The Pilgrim's Progress in the Nineteenth Century (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. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... not be promoted by any further publications on those subjects, or personal discussions; and we do hereby engage to cease from all publications, correspondences, conversations, and conduct, designed or calculated to keep those subjects before the public mind; and that, so far as our influence may avail, we will exert it to induce our friends on either side to do the same." To this document was subscribed the names of several leading new-measure men, and three or four others who had been considered on the other side. This was considered by the friends of Mr. Bold, as a triumph. And it was viewed in the same light by such of the friends of Mr. Meek as thought the truth ought to be made known. It was also considered in that light by the enemies of all revivals, as appears from the following remarks of a Unitarian paper. After speaking of it as the coming together of Herod and Pilate, he says: " The Revival Conference broke up, and the eastern men returned home discomfited and dispirited. The revival measures of the notorious Mr. Bold and Mr. Fearless were approved and applauded by their brethren in the Presbyterian Church; and they exulted, as was natural, over the defeat of the intermeddlers from Pilgrim street. We hear nothing more of the matter, till the recent annual meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in South street gave birth to the following extraordinary treaty of mutual silence, offensive and defensive, against all opposers of orthodox revivals. We see in it a plain proof of the defeat of Dr. the letter-writer on the new measures, and his party, a public desertion of their former ground, and a virtual acknowledgment that they had meddled with what did not concern them." Probably the letter-writer here...