The work and the counterwork, or, The religious revival in Belfast : with an explanation of the physical phenomena / by Edward A. Stopford.

  • Stopford, Edward Adderley, 1809-1894.
Date:
1859
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Credit: The work and the counterwork, or, The religious revival in Belfast : with an explanation of the physical phenomena / by Edward A. Stopford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    f I- )t yti^.oodn Hirr DidrfT 'liiit 'iv -iiu'tMiiL'n bfffs iioigiioi ojri' jo si* of flohiiqo wMdjjq qn THE WORK AND THE COUNTERWORK; OR, THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN BELFAST. : ’ Hi [i‘-»o i XInot'jxi ■/•£'I0Lt iJllJ 01911'^ /joi ]j9(|i.ij[ do Y.offi aJfwa&i baeealcf “ The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man ■which sowed good seed in his field ; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat.” Suck was our Lord's prophetic description of the condition of His Church until the time of the harvest. Let it be no cause of offence if Belfast be now subject to this common condition, and if the mingling of evil with good in the work in progress there should perplex us not a little, and “ crave our wary walking.” That there is much good in this movement has been denied by none that-I have met. All whom I have conversed with in Belfast—clergy, laity, persons of all classes in society, and holding all varieties of views in respect of the physical phenomena, do all agree that there is widely awakened a serious attention to religion in the minds of thousands who neArnr thought seriously of it before ; that there is an access to men’s