asking for more ; At length he came to a iinish, and the tea things werere moved but VU were the spoonsl In about an hour afterwards Mr. Hall Icltf and on the so where he sat were discovered the missing articles. Of course a' general laugh follovci the clearing up of the mystery. " On Mr.' Halia returning to the xoom, he was informed of his Unconscious pet- tv larcenv. hnf h fli&.-iiifit nil L- u.l e At first his voice was scarcely audible, affair7 r ? i s i .. and there appeared some .light hesitation ; but ; During Mr HalPs residence in Bristol, the hi this soon wore o and as he warmed wuh his burn-mania raged to n terrible extent, and' it was subject he poured forth such a continuous stream scarce! v. orohable thm ,. . .i.. A T " -.-w io'iiuhii wa tiU 1419 -I.. U ; - . . ... I L . I J. . where thev , tn nd n ,nv..MV ". f "U4 w " per, -these are the hin-:;... I 1 k, t , I" VVU w wounu w'ch I received 6 cungu. iuf. iiuu whs an lovet- friends " T - viiuacr, uuu uiicnuuii m . UlTCClCU tO' my father's family,' ciate with it all that1 and 1 early learned to asso- was gieat and extraordinary. My mother would tell me how she had often Ween him, when a student in the Bantist Theological Seminary at Bristol, pacing the streets with only f one stocking on, of occasionally with two on 1 one foot. And from all Quarters I gleaned such infor mation respecting him as tnade me long to behold the man of whom such Sitories were related. 4 1 i It must be now nearly twenty years since I first saw htrn. He was at that tine pastor of a church at Leicester, a.rid he visited Bristol, where I then a missionary anniversa- connected with which be had engaged to preach! much, 'I heard, against his own inclination, for he had an unconquerable dis like to making his appearance on such public oc- resided, on the occasion of a ry: one of the sermons com casions. of elonuence that it seemed n if - it flinvw) frrnr I -i " uuuiu escape us consequences or did he. Oue some inexhaustible source. His tones tvere, al- instance of an attack upon hin, fell under" my own though low, beautifully modulated ; but owing to notice and it.wna vf.rv'rr.,,,,,;.,;,; ir .i- My father happening to hold the office of dea eon io the church wherjp Mr. H ill was to officiate; 'ivent with hiin. on the ereninff in auestion. to (At place of ivorship, and accompanied him, before the wvice commenced into tbe-vestrVi HieJiud-i Jm although it wanted ( yet an hour to the time fixecf for commencing the service, was densely thronged in every part, and perhaps a more intel lectual assemblage had j never been gathered-together. So popular was! the great orator, at this time, that it was no uncommon thing for the pn lessors at Oxford and Cambridge, to leave , their respective Universities on Saturday evenings post to Leicester, some hundred and fifty miles or V bear two sermons -,'frtfnv Hall, and return to their hom33 after the evening services thus sac-; tificin two nights' rest, for the sake of indulging in what was considered td be one of the highest ktellectual treats. A On entering the vestry il found a lage, number J". .. . 1 . ..Ll.J I i i.M minister nnri nipf treni lemen assemuieiu unu waiting the arrival of Mr. Hall the scarcely less .celebrated John Foster among them. After we had waited for about a quarter of nh boar, Mr. Hall made his appearance. He was rath er below the average height, stout, and inclining to corpulency. His chest was' very broad ind capacious the face large fcnd Us features mas- sive. His eyes were large, dark, and full, and his forehead high and broad; iThe head,' which' j was Mi, except at the back, and over the temples, M an indiscribable erandeur about, it. iThe worst part of his face was the mouth, which t was very large, and ihe under lip somewhat protrud- the chin was ! lare arid proiectinsf. VThis ?ave an appearance of heaviness to his general as I was at once struck with the expression of al mst torture which was evident in Mr. Jlalfs wpntenance. He seemed ta be constantly endeav onring to conceal bodily sufTering and it was so. for be was in realitv a martvr to one of 'the most painful diseases which can affect humanity cal culi in the kidneys. " ' -v-fter he had divested himself of his "great coat, :he bad a pipe and some tobacco brought, him, and itiawi puged away for a little time, he pulled off dress coat, lay down on ia back on the hearth and was soon enveloped in a cloud of smoke. w$ T learned, was his usual habit before enter- ,r,2 the nulmt. Th aannv he endured comnelled iwn to spend a rreat nortion of his time in a re- ftimbent position, and it was1 only by the use of W0.1CCO and. ooiunn in larffe quantities, that he oulJ ever even obtain comnarative ease. : His stotn was to 'smoke prodigiously until the very Anient arrived when it was required of him to fninence hjs sermon. , Hejwould then rise, leave P'pc at the door of the piilpitr in readiness for m to resume it the moment after . he had coii- ed hWdiscourse. I . 'eft him on his hearth-ruor, and reached a seat some affection of the throat, bis speech was, at I man I shall relate it snort intervals, inierruptea Dy a snort spasmodic ; A vonnrr bdv nmanlntr f mj0. :.i cough. Dunns the delivery of his brilliant oara-1 in tK M.;ntM. ...... r' graphs the most breathless silence reigned through- Hall should contribute eomething to her album out the vast assemblage but his momentary ces- and she begged me to forward it to thegreat man! sationwasthe signal for general relaxation fom with her request backed by mine. 1 did not an attention so intense . that it became J almost m.i, i;v.- ,. k... ... . . i . - . . tt: M,uw' s w iiwucr, u hm m circumsianceu painful. It was curious to observejiow eyery that I could not well refuse. So I nnrLI n ,h neck was stretched out so that not a word which precious book, whose pnges were graced with the fell from those eloquent hps should be. lost. And effusionsof small poetasters and amatorv selections. the suspended breathings of those around me evinc- and desMtehnd it ta Mr: H ,1P - v,, :. ed how intently all were hanging on his charmed remained for some time, and when. hit; it . WOrdS. . : I rotnrol 1T. - Il.ll t 1 ...r .. T n ni ii ' a - , ' , , . . - ? i "v, uxi. tiau wrmcn 1.1 11. Al llie Mr. Hall s lluency was wonderful, and his com- bottoni of a he hnd ; ,;- mand of language unsurpassed. I will not.raar illegible hand . , the beauty of his discurse by attempting; to de- 'r-It is mv humble oninU thnt nll.m. scribe it; but, as I followed him, while, bv his foolish thinrrs. . '. but for my e universe,' what the father of Lights must acteiistic nn nntmnK r ,uJ i be, I became lost in wonder and admlratloni But the most comnllmentarv i;nP, .vK; i' the crowning glory of his sermon was his al- been Denned. i i iusion to the heavenly world, whose beatific glo- Hi, marriage was a .ig,,br oce. One dav. an angel. He seemed like one inspired: and. as of dininr with h'r l, ...t :uit ae guiaea us Dy living streams, and led us over hood. He mid nmhm h. t .,.i.;t- ..m' xtnrvXJj , . " - Ufc subject, and his face beamed as if it reflected j girl who came in to replenish " the lire." Heaven s own lignt. Ana mis was me man wno, i dinner, ue weni into tne garden, sent lor the but an hour before, had lain down on the ground, j young woman, and asked her to marry him. ' In vivid imagination, he conveyed his hearers through My fair friend was sadly annoyed WSV" reasoned, from tlioseflights own part, I slwuld have much prefei oftKe'u in the house - of mv Happily he rtcovered, but lii. friends were ever afterward apprehensive of a recurrenrr. of the malady! r - - race of tic times, be it fin a little time mountains were seen to intlt le- lore ii, ana vaiteys to be exalted; new impuloe was given to, motion, and a new era of improve- . mcnt dawned on the world :- not becante th ge , excelled in gerjiuf bat simply tccaiiFC its tCortn were directed to new nnd really useful and impor tant objects. . ,". , . : So when war slmll cease in the Cvrc vlen the talents and learning. 'which, to the rmrcscb of Chrutiai.ity and to the grkf of bdcIs, have V AT HOME I SWEET IIOilE From 'Songs in the M-hf-a beautiful volume of cred poetry, recently published by lit. TciLiaof Do. S3 s ' i 4 ' i ., ' Where Lurns the fireakle brightest, 'Cncer','' tbeial Lreast? ' Where bcatj the fond heart Ibhteat. ' ' Its ,h uaiLle hoj-cs possessed ( ; Where is the hour of aaJuefs ith raeet-eyed patience Lome f " ' ; Worth more than those of gladness, Winch mirth's gay cheeks adorn ! , Picasuie is mailed with flcetoeu To those who ever roam, . , While jjilef itself has sweetness ' , . At home sweet home ! t There Llcd the tics that strengthen . Our hearts in hours of gric! The silver links that lengthen , , . ". Joy's visits when most brief ; , There, eyes in all their splendor. Are vocal to the hcait, , And glances bright and tender. Fresh ehquence imrt ; Then dost thou'sigh for pleasure I i O Jo not. widely roam, , ; Cufscek'lbat hidden treasure At home sweet home! Dtes pure religion charm tbee, Far more than aught below I . Would'st thou that she should arm tbee Afruinst the hour of wo? Her dwelling is not only In temples built for j raycr. For hone its?If is lonely Unless her smiles be there; . Wherever we may wander, : Tis all in vain we roam. If worshilcss her altar At hume sweet home! been employed. in building sectarian walls, and. guarding Mxtri.n interests, nnd demolifdiinjj such pillars of acknowledged cxcelli-nce in tlChurrh, as did not fully eclo.the sound of the party "Sa. ? tWc'V when these shall boralited m Urmo mous cfTorts to strengthen, cpbuild and extend , the kingdom rf Christ then will Lesin to be re alized what i told in Prophecy, nnd far nwrethan proplicts have sung, or pLiloopljers dreamed of the poI den nge of mankind. . - .-'.. . Ihis is a consummation to be dcircd by tj parties. And perhaps no publications end ro ' movements since the days of Luiher, have given greater cncouragcmctit to Lope, tLit the time is ' at hacd for tlie , general union of philanthropists, in efforts lo stay the progress cf error" and jriro free course to the Gospel, than those; which hare . had their origin in the enlarged, and benevolent -views of D'Acligxe. A. D. ' : IlOilANISH IN THE UEST. ; t ' The annexed remarks : from tie 'ediiorial col-! umns of the Boston Klot, ore sulTicicntly indica-' tivc cf the spirit with which the odheretit. d papal see have entered upon their wtrk in th0 great est. Ahhoogh wc are not so fatuovs es to believe that all is lost because the Jesuit mis- sicnanes r.ave declared that our country shall lo theirs, yet wo tremble when we think with how unit Bpaiay mcir vigorous ond determined move- merits are regarded." Let Protestants" awele to their duty, end our country, with God Ucssin- wui yex oe sate. - - . 'Cathohcs should control and sway the desti nies cf the far West, Catholic enterprise first measured its immense lakes, opened psths in the eternal forests, traced its mighty rivers froni their mountain nurseries to the ocean." The' West was a Conquest of catlio! Jcsuit rpirit if you will evidenced by the pa tience, tne enthusiasm, and the toil of njch mea es Marquette, La Salle, sod Hennepin. valley of the Mississippi of which the Jesuit mis. sionaries were the first explorers, the lands that oan me udw ond the Illinois, and those adjoin. mrr tht rrrm Il-M. H w ing the great lakes. . . ... .i r,?grflrv'.,a t- Srher,frJn; , WiLihat they ore in earncit. i i i i e in the excess of his agony ; and who, from his 1 her astonishment she ran away and said she be earliest years, had constantly endued the most ex- j lieved Mr. Hall had gone mad ngain, (he had been cruciatmg torture which man can be called upon once deranged.) ; Her master, like herself, was to1 bear! I have myself heard him say that he j surprised, and on srx aking with Mr. Hall on the had never known one waking hour free from j ex- subject, the latter declared his intention of marry treme pain. ; , 1 ing the girl, who, he said, had taken his fancy, by Mr; Hall used very little action in the pulpit, j the manner in which she put the coal on. '-They His favorite or, rather, his usual ntlitude was were married, ond lived happily together.' His to' stand and lean his chest against the chushion, widow survives him. his left arm lying on the Bible, and his right hand ; Mr. HpII's popularity increased, but his rest slightly raised with. the palm toward the audience, dence in Bristol was destined lobe short. About His tones were almost uniformerly low, nnd he the year 1829, 1 think, for I have no opportunity rarely raisea mem. lueas seemeu so io accuinn-iui rciernug io me cxaci oaxe, ins ruainuy so in late, while he wrs preaching, that they flowed creased that his life was deemed to be in a very form without , eiiort on. ms part, tiever aiu lie precarious siaie. tie was compciica to taKe large hesitate and so pure were his oral compositions, quantities of opium; in order to endure the pain that the most elaborate efforts or the- pen would of his body but his mindwas as bright ns ever. rather have injured than improved their struc- nis medical attendant told me that he was sud ture. , ! denly called to him one evening. He found him At that time, "William Thorp, another distin- in his chair, with his foot spasmodically propping ffijished preacher flourished in Brisiol : but his the edge of a bath he looked calmly "in hi face claims to eminence rested chiefly on his possess- for a moment said, uThis is death, and then ing a prodigious memory. In speaking of Mr. laying his head oh his shoulder, died without a Thorn and Mr. Hall ' I once heard Coleridce, who groan; ' - . , i . was intimate with both,Temark: ("HalPs mind is A post-mortem examination was made of the : . i 1 .II..' - A ? . ' L.J.. I !!. J .I'll! T.Arn a lountain, wmcn j is evenasimgiy nowing uouy auu eigm or nine cuicuu were c.iruticu uui the kidney s. I hy were of - vn nous sizes, some Of them as large as apea; and from the sides of them, iriany sharp points, the eighth of an inch in length, projected.' 1 These W'ere hternlly "thorns ip the flesh." -During his whole life he could on ly procure partial alleviation of 'pain by lying on his back and smoking. So addicted was he to this latter habit, that I have seen him light his Dioe, after preaching, at the pulpit lamps. viv His 'death cast a gloom over the community far and wide." - For a few days his friends were al lowed to look upon his mortal remains! 'I went, and never was I more impressed with the irrw deur of the man than when he lay in his coffin. On the wall, just over the body, hung Brnn white print of him in the pulpit. There was the pictur ed preacher, ond beneath it the clay tahenacle of him of whom Southey said: uHe bad the elquence of a Cicerothe learning of a Parr, ond the piety of a Whitfield." It is stated in the European Magazines, that at A distinguished Christian writer, after rvrW. a Conference of 1G0 Literary ond Theological ing the operations of the Jesuits in France at the Professors ond Clergymen, lately held at St. Gall present time, thus concludes his address to Amer- in Switzerland, Dr. D'Aubigne, author of the H is- icon Protestants. " lory of the Reformation," submitted the following "What is their aim, then, in politics To di- proposition. minish the power cf kings by means of the people, uThat this Conferrcce regard it es highly desi- ond the power of the people by means of the kins ; rablc, that all evangelical Christians, who hold the to create divisions which will open thcraylbr mystery of godliness, the Lord our righteousness,' their rule, ond to establish wherever they can, should unite in a common Confession of their faith, their ideal theocracy. Their" irreat teacher Bel! nnd thereby manifest in contrast with the cyxi- larmine, taught that the State sliould be subjected rent unity of the Roman Catholic Church, their to the church, as the body is to the mind.. Be it true and spinlual unity; ond that for the attain- rnouarchy or republic, no matter, -provided the mcnt of this end a Committee be oppomted to cor- pope, or rather those who labor in the came of respond with some of the pastoral Conferences re- the pope, the Jesuits, ore the real rulers of re cently established in Germany, end with the tiona. , churches of France, Great Britain, Holland, nnd Tbey have returned to France, es I wrote you America; and further that the said Committee be last year, with unheard of arrogance. I know enjoined to prepare a draft of nn evangelical con not how they get it, but they always have their fession of the nineteenth century, which shall con- hands full of money. They build magnificent tain the fundamental truths of the Word of God, houses for thrmsclres and their disciples. They embraced at present in all confessions-of the Pro- publish books ond journals in abundance. They testant faith ; nnd present these in a form adapted attack unceasingly the most honorable men. The to the times in which we live." bishops write circulars and even newspaper orti- The proposal was received with general oppro-. cles, under the dictation of these reverend fathers. i Thorn's is a reservoir, which can never.be exhaus ted." i - .: - .;;.! . Mr. Hall, like most other men of genious, was somewhat eccentric and possessed powers of sar casm, which, in some instances, he exerted with tremendous force. Few men could say severer things and I will mention an instance. He. had one day attended a Church, where a young minister preached on somejpublic occasion. t so happened that tne preacner met iur. .nan ni erward, at dinner, Qt the bouse of a mutual friend, rhe young man was 'Very anxious to hear Mr, HalPs opinion of his discourse and very partina- ciouslv plied the great, man witn questions res- nectmor it. Hall endured the annoyance, tor some f f . - . ... . i. . . time.' with ereat patience, tie aiu noi wisn.io ' . i . ' . . hurt the voung man's feelings but be could not, conscientiously; laud his sermon- At length, wor rft hpunnil endurance, he said: , , , ; v MWi.lt. Rirthfr( wTis one tine passage ana l W.., w.., ,.f. - ! liked it much, sir much." i The young divine rubbed his hands, in high gleo and pressed Mr. Hall to name it. 1 "Why. sir" replied Hall, "the passage 1 ni t a full Vie w of the pulpit. : The edifice was --any mp. ni,n0st to sutiocation. v A ne great . 5 gifted, and even the' noble were there, all wait bation by the Conference ; who accordingly plac cd the subject in the hands of on Appropriate Com mittee. ' A proposition so timely, so manifestly occord- ant with the spirit ot the uospei, ond emanating from a source so very high in the confidenro of the Christian community, cannot fail to receive a glad response from multitudes of hearts through out Christendom. It presents to those who have deplored the waste of intellectual and moral pow rr. nnd the slow nro?ress of pure religion in the ----- . . ; ... Tlicre ore also. Jcsuitesses, called the Lad'ies of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of mild, artful, insinust ing manners, who try to gain the wives, to secure the husbands, ond the mothers, to secure the chil dren. wl stop here, though I liave much still to say on this subject. Servants of Christ distrust the Jes uits! , Freemen, distrust the Jesuits!- Fathers ond mothers, dktrutt the Jesuits! Forget not that Romanism is now subservient to the influence ond ; control of Jesuitism! WVe know it in France, and THE SCOTCH I.N LOS DOS. world, new, ond most encouraging indications public opinion is owokc." And we can hardly conceive that any true ond in telligent disciple of the Divine Master, who so fer vently prayed that all his "people might be one, can bo so jealous, fearful or sectarian in spirit, ns rot to be gratified with such a proposition. It must contribute very much to kii dlinessof feeling, simply to ascertain in how many important truths the ditlerent evangelical denominations ore enure lyo greed. ' . When the zcal and energies of Chris'ians shall ' Mr. Hall's works have been rc-publishcd in , 'nll be harmoniously employed in efforts to bless thi9 country, and are ranked among, the most elo quent productions of the oge. ' His magnificent ''discourse o.n'modern infidelity has gone ' through l. JoA in w:w itoir vasscure from the pulpit to the ; numberless editions: ond his sermon on the death vestry. ot the Princess Charlotte created such o sensation, n j Tt .ii "c1it.." tr t aoctoi- ntir! Kprnme nas- that it was to be found, m the hands ot ricn onu ,or of the Broadmead Church, in Bristo -so .hat poor, '"erend utho, ffl InftMi had oDDormnities of bearing lnm, ma 01 Jiy "-S C-'B-,v- .5ith ea?rer intpnsitv for the commencement of ervicfi. ; The aisles had jail been-carpeted, ah usual thinir.'it i nwssnrv -tn slate, in those Order that no scuffliiig; of feet should dis-: ' '"hepreacbevwho was nervously alive to the . . . . . u ' . I . . I meeting htm at tne nouses oi muiuui mcuuo. that time, there was talent in mv native ci Thorn. Roberts and others 'all laboured there many were the evenings I spent insuch society. Occasionally, Mr. Hall gave the reins to a sportive fancy a n4 nothing could be more delightful than At the father of the Princess,', in which the monarch quite "a galaxy of ministeral expressed the deep, feelings of his. heart with res-Co, itr Hall Liffchild, Foster pect to his; beloved daughter,' nnd his thanks to ha dr nil lahoured there and him who had so touchinsly commemorated the $ad , nh event of, her death, v '; - During a nortion of his lifeMr. Hall was w - -- . , ranged- de- -excessive study having induced disease mankind, a moral change may be expected I.ir more wonderful than has already been produced by modern improvements in 'the arts and sciences. These have contributed greatly to the advance- ment and hanpincss of mankind, by facilitating in tellectual, social, nnd commercial intercourse; nnd those, to a creat extent, aro the results of peace nmong nations. v When public sentiment necamo in a measure correct on the subject of ' war a subject which .1 given full employment to gigantic minds, and sorbed the resources of nations for oges it was feared by some that the energies of man might become palsied for want of proper stimulus to ac tion. But the genius of; invention awoke j ond Witness S Idtocau. . It is estimated tluil there are one hundred llioa sand native Scotchmen io London. Only four Scotch congregations liave been in existence there, till recently ; and a Scotchman who cannot attend a church of his own denomination will attend no church ot nil Ijcncc not one in ten of the Scotch residents in the city is found in any place nf wor ship; and the usual consequences of such negli gence of divine institutions, are lamentably oppa-. rent in the ignorance end heathenism that abound omong them. Six new congregations have leen resolved upon by the -London Presbyterian church extension ociety" formed a few month ago, and six new places cf ivorship arc in various stages of progress. The effort, though yet in its infancy promises a large reward to the la ith that has commenced it, and some of the six newly resolv ed upon congregations ore already growing rapid ly. The beneficent spirit wbichMhus provides for the "household of faith," though it be our own, is eminently scriptural, ond every where-to bo commended. r t . 4 ' . 4 j - , t ' , "' I, 1. '-i It - ;n ...... . 1 1 1. . : i - y L . ' . 4 . . . i . . i L . Pi - t . t . . t .. . - , . r . 5 ' V 1 ' . . . . . ' . ' ' - i - . , i ; X ' . '" ; . t- - , -. ; ;i ' V..' : ' J t ' v, , i - I
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 12, 1845, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75