The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London: Illustrated by His Journals and Correspondence, Tom 1Hurst and Blackett, 1862 |
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Strona 66 - haill toun," profoundly critical and much interested, turned out to hear him ; even his ancient teachers, with solemn brows, came out to sit in judgment on Edward's sermon. A certain excitement of interest, unusual to that humdrum atmosphere, thrilled through the building. When the sermon was in full current, some incautious movement of the young preacher tilted aside the great Bible, and the sermon itself, that direful " paper " which Scotch congregations hold in high despite, dropped out bodily...
Strona 247 - I speak of thee, my Edward ! seeing it was in the season of thy sickness and death the Lord did reveal in me the knowledge and hope and desire of His Son from heaven? Glorious exchange! He took my son to His own more fatherly bosom, and revealed in my bosom the sure expectation and faith of His own eternal Son ! Dear season of my life, ever to be remembered, when I knew the sweetness and fruitfulness of such joy and sorrow.
Strona 403 - You know that Irving sits at his feet, and drinks in the inspiration of every syllable that falls from him. There is a secret and to me as yet unintelligible communion of spirit betwixt them, on the ground of a certain German mysticism and transcendental lake-poetry which I am not yet up to. Gordon* says it is all unintelligible nonsense, and I am sure a plain Fife man as uncle
Strona 131 - Dr Chalmers, they commissioned him to speak to me concerning their vacant church, and not to hide from me its present distress. Well do I remember the morning, when, as I sat in my lonely apartment, meditating the uncertainties of a preacher's calling, and revolving in my mind purposes of missionary work, this stranger stepped in upon my musing, and opened to me the commission with which he had been charged.
Strona 184 - Shakspeare and Spenser and Milton, have been in poetry. I cannot learn to think as they have done, which is the gift of God ; but I can teach myself to think as disinterestedly, and to express as honestly what I think and feel.
Strona 85 - I have always been accustomed to fancy that / stood highest in your good opinion, and I was jealous to hear you praise another man. I am sorry for what I said just now — that is the truth of it ;" — and so, not pleased, but penitent and candid, let her go.
Strona 34 - The first time I saw Irving was six-andtwenty years ago, in his native town, Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with college prizes, high character and promise; he had come to see our schoolmaster, who had also been his. We heard of famed professors, of high matters classical, mathematical, a whole wonderland of knowledge; nothing but joy, health, hopefulness without end, looked out from the blooming young man.
Strona 130 - The Caledonian Church had been placed under the pastoral care of two worthy ministers, who were successively called to parochial charges in the Church of Scotland ; and by their removal, and for want of a stated ministry, it was reduced to great and almost hopeless straits. But faith hopeth against hope, and when it does so, never faileth to be rewarded. This was proved in the case of those two men whose names I have singled out from your number, to give them that honour to which they are entitled...
Strona 141 - Before going southwards he had mentioned to a friend his great desire ' to make a demonstration for a higher style of Christianity, something more magnanimous, more heroical than this age affects.
Strona 158 - Garden all at once, without warning or premonition, is said to have been a speech of Canning's. Sir James Mackintosh had been by some unexpected circumstance led to hear the new preacher, and heard Irving in his prayer describe an unknown family of orphans belonging to the obscure congregation as now 'thrown upon the Fatherhood of God.