Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger: Fourth EditionHolland, E. G. (Elihu Goodwin)
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Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger: Fourth Edition
Holland, E. G. (Elihu Goodwin)
Badger, Joseph, 1792-1852
"I intended in this number of my Journal, to have given a
general account of all the religious societies in Boston,
but other things have prevented my giving that attention to
the subject which would be necessary in this case; I must
therefore omit it till some future period. The Calvinistic
Baptists, the Methodists and the Unitarians, have made many
disciples to their several parties the year past; a number
of whom we hope are experimental and practical disciples of
Jesus Christ. Four new chapels have been opened in Boston
the winter past, and while other societies have been
favored with revivals through the goodness of God, the
Christian Society, which has withstood all opposition for
more than twenty years, has of late experienced some of the
rich mercy-drops. I have been laboring among them some over
six months, and have been enabled with divine assistance to
gather up the fruits of my brethren's labors who went
before me. The names of Clough and Morgridge were mentioned
by some whom I baptized, as the means, under God, of
calling up their attention to the concern of the soul. I
will name one instance: I baptized a very respectable young
lady who had always attended a Unitarian meeting until a
few months since, when she found in a pew of her chapel
Clough's letter to Mr. Smallfield, which excited her
inquiry and finally became the means of her awakening.
Thus a good thing may come out of a despised and persecuted
Nazareth.
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