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818 Dr. IVaugh'a Memoirs.
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Memoir Of The Rev. Alexander Waugh, D. D...
6 ( We think none the worse of you , rny good lad , for your duUfu , ! regard for your aged parent . You . are bui acting - in conformity mthth ^ ^^ rp pie of hka who , as lieliuiig on t , he cross , heheld his mother anc } the beloyedjdisciple standing by ., and stu d , to the one ' Woman , behold thy son ! ' and , to , tlie other , ' Befiold'tliy mother ! ' My good lad ., we think nome thevyorse of you . " —P . &)&
Df . Waugrr ' s life was one of extraordinary activity and eminent usefulness ex ce |> t in as far as his religious party bounded , and his religious creed misdirected , his efforts ,. If he had been free from trammels outwardly ,, and if he could have escaped from the clouds which early and long overshadowed his faith , he might , by the vigour of his intellect the frankness of his disposition ^ and the kindliness of his affections , have rendered incalculable services to the pure gospel . As it was , we are struck with nothing so
much in the Pulpit Recollections which we find in the Appendix ^ as the absence of all exclusive doctrine and repellent sentiment . There is in them much vigour and beauty combined with familiarity and question ^ hle taste . All that he spoke was from the heart . If he had been allowed to speak all that was in his heart , and if that heart had been early left to the teachings of nature and the Bible , he would have been spared almost every sorrow he ever experienced , and he would have been an ornament to a Christian nation instead of the Scotch Secession . He is venerated among his own
people as an influential preacheir 9 as the grand mover of the Missionary Society , as a powerful support to the Evangelical Magazine * While duly respecting his motives and his zeal in these things , we admire those of his exertions more which were based on pure truth , and that exercise of his affections which involved no libel on the Divine Goodness , and sanctioned
no infringement of gospel liberty . In his pulpir 5 in his family , among his people , or on the heathery braes of Cowdenknovves , he appears to us most venerable . We like to disconnect In ' m in thought from the Evangelical Magazine , and to persuade ourselves that his concern for the Heathen was rather that theyshouLd be made partakers of our light and joy than that they should be rescued from an undeserved fate of such horror as it must have
chilled a spirit like his to contemplate . We were about to quote a lengthened description of Dr . WauglVs style of preaching ., in matter and manner , with which our authors furnish us ; but , on referring again to the portrait and the letters , we doubt whether it is reeoncileable with what our own judgment of his pulpit services would have been if we had heard him ; and we , therefore , substitute the facts that it was
thought a privilege for the young men of his own party to hear him ; that bis flock were devotedly attached to him ; that he commonly preached three times , often four , on Sundays , and very frequently during the week ; and that his early habits of industry and accuracy in composition occasioned the facility with which he went through all this labour , in addition to his other
numerous and laborious employments , lie was minister of Wells Street chaj > el , London , ffona May , 1782 , till his death , December , 1827 . lie was the fathjer 6 f ten dhftjren , and was for nothing more distinguished . thau for h ^ s aftmf r ^ p l . e q ^ isc h ^ rge o , f all domestic duties . to his
, \ y , 6 ? e ^ r ^ t a ^ tt ^ . ^ r ^ tte , ^ . so n Alexander * who suffered from appreJbeflsioBj fch ^ t k & did nqt : possess st rength of body or mind for the discharge of the pastoral office : and another to the same son * ( who went < d ^ wn to the grave he fore fairrr ;) -on occasion of some scruples respecting modes of church government
818 Dr. Ivaugh'a Memoirs.
818 Dr . IVaugh ' a Memoirs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 818, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/18/
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