A Memoir of the Reverend Alexander Waugh, with Selections from His Correspondence, Pulpit Recollections, (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER II. Mr. Waugh's ministry in London. Visit to Scotland in 1783. Private diary. His marriage. Ordination of Rev. Alexander Easton. Intercourse with Rev. John Newton. Deliverance from danger at sea. Address to the congregation on his illness. Visit to Scotland in 1806, for recovery of health. Memorial on the Psalmody. Congregational addresses. Accident at Clapton in 1823. Increasing infirmities. Letters to old friends ? youthful reminiscences. Letters from Har- rowgate. Funeral sermon on Rev. Dr. Bogue. Delight in ministerial duties. Kindness and liberality of his congregation. Correspondence respecting an assistant. His last public services. Character of his pulpit ministrations. His lectures in Fetter Lane, and c. Congregational labours. Anecdote. Non-interference in church secularities. Christian liberality. When a minister removes from one part of the church to another, the change will lead to serious reflections. Besides the painful feelings of separation, he will often find reason for bitter regret, in the recollection of various instances of important duties which have been neglected, with many precious opportunities of doing good, never to return; and many anxieties will press on his mind regarding the difficulties of his new situation, the temptations to which he may be exposed, the obstructions he may have to surmount, and the steadfastness of the affection expressed by the people among whom he is probably to spend the remainder of his life. The station to which Mr. Waugh was now appointed, as minister of the Secession church in London, involved in it arduous duties of a different kind from those which had hitherto occupied his attention in a small country charge, arising out of the various classes of which his new congregation was composed, the different occupations in which they were ...