Reminiscences of the REV. Robert Hall

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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: REMINISCENCES. PART I. INCLUDING THE PERIOD FROM 1795 TO 1805. It was in the year 1795 when I first became acquainted with that extraordinary man, the Rev. Robert Hall. He was then pastor of the Baptist church at Cambridge, to which office he succeeded the Rev. Mr. Robinson, on the 23d of July, 1791. I saw him for the first time in the pulpit in St. Andrew's-street meeting. I was too young fully to understand his discourses, but even then they produced an impression upon my mind of wonder and of delight. I sat in a front seat in the gallery, where many of the forms were quite empty. The meeting was small, and there were but few persons of the lower class. In the body of the place were many of the most respectable families in the town, but even here the pews were not filled. The members of the church were alsofew in number; some of them were poor, but possessed of eminent piety, and residents in the surrounding villages. Not a student or member of the university was to be seen in the place. The principal influential members of the church and congregration consisted of persons in the meridian of life, who were embarked in commercial pursuits. A generation of their fathers had been nearly all removed during the ministry of Mr. Robinson. There were a few of these gentlemen of whose intelligence Mr. Hall entertained a very high opinion, which circumstance induced a laborious and diligent preparation for the exercises of the pulpit. Most of his sermons at this period were written at full length, though preached without the use of notes. His delivery was uncommonly rapid, occasioned by the astonishing flow of his ideas, which literally struggled for utterance. This was accompanied by an impediment in his voice, together with a slight cough, which by attention he in some me...

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