Author: Edwin Warriner

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9780332210070

Excerpt from Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, N. Y: An Illustrated Centennial Record, Historical and Biographical There is much in the history of every church, and in the life-story of each individual Christian to illustrate and magnify the grace of God. A short time before that eloquent minister of Jesus Christ Thomas Sewall, rose in rap ture to the upper skies, he said to a friend: I reckon that most of the litera ture of heaven will be the storied illustration of divine wisdom and goodness in the experience of poor, saved sinners. O my God! On those bright shelves of marvels, far down and obscure, yet there may a little tract be found, entitled, 'how it pleased God through Jesus Christ, his Son, to save soul of Thomas Sewall. While it is neither possible nor needful that there should be in this world such impartial, unerring, and all-comprehending records as heaven will dis close, when we shall know even as also we are known, yet in my opinion, we might and should possess a carefully prepared history of the work of the people of God in each particular locality, and at least a brief record of the lives of the ministers and members of every church. This desirable work I have ac complished in the case of one of the older and more prominent societies of our Methodism, The history of Old Sands Street Church for about one hundred years. Including a roll of all the ministers, officers, etc., is condensed into nine brief chapters, so that the far greater part of this work is biographical. About four score and ten pastors and presiding elders, most of whom are deceased, have by appointment of the authorities ministered to this church. To the care fully written biographies of these preachers I have added as complete an ao count as I could give of the nineteen hundred members whose names are found in the books. A friend, referring to the large number of memorials of eminent men here grouped about the history of one local church, with characteristic hu mor remarked, It seems like hanging a very heavy weight on a very small nail. 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.