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Synopsis
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. 1902 Excerpt: ...of Rome had been performed, Methodist preachers stood to announce a free and full and immediate salvation, and troubled souls found peace in the one Mediator. Some years since alterations were made in the building, and the workmen came on an antique window one of the "Methodist Close" 749 partes of which bore this inscription, made with a diamond: "Eternity! Eternity! Eternity! Thomas Hanby, June 21, 1772." It was several years before this date that Thomas Hanby had preached on the strangely illumined ground and gathered a little society; but in 1771 he was appointed to Edinburgh, and came the following summer to see his old friends in Dundee, and it was on this visit that he traced his memorial on the window pane: "Eternity! Eternity! Eternity!" How significant of the solemn awe which continually rested on the man! and how fully in harmony with one of his deathbed sayings: "This is great work!" "What is a great work?" was the inquiry. "Dying work is great work!" The entrance to the old nunnery is still known as " Methodist Close," but it was not long held as a preachinghouse. In the year 1788 a much more spacious and convenient building, which had been an Episcopal chapel, was purchased, and was the home of the society until the year 1867. A famous colleague of Thomas Taylor was Thomas Olivers, who, says Jabez Marrat, "having by the help of God cast off the profanities of youth and opened his heart to the Spirit's transforming power, rose to saintly dignity of life, and, moved to lyric grandeurs of thought rarely attained by mortals, threw out the undying melodies of that hymn The God of Abraham praise. "In Dundee," wrote Thomas Olivers, " I labored comfortably among ...
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