Centenary History of the South Place Society Based on Four Discourses Given in the Chapel in May and June, 1893; Based on Four Discourses Given in the Chapel in May and June, 1893 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... iv It 1836 Mr. Fox had to economise his strength; he gave up the Monthly Repository to Richard Henry Home in July (from whom in the year following it passed to Leigh Hunt). From this time the Sunday evening discourses were more frequently delivered by others; and on February 27, 1840, Rev. Philip Harwood, who had been occasionally heard, was invited to become Mr. Fox's coadjutor. Mr. Harwood, previously Unitarian minister at Bridport, had gained reputation by a sermon in Edinburgh, in which he rationalised St. Paul's conversion, causing his exclusion from St. Mark's pulpit in that city. He was naturally invited here, and began with startling discourses on Strauss' "Leben Jesu." That famous work was not yet translated, and Harwood's discourses, which were published, first awakened This caused a secession, and formation of the short-lived Clyde Street Society (1839). Mr. Fox had (1823) dedicated the Young Street Society, which in 1833 built St. Mark's. public interest in it. It is a fact characteristic of Mr. Fox's method, that though he had really taken away the basis of supernaturalism, the superstructure only began to tumble palpably under Harwood, whose heresy Fox had to defend. Relief from evening discourses rendered Mr. Fox's morning efforts the more effective. My friend, Mr. J. A. Lyon, remembers Mr. Harwood as "a very quiet, sedate preacher, pleasant to listen to, but not such as would induce me to come from a distance to hear him." He did not remain long, though he parted with the Society pleasantly, and for some time attended its dinners. He resigned the pulpit on September 23, 1841, having been engaged by the Philosophical Institution in Beaumont Square. But young Mr. Beaumont, not liking Harwood's theology, removed him, and he went into journalism. He...