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    Dr» fVaugh's Memoirs. 8111

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    Memoir Of The Rev. Alexander Waugh, D. D...

    c < r My deAit -Alexander , ef 1 cannot convey to you dn idea of the deep distress into which your letter of Sahtr d & y Has kSasfus . Your dear nsdther is overcame to weattness . You seem , however-, to t & ke the matter much too severely . The eteratioaof your voice is certainty within your power , and this is the only ini perfection in youir

    service . By accustoming * yourself , as Demosthenes did , to speak on the beach , and to drown the noise of the waves , you . may acquire strength of voice that will fill any Seceding meetting-house in tbe land . Your timidity , also , would prevent you from doing justice to your powers of articulation . Go forward with firmness , and there is no cause for fear . You stand well with the Presbytery , and another exhibition , with a little more spirit and life , will restore your mind to its full composure . Your tender hints respecting

    assistance to me in the evening of my life , came so near to my heart , that I dare scarce read o ^ er that part of your letter which contains them . It is a measure of comfort which in this state of things , however much I might fondly desire it , I never durst hope for , or give even to your dear mother a distant hint of . Go forward in the exercise of David's frame of spirit : c The Lord shall choose for me the lot of mine inheritance . ' There is no way of obtaining peace and composure but this . € f

    On gravely turning the matter in my mind , and I have scarcely thought of any thing else since the morning that I received your letter , I really see very little cause of discouragement . Your own imagination has given form and substance to a mere phantom . Mkke yourself master of your subject ; try to acquire some higher measure of self-possession ; mark in your manuscript the emphatic words , and speak under a strong sense of fclhe Divine presence * Read James 1 . " 6 <—8 , and God will help you to annihilate your auditory , so > far as it can be viewed as aa object of fear

    " I need not add 5 that I shall bear you on my heart before the throne of God day and night , and hope he will graciously listen to a fathers supplications on behalf of a beloved son , in so sacred a cause . Nil desperandum , Christo duce , write at the top of your sermon . Bring nerve from Him who is the glory of our strength . i ( Ever and most affectionately yours . "—Pe 437-

    Dr» Fvaugh's Memoirs. 8111

    Dr » fVaugh's Memoirs . 8111

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    s < Unless you see in the New Testament the outline of the Presbyterian form of church order , in the parity of oi & ce among ministers , and in the union of the churches , a-nd their subordination to each other , in matters not of faith but of external regulation ., it will be very unsafe for you to come forward either in the Church of Scotland or in the Secession . In regard to the Churcli of England , you will be expected to express your assent and consent to the whole system of the doctrine and polity of that establishment . It is said there are many in that church who believe neither her Articles 31 or

    the scriptural authority of her orders , and that it is not expected a young man should trouble himself with nice scruples on these points . But subscription is too serious and awful a matter to be trifled with ; and I think too favourably of youx moral principles to conceive it oeedful to dwell on the ruinous consequences of such a relaxed systega * . Search the Scriptures ; consult the candid and upright tutorwiujse instructioa you are to enjoy ; Jet your eye be single ; and _ should jthe conclusion to wfoicU *& e inquiry leads you

    be different from ray views , I shall not respect you ike leas , but very cheerfully aid and assist you to the utmost of my jpowef . The concern the , nearest to my heai t is , that your present inquiries , and ttie measures you may adopt in consequence of them , may be reviewed with approbation , when , like your father , you look back from the hi gh grouad of three-score yearn . A tender conscience is an inestimable treasure .

    ' * Be assured of it , that if you enter into we nunisjtry with a good conscience , your Father in heaven will supply all your wants . 1 myself have never hud much , but , like the good Bishop of Camibray , 1 hope to die poor ,

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• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 819, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/19/