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The Life of Adam Clarke

The Life of Adam Clarke

Dunn, Samuel

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ISBN10: 1150406577
ISBN13: 9781150406577
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.19 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1863. Excerpt: ... 10 IV. HIS ITINERANCY. The love of God was no sooner shed abroad in his heart, than he felt a yearning pity, a burning charity, for his friends and fellow-creatures. He not only induced his parents to have family worship on the morning and evening of every day in the week, as well as on the Sabbath, which they had. been accustomed to have; but he also consented, though it was a heavy cross, regularly to officiate himself. He had his reward. All his relatives became hearers of the Methodists, and most of them members of Society. He then began to exhort his neighbours to turn to God. On the Sabbath he went, in all weathers, a distance of more than six miles to meet a class, which assembled so early that in the winter he had to set out two hours before day. When he had met his class, he proceeded to the nearest village, and, entering the first open door, said, Peace be to this house! If consent was given, he called in the neighbours, prayed, and gave a short exhortation. This done, he went to another village, and repeated the same plan, and so on through the day. But though he joined the Society in 1778, he did not venture to preach before June 19, 1782. This was at New Buildings, a village five miles from Derry, and the text was 1 John v. 19. The hearers were so well pleased that they entreated him to preach to them the next morning at five. This he did, from 1 John iv. 19. Mr. Bredin, one of the Preachers in the Circuit, believing that his young friend was called to the work of the ministry, wrote to Mr. Wesley concerning him, who immediately offered to take Adam into Kingswood School, near Bristol. When this proposal was communicated to his parents, they were quite indignant. His father would neither speak to him, nor see him. His mother told him, that, if he left them, he would ...

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