Twentieth Century Sketches Of The South Carolina Conference M E Church South Classic Reprint

Author : William Capers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267242443
Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book A Sermon on the Occasion of the Death of the REV. William M'Gee Kennedy: Of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbi written by William Capers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sermon on the Occasion of the Death of the Rev. William M'gee Kennedy: Of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbia, Sunday, April 5, 1840 IT has been appointed for the present service, brethren, to make some improvement of that recent stroke of Divine Providence, by which it has pleased God to take from us one of the longest tried and most valued of our guides. For it should not seem proper to let an event so painfully interesting to the church pass, without some solemnity to mark our sense of it, and submission to the will of our Heavenly Father. Let your minds, then, be composed to prayer, while we attempt to open to you the words of the text, and dis course of them with reference to our deceased brother. Our commentators agree that the word rule, in the text, should be taken in the sense of guidance, not authority or control and that the expression who have the rule over you, like the one immediately following it, (who have spoken unto you the word of God) should be put in the past tense, as referring to those who had finished their course in the gospel ministry, and not those who were still living and laboring among them. The word used to be applied to generals or captains of armies, to express their duty as leaders as it devolved on them to direct the conduct of the army in such a manner as if they were always foremost, and set the example in every thing. And it is applied to ministers of the Gospel for a similar reason. The Church is militant: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. The word is a sword, Faith is a shield, Righteousness a breastplate, Truth a girdle, and Hope a helmet; and it is a minister's duty both to teach the Christian soldier how to use his armour, and to exemplify his instructions - leading him on, as it were - by his conversation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.