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The life of Edward Irving, minister of the National Scotch church, London; Illustrated by his journals and correspondence Volume 1 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... at the height of his splendid social experiments, and in full possession of his unrivalled influence, a kind Of prince-bishop in that great and difficult town, had felt his strength fail, and--yielding to a natural distaste for the atmosphere in which, not following his own inclinations, except in the fashion of his work, he had laboured for years--had resigned his great position for the modest tranquillity of a professor's chair in St. Andrew's, and was just taking leave of the people over whom he had held so wonderful a sway. There Irving went to listen to the last sermon of his master in the ministry. The situation is a remarkable one. He was again to take part in the services in that place where he had filled, loyally, yet with many commotions and wistful dissatisfaction in his mind, a secondary place, so short a time before. A world of difference lay in the year of time which had passed since then. Chalmers himself had not turned the head of any community, as his former assistant had turned the multitudinous heads of London. The man who had gone away from them, forlorn and brave, upon an expedition more like that of a forlorn hope than an enterprise justified by ordinary wisdom, had come back with ah1 the laurels of sudden fame, a conqueror and hero. Yet here, RE-APPEARANCE IN ST. JOHN'S. 181 again he stood, so entirely in his old place that one can suppose the brilliant interval must have looked like a dream to Irving as he gazed upon the crowd of familiar faces, and saw himself lost and forgotten, as of old, in the absorbing interest with which everybody turned to the great leader, under whom they had lived and laboured. Had he been the egotist he was called, or had he come in any vain-glorious hope of confounding those who did not...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150726636
- ISBN 13 9781150726637
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages120
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