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Re-union in the Heavenly Kingdom, and Other Discourses
Re-union in the Heavenly Kingdom and Other Discourses Author:William Anderson 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: term preferred by their author when speaking of his pulpit productions—which ought to receive a wide welcome. If its contents do not increase, they will fully su... more »stain his pastoral reputation, and present him under aspects not less marked and like himself, and still more generally chastened and mellowed than the matter of former issues. Private and congregational attachments may naturally crave details and features of life and work not exhibited on the broader scale of portraiture or in the literary specimens already furnished. It is, however, to be considered that memorials which might have served the purposes of a limited or official connection, would have been less suited to the wider circle of readers which it was obviously desirable to interest in the signal worth of the departed, who belonged so much less exclusively than most to his congregation, or denomination, or any social circle, and so much more to the Church catholic and universal humanity, that he is fittingly presented to the public in his broadest relations to the Church and Society. The congregation of " John Street"—the best monument of his labours, and indissolubly connected with his fame—has been honoured by him, as few congregations could be, in his Jubilee tribute. Its members are to be congratulated on the new evidence supplied by the present volume of the pulpit variety afforded them under the ministrations which can hardly be said to have passed away, since they renew themselves on the printed page, and return with the pathos of a voice from the dead. Dr. Anderson, while more than most of his contemporaries a platform power, was eminently a preacher. To the pulpit, or preparation for it, which with him included a wide variety of exercises—observations, ponderings, and researches—he gave the best of his tim...« less