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The Remains of the Rev. Ralph Waller, Comprising a Memoir, and His Lectures on the Doctrine of Sanctification, Ed. by W. Cooke
The Remains of the Rev Ralph Waller Comprising a Memoir and His Lectures on the Doctrine of Sanctification Ed by W Cooke Author:Ralph Waller General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 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 VI. Mr. Waller's Appointment To Sheffield -- The Depressed State Of The Circuit The Srirjt In Which He Entered Upon Hi8 Larours The Work Of Conversion Regins Letters To The Rev. A. Lynn Mr. Addyman's Testimony As To His Daily Harits And Extraordinary Zeal Extracts From His Diary His Health Fails And He Is Compelled To Suspend His Larours His. Reflections On This Solemn Event His Love To The Ministry Settles In Rusiness Letters To Messrs. Lynn, Fowler, Cooke, And Tate His Last Illness, And State Of Mind His Death EstiMate Of His Character. At the Conference of 1846, Mr. Waller was appointed to labour in the Sheffield north circuit. He entered upon his duties with uncommon fervour and earnestness, and laboured with a degree of zeal which surpassed his strength and hastened his dissolution. He yearned for the salvation of sinners; his soul was inflamed with zeal for the divine glory, and his spirit could find no rest unless sinners were brought to God. He found the circuit in a very depressed and languid state. Dissensions, alienations, heterodoxy, and various inconsistencies, had shorn its strength, diminished its numbers, and reduced it to a state of weakness and embarrassment which greatly beclouded its prospects of future prosperity. Almost every country society was in as unpromising a state as the town itself. But Mr. Waller spread the state of the circuit before God in agonizing prayer, at once entered upon his regular work as a revivalist; preaching a free and full salvation, and grappling with the conscience of the flagrant sinner and the cold formalist, in the most earnest and...« less