Records of the Life of W.H. Havergal (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. 1883 Excerpt: ...eminently practical in application. In a mechanical point of view they are most comfortable reading. You adopt the plan I always follow, that of numbering the divisions and subdivisions of the subject by figures, instead of writing in unmarked continuity, which greatly increases a reader's difficulty of comprehension.... Yours most truly, G. S. Faber." From the Rev. Charles Bradley "my Dear Havergal, I have received your sermon, and thank you for it. It is pleasant, nice reading. But the "THE OLD HUNDREDTH PSALM TUNE." 203 Sermons Their chief value in my eyes is their suggestiveness. They contain 'seeds of thought.' Of course to ordinary lay readers this excellence in them might not be perceived; but there are other excellences which the commonest mind might discover. Your mind is eminently practical; may I say, though logical it is not metaphysical? On historical subjects you are unrivalled; no author that I know, save Bishop Hall, comes near you. Your style is racy, and has quaintnesses which some would think might be removed; but I like the raciness, and moreover we preachers like a new word now and then as well as a new idea. I am sure we shall find your sermons very helping. The time with me is very short; I feel as though I had never preached my Master's Gospel fully yet, and long to preach it before I die. Pray for me. Yours gratefully and affectionately, Charles Bradley." In this year also my father wrote " A History of the Old Hundredth Psalm Tune with Specimens," for which the Right Rev. J. M. Wainwright, D.D., Bishop of New York, wrote a preface, and it was published there in April, 1854. In the last month of his life my father began to write a preface for a new edition. Dr. Wainwright's prefatory note so well ...