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Recollections of My Life and Times, an Autobiography by J. Morgan, With Selections From His Journal Ed. by His Son [t. Morgan].
Recollections of My Life and Times an Autobiography by J Morgan With Selections From His Journal Ed by His Son - t. Morgan Author:James Morgan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. MY MINISTRY IN BELFAST. Invitation to Preach in Fisherwick Place -- Delicate Health -- Rev. Henry Cooke -- The Town of Belfast -- Character of the Place -- Deadness of the Synod of Ulster -- Deficiency of Church Accommodation -- Fisherwick Place -- Want of School-houses and Sabbath-Schools -- Liberalism -- Drinking Habits -- Desire for Reformation -- Origin of Presbyterianism in Ulster -- Subscription to the Confession Relaxed -- Recollections of the Synod in Cookstown -- No Missions -- Rising Dissatisfaction -- The Belfast Academical Institution -- A Momentous Struggle -- The Triumph of Orthodoxy -- Withdrawal of the Remonstrants -- Dr. Cooke -- Dr. Montgomery -- Dr. Stewart -- Synod Adopts the Old Standards. I WAS very happy in Lisburn, well satisfied with it, and fully occupied when I was invited to leave it. This I was reluctant to do, and two reasons weighed with me. I had great doubts of my capacity for the place I was called to fill. I was not robust in health, but had been delicate for some time. So far had this delicacy gone that, when I was asked to preach for a day in Fisherwick Place, among others appointed to supply it, I declined to preach two sermons, and did deliver only one. Besides, I did not feel confident that I was the person to engage in a new, untried, and difficult sphere of ministerial duty, which was looked upon by all as an experiment of doubtful issues. There was another whom it was my anxious desire the congregation would call in my stead. This was Mr. Cooke. It seemed to me that the public voice, and his peculiar talents pointed to him CALL TO BELFAST. 39 ...« less