The Wesleyan-Methodist magazine - Softcover

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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. Excerpt: ... met at the " old chapel." Among the members were many persons well acquainted with the deeper experiences of the Christian life; and in such society he was prepared for those stations of usefulness in the church, which he afterwards so honourably filled. "As his way appeared to be providentially opened," the friend observes who has been already quoted, "he became successively a Local Preacher, a Class-Leader, and a Trustee for several chapels. In all these situations he conducted himself with great fidelity and judgment. He was made a Class-Leader by the Rev. Thomas Taylor in 1814, having become a Local Preacher six years previously, in 1808. He was conscientiously desirous of improving his mind, especially by the acquisition of biblical knowledge, that he might be the better prepared for the public labours in which he was, from time to time, called to engage: he therefore joined a company of young men, who were accustomed to meet weekly, for the purpose of conversing on different portions of the sacred volume, and thus attend to the most important branch of mental cultivation." Another of his friends says that he was greatly assisted in this by the attention he was induced to pay to the study of the wisdom of divine Providence displayed in the works of creation. On these themes he not only delighted to dwell himself, hut to direct others to the contemplation of them. Mr. Musgrave would never allow his secular concerns to interfere with his religious duties; hut he was at the same time exemplary for his diligent application and persevering industry in that state of life to which he was providentially called; and, by the blessing of Him whom he was careful to acknowledge in all his ways, his undertakings were so successful, that he rose not only to...