The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ... generous public to the objects of The Christian Tract Society. The times, it is confidently hoped, are gone by not only in this, but in almost every civilized portion of the globe, when the majority of the rich could delight in keeping the poor in profound ignorance, as the best or only means of rendering them subservient to their own unbounded love of pleasure or their insatiable cupidity. But if these times are gone by in Great Britain, how is it to be accounted for that The Christian Tract Society's publications are not more known--that they are not circulated among the poor and youth in general in a tenth part of the ratio of their intrinsic worth? Have any ministers publicly advocated the objects of the Society?--Though they might not be influenced by what is stated in the 6th Rule, viz." The Committee shall be empowered to appoint any Ministers of Congregations, who may have preached Sermons on behalf of the Society, members for life"--yet their affection for youth and their pious desire to instruct the ignorant, it is hoped, may ere long induce many of those who cannot be doubted to possess these feelings, to become the advocates of a Society whose Tracts, as a whole, may safely challenge comparison with those of any Society in existence. Warwickshire Monthly Meeting of Ministers. On Wednesday the 7th inst. a Monthly Meeting of Ministers was held at the Old Meeting, Alcestcr, Warwickshire. There were eight Ministers present. The Rev. James Scott, of Cradley, offered up the prayer before Sermon, and the Rev. James Yates delivered an interesting Sermon from Deut. xxix. 29. The reporter cannot pretend to do justice to this excellent Sermon, in which the preacher, with great force of language and of reasoning, shewed that mysteries, beyond the...