A Retrospect Of Forty Five Years Christian Ministry

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Excerpt from A Retrospect of Forty-Five Years' Christian Ministry: Public Work in Other Spheres of Benevolent Labour, and Tours in Various Lands, With Prayers on Theological and Other Subjects in Prose and Verse A Public life of some fifty years, involving a pastorate of nearly forty, in London, must of necessity have brought me into contact with many of the chief men of the day, as well as with the leading events of our times. And during the whole course of British history no period has been so productive of extraordinary changes with regard to our political or moral condition; nor has there ever been such a period of rapid progress as to literature, philosophy, or the arts and sciences of our country. Also as to our rapidly growing commerce and our constantly enlarging trading relations with other lands. Our ecclesiastical condition, despite the continuance of a State Church, is marvellously improved, and all the sections of Nonconformists have been flourishing beyond the most sanguine hopes of their devoted friends. What a power for the consolidation and extension of civil and religious liberty is the threefold cord of the Dissenting denominations of Congregationalists, Baptists, and Presbyterians! What religious life and spiritual vigour among the various Methodist Societies! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.