The London Pulpit
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217355117
Paperback|9780217355117
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE EEY. THOMAS BINNET. All the world, I take it, is acquainted with the Monument, which, ' Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies.' You have been to see it, or you have passed it as you have rushed to take the boat to Greenwich, or Hamburg, or the ' Diggins.' In either of these cases, unless you had been too much absorbed, you might have seen a plain, substantial building, evidently devoted to public worship. There is nothing peculiar about its appearance; but there is something peculiar in the man who generally fills its pulpit?for it is the Weigh-House Chapel, and the preacher is the Rev. Thomas Binney. Let us suppose it is a Sabbath morning, and the time half-past ten. A stream of people hasbeen flowing for the last quarter of an hour to the door of the above-named chapel: a few in private carriages?some in cabs?the rest on foot. The larger portion consists of males, and, again, that majority consists of young men. They come, evidently, from the shops and warehouses and counting-houses of this great metropolis. They belong to the commercial classes. They are the raw material out of which are evolved, in process of time, aldermen, merchant princes, and Lord Mayors. They are such as Hogarth, were he alive now, would sketch for his industrious apprentice. A few medical students from the neighbouring hospitals, and men of law or literature from the more aristocratic West, and you have the usual congregation to which the Rev. Thomas Binney ministers in holy things. It is something to preach to these twelve hundred living souls; to place before them, immersed as they are in the business and bustle of this world, the reality of that which is to come; so to speak that the voice of God shall be more audible to them than that of gold. Yet, surely, if it can be done by ma...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217355117 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217355110 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 92 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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