Asa Turner; A Home Missionary Patriarch and His Times (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...Turner left Quincy he saw a Mission Institute erected by Dr. Nelson five miles east, on half of a tract of land bought by him and given to its use. There was to be no tuition, and teachers were to support their families by labor, the students working for them portions of their time. Dr. Nelson "would go to the timber with them, and when tired with work sit down on a log and write his 'Cause and Cure.'" It was finished there, under the shade of four large oaks. He was commissioned for Adams County by the American Home Missionary Society. He continucd to make powerful and touching anti-slavery addresses. He remained for seven years, "unmolested, respected, and beloved," dying at the age of fifty-one in October, 1844. It was about a year later that another struggle occurred, 'An mi im- n. hotel near by supplied mutnal mi.-: lr. nearer St. Louis, in which the central figure was also a Christian minister and a home missionary, and he was murdered by a mnh. It was far more widely known through this catastrophe. Mr. Turner's part in it was less prominent. Tiie Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, commissioned at New York for Missouri, had had his commission extended to Alton, Illinois. The details of his editorship of The St. Louis Observer, a Presbyterian weekl; of his stand alike against abolition and outrages inflicted upon slaves; of the partial destruction of one press at St. Louis, (completed at Alton), and the loss of three others by mobviolence at Alton; of his calm Christian spirit, uimtllled, spiritual, and devout, through it all, --hardly need to be repeated. He was a native of Maine, a graduate of Watcrville College and Princeton Theological Seminary, hatl been an acceptable preacher in New York City, Rhode Island, and...