The Biblical Repertory and Theological Review (Volume 3) (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. 1831. Excerpt: ... Article V--MEMOIR AND SERMONS OF THE REV. EDWARD PAYSON, D. D. J3 Memoir of the Rev. Edward Pay son, D. D., late Pastor of the Second Church in Portland. By Jlsa Cummings, Editor of the Christian Mirror. Second Edition, Boston, Crocker & Brewster. New York, J. Leavitt, 1830, 8vo. 12mo. pp. 400. Sermons by the late Edward Payson, D. D., Portland. Shirley and Hyde, 1828, 8vo. pp. 503. We think that no man can rise from the perusal of the works which we have placed at the head of this article, but with deep, and in some respects, melancholy emotions. It will not be so much, that he has been conversing with a man naturally of melancholy temperament, though it will not be strange if he rises with some of the shades hovering over him, which occasionally darkened Payson's path. It may not be, that he is looking upon the only memorials that remain of a personal friend. But it will be, that this shining light, so far as the earth is concerned, is extinguished; that this burning, rapid, etherial heaven-born spirit, that so well knew the way to the human heart, and so faithfully rebuked crime, and so victoriously raised the standard of the Messiah whenever he went forth to spiritual battles, has gone where the din of conflict is unheard. age, and left it too, we fear, because he did not hear the cautious voice of prudence, till it was too late. The tongue sleeps in death, unable to speak for its master; and the eye is closed unfeared by the sinner, made speechless and dim to all human appearance, by a zeal too ardent for the frail body, and by disregarding the lessons of colder, but more useful wisdom. These works are all that remain as memorials of this faithful and successful minister of the Gospel. To us he was personally a stranger. Yet we had heard of his name;...