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A Selection From the Correspondence of the Late Thomas Chalmers, Ed. by W. Hanna
A Selection From the Correspondence of the Late Thomas Chalmers Ed by W Hanna Author:Thomas Chalmers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: Constable Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: What is true, however, must ultimately prove familiar. I see, by to-day's paper, that Wilberforce has refused to stand during the approaching election, and is to retire from public life. This I consider one of the most alarming features of the times. Such a man would not have quitted his post if he had not seen that his exertions were fruitless; and when worth loses its sway over public opinion, a country is near its down- fal. His memory will ever be cherished; and, although Britain yield to the fate of nations, his name will emerge from the ruins of her greatness a monument to the heroism and the triumphs of Christian principle. Even at this moment he is known throughout Africa, and his name circulates in their dreary habitations as that of some mysterious being who curbs the fury of the whites. -- I ever am, my dear friend, yours most truly, James Anderson. No. V. -- Mr. Thomas Smith To Dr. Chalmers. Glasgow, ,13th November 1815. Dear Sir, -- After a week's separation from you, which, to say the least, has been very tedious to me, the slight communication I can produce by writing is very acceptable. The weather, during the last week, has been very bad, and it gives me some comfort to think that only two days have elapsed since you left this, which would have answered for our walk. . . . I have read with great interest the accounts of the Moraviaji Missionaries, which you were so kind as lend me. These people seem to have more religion and knowledge of their Creator than any I have ever heard of. The mild description they give of the inhuman conduct of the captain of...« less