ISBN: 1231459646

[EAN: 9781231459645], Neubuch, FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY SCOTLAND,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers … Plus…

[EAN: 9781231459645], Neubuch, FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY SCOTLAND,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: . . . have the gift also of getting testimonials to themselves from their adherents, in money amount, sufficient to make them independent for life. Testimonial giving is a trade so general, that many See article in Quarterly Review for Jan entitled Church Principles and Prospects. influential newspapers, such as the Edinburgh Scotsman, have a notice in permanent type, that, unless paid for as advertisements, they cannot insert the paragraphs which flood their office, setting forth that, for certain important services, Mr. So and So has been presented with a silver eperne, together with a silver tea-kettle for his wife; or, if it is a small affair, a silver snuff-box with, we shall say, an elegant brooch, added by way of sweepstakes, to his wife, if he has one. In all cases a suitable inscription is attached. Reader, as you peruse this you must recall many cases got up sub rosa by the recipients themselves. Less than thirty years ago I remember seeing a dissenting clergyman, on the attainment of his Jubilee, presented with a purse containing fifty sovereigns or thereabouts. For fifty years he had spent and been spent, not in factious disputations in presbyteries or assemblies, but in striving to do his Masters work, seeking only souls for his hire. Church politics he held to be out of his province; to ecclesiastical ambition, envy, bigoted debate, he was a stranger. This gift was deemed a handsome return for his life work! Now, a few hundred sovereigns offered to the magnates of certain churches, would be taken by them as an insult. Thousands--thousands are the expectation, and the cry is still they come; even after they do come, there is an inclination to ask for more, and more . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781231459645

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