The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns, Volumen1Chalmers & Collins, 1821 |
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Página 212 - Administration would have reason to count for the most effective aid, in the contest of disaffection and disloyalty against the regular authorities of the land. The minister who had earned the confidence of his people, by urging the faithful exposition of all Scripture upon them, stands on a high and secure vantage ground, when, out of that indelible record, he bids them honour the king, and obey magistrates, and meddle not with those who are given to change, and lead a quiet and a peaceable life,...
Página 312 - Church the theological literature of our nation stands indebted for her best acquisitions ; and we hold it a refreshing spectacle, at any time that meagre Socinianism pours forth a new supply of flippancies and errors, when we behold, as we have often done, an armed champion come forth in full equipment from some high and lettered retreat of that noble hierarchy. Nor can we grudge her the wealth of all her endowments when we think how well, under her venerable auspices, the battles of orthodoxy have...
Página 46 - ... and miscellaneous activity, as to spend his life in meditation and prayer. The former is positively the easier course of existence. The two habits suit very ill together; and, in some individuals, there is an utter incompatibility betwixt them. But should the alternative be presented, of adopting the one habit or the other, singly, the position is unquestionable, that it were better for the ease, and the health, and the general tone of comfort and cheerfulness, that a man should lend out his...
Página 26 - ... may at length attain an assimilation in point of result to a country parish, though not in the means by which he arrived at it. He can in his own person maintain at least a pretty close and habitual intercourse with the more remarkable cases ; and as for the moral charm of cordial and Christian acquaintanceship, he can spread it abroad by deputation over that part of the city which has been assigned to him.
Página 214 - ... independence, and ardently prosecuting the literature of their order, or the labour of love in their parishes — the intent and engrossing aim of such a priesthood is to rear a generation for eternity. But still the blessings which they would scatter along the path of time are also incalculable. The promise of the life that now is, as well as of the life that is to come, is attendant upon all their exertions.
Página 60 - ... and unsocial aspect, on a city population. The common system of Sabbath schooling, has none of these advantages. The families that furnish children to the same teacher, may lie at a wide physical distance from each other ; and it is therefore seldom that he holds any week-day intercourse at all, with the few and scattered houses out of which his scholars repair to him — or that he maintains any common understanding with the parents about their young — or that he joins his guardianship with...
Página 90 - But the case is widely different, when the appetite for any good, is short of the degree in which that good is useful or necessary; and, above all, when just in proportion to our want of it, is the decay of our appetite towards it. Now this is, generally speaking, the case with religious instruction. The less we have of it, the less we desire to have of it. It is not with the aliment of the soul, as it is with the aliment of the body. The latter will be sought after; the former must be offered to...
Página 68 - Any one, or, at most, two philanthropists, may set forth upon such an experiment. They will soon, in the course of their inquiries, be enabled to verify the actual state of our city families, and, at the same time, their openness to the influence of a pervading operation. Let them, for this purpose, make their actual entrance upon a district, which they have previously chalked out as the ground of their benevolent enterprise; and it were better, that it should be in some poor and neglected part of...
Página 298 - ... and most amply, to provide for it. But, lastly, we know not a more interesting case that can be submitted to a deacon, than when an applicant proposes, for the first time, to draw relief from a public charity. This he is often compelled to do, from some temporary distress, that hangs over his family : and if the emergency could be got over without a public and degrading exposure of him who labours under it, there would both be a most substantial saving of the public fund, and a most soothing...
Página 314 - ... of profoundest argument, or when, as a Christian minister, he deals forth upon his hearers the simplicities of the Gospel ; whether it is, when we witness the impression that he made, by his writings, on the schools and high seats of literature, or the impression that he made, by his unlabored addresses, on the plain consciences of a plain congregation.