Complete Works of Rev Thomas Smyth, D D

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: UNION TO CHRIST, TO HIS CHURCH; THE DUTY AND PRIVILEGE OF ALL TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST, TO CONFESS CHRIST, AND TO BECOME COMMUNING MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. BY THE REV. THOMAS SMYTH, D. D., PASTOR OF THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. EDINBURGH: W. P. KENNEDY. St. ANDREW ST....
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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: UNION TO CHRIST, TO HIS CHURCH; THE DUTY AND PRIVILEGE OF ALL TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST, TO CONFESS CHRIST, AND TO BECOME COMMUNING MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. BY THE REV. THOMAS SMYTH, D. D., PASTOR OF THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. EDINBURGH: W. P. KENNEDY. St. ANDREW ST. Glasgow: D. Bryce. London: Hamilton, Adam AND CO. DUBLIN: W. CURKY, JUN. AND CO. MDCCCXLVI. EDINBURGH: ANDREW JACK, PRINTER, NIDDRY STREET. PREFACE. During the past year the author has witnessed in that congregation in Charleston, South Carolina, of which he is pastor, a very gracious manifestation of the power of the Gospel in the salvation of many souls. Of this work of grace the following is an outline taken from a letter written at the time, and published in the United States. charleston, April 1846. REV. AND DEAR SlR, I am happy to inform you that the work of Divine grace in Charleston has extended beyond any anticipation. I speak particularly of the second Presbyterian Church, with which I am connected. In this Church there has been a growing interest in all its services during the last eighteen months. Up to the period of the communion in January 1846, seventy-three persons, coloured and white, have been added to its membership. Since that period one hundred and six persons have been examined by the session, and were publicly received into communion on the third Sabbath in April. Of these, sixteen were coloured persons; a great many young; several heads of families; two had been baptized in the Roman Catholic Church; and three had been brought up in the Unitarian faith. Upwards of twenty had never been connected with the congregation previously, and several families, (chiefly Scotch, ) had abandoned the habit of attendin...