Seamen's Missions
Seamen's Missions

Author: Roald Kverndal

Publisher: William Carey Library

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 9780878084401

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This book will long stand as the foundational study of church missions and ministry to men and women of the sea. International in scope, it covers in detail the efforts, particularly during the past two centuries, to serve the spiritual and moral needs of seafarers. The author, himself a former seafarer and seafarers' chaplain, spent more than fifteen years of painstaking research to compile this fascinating and authoritative book.

Defence of Rev. Charles W. Denison, from the Slanders of the Boston Baptist Bethel Society, and First Baptist Church; Showing the Interest Taken in Th
Defence of Rev. Charles W. Denison, from the Slanders of the Boston Baptist Bethel Society, and First Baptist Church; Showing the Interest Taken in Th

Author: Charles Wheeler Denison

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781230150611

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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. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... a liar, a hypocrite, an impostor and a swindler? Is there any motive that could possibly have urged me to such a course? No, my friends, I am an innocent man; and when the clouds that God in His infinite wisdom has thrown around me, shall be rolled away by his ever-merciful band, I doubt, not, you will be among the first to hail my returning brightness. Is it a crime for a minister to be in debt? Then were Whitefield, and RytAHD, the greatest of criminals--for they both were laid under censure on account of their devotion to the cause of God, leaving them but little time to attend to their pecuniary offices. Should ministers be excluded on such accounts, where their motives are good? Then Dr. Beecher should have been driven from the ministry in this very city; then John Gano should never have been allowed to leave in regular standing, the First Baptist Church in New York. I do not name these cases to extenuate myself. So far as I have been imprudent in managing my money matters, as those good men were, I am willing to suffer; but I beg that my character may be spared. I have given up property, time, strength and health, to do good to my fellow-men; and I only lament, that I did not have ten thousand dollars, to one, that I might have consecrated them all to Christ. It may be asked, why I did not appeal to my family friends, some of whom are wealthy? I answer--I had too much independence of character. I felt that it was and is my duty to exert myself in my own support--and I shall do it. I cannot close this communication, dear friends, without assuring you that I feel in my heart that God has sanctified and is sanctifying these sore trials to my good. He has learned me by them several valuable lessons, which I trust I shall never forget....