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The Life of Rev. John Murray, Preacher of Universal Salvation
The Life of Rev John Murray Preacher of Universal Salvation Author:John Murray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. KECORD CONTINUED, UNTIL THE AUTHOR'S DEPARTURE FROM IRELAND. Launched from the shore, on life's rough ocean tosi, To my swollen eye my star of ... more »guidance lost; Torn, from my grasp, my pathdirecting hehn, While waves succeeding waves my prospects whelm. By the malpractices of the second husband of my maternal grandmother, a large share of my mother's patrimony passed into other hands. I accidentally obtained intelligence of some fraudulent proceedings of the great personage by whom it was then holden. We did not possess ability to support a prosecution for the recovery of our rights. Some time after the demise of my father, the person who resided upon the estate was sued for rent. To this person I communicated, in confidence,, what I knew to be fact. I assured him the great man who retained the estate had no legal claim to it; and I advised him not to pay the rent. He followed my advice, and the business came before a court of judicature. The gentleman who sued the tenant summoned me, as a witness, to prove that the tenant hacf occupied the house the specified number of years. Thus Ihim be might hereafter be compelled to pay it to another. " To whom? " interrogated the court. " To Mrs. Murray and her children, to whom the estate in question properly belongs." I was called upon for an explanation, and I boldly pledged myself to prove the truth of the testimony delivered by the tenant; adding that I could make such a statement as would render the affair abundantly clear to their honors. I was immediately silenced by the lawyers upon the opposite side, who produced a deed of the contested property, signed, sealed, and delivered. I then requested the indulgence of the honorable court, while I observed, that, as I was not sufficiently opulent to procure counsel, I pr...« less