Volume 1

Horae subsecivae / by John Brown.

  • Brown, John, 1810-1882.
Date:
1882
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Horae subsecivae / by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Three of these sermons were written for, and (shall I say ?) preached some years ago, in one of the earliest missionary stations in Edinburgh, established by Broughton Place Congregation, and presided over at that time by the Rev. James Trench; one of the best human beings it was ' ever my privilege to know. He is dead; dying in and of his work—from typhus fever caught at the bedside of one of his poor members—but he lives in the hearts of many a widow and fatherless child ; and lives also, I doubt not, in the immediate vision of Him to do whose will was his meat and his drink. Given ten thousand such men, how would the crooked places be made straight, and the rough places plain, the wildernesses of city wickedness, the solitary places of sin and despair, of pain and shame, be made glad ! This is what is to regene- rate mankind; this is the leaven that some day is to leaven the lump.