This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original
book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...have our minister here;"
while at the same time they hinder all he can do. If he could, he
would tear himself right away, and go where there is no minister,
and where the people would be willing to receive the gospel. But
there he must stay, though he cannot get the church into a state to
have a revival once in, three years, to last three months at a
time. It might be well for him to say to the church, "Whenever you
are determined to take one of these long naps, I wish you to let me
know it, so that I can go and labor somewhere else in the mean
time, till you are ready to" wake again." 3, Many churches cannot
be blessed with a revival, because they are spunging out of other
churches, and out of the treasury of the Lord, for the support of
their minister, when they are abundantly able to support him
themselves. Perhaps they are depending on the Home Missionary
Society, or on other churches, while they are not exercising any
self-denial for the sake of the gospel. I have been amazed to see
how some churches live. One church that I was acquainted with,
actually confessed that they spent more money for tobacco than they
gave for missions. And yet they had no minister, because they were
not able to support one. And they have none now. And yet there is
one man in that church who is able to support a minister. And still
they have no minister, and no preaching. The churches have not been
instructed in their duty on this subject. I stopped in one place
last summer, where there was no preaching. I inquired of an elder
in the church, why it was so, and he said it was because they were
so poor. I asked him how much he was worth. He did not give me a
direct answer, but said that another elder's income was about $500
a year, and I...
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