Meliora: An Oration Before the Alumni of the Mount Allison Wesleyan College, Sackville, on the 1St of June, 1880 (Classic Reprint)

St. Paulâa. The pews are of the old perpen. ;dlcular, hlgh-backed style, with narrow seats, somethlng like those which were to be found lu St. A udrewâs Church, Bt. John, before the great tlre. The galleries are high, and the pulplt necessarily occuples a very elevated posltlon. Anyone who has sat an hour or two on a narrow seat, with a hlgh perpendicular ;back, will appreciate the patience and longlsutferlng of the members of the church who i have for so many years sat in St. P aulâs. Some one has wrltten a book, Ending that Chrlstlanlty must I be true, or lt would long slnce have ceased to: exist owing to the errors and mistakes of those i who professed lt, and we have heard of al beadle who Informed a Bishop ofthe Church of Englssdgnmt he (they, besdls) felt that he had much to be gratful for, because he had sat ln a lcertaln church in Oxford for a great part of af With a good, lively, ensrgetlo pastor, whom sermons must not be too long, good muslc, good hymns, a modern church, or at least modern pulpit and pews, sud a courteous, nnltcd, evangelistic and missionary rhurch, Old St. Panlâa ought to talreancw lease of life, and be able to takc an honorable part ln promotlng the moral and splrltual well being of the people of Fredericton. At the time that the accompanying address was delivered, I promised to many friends of the Mount Allison Institutions that I would put it in print at any early day, not because it contained anything particularly note-worthy, but as a souvenir of a. pleasant re-union. I was the HIOPC desirous of doing so as, owing to circumstances, the address was very ilieffectively read, and portions of it were not well heard. Many preoccuputions prevented me from making a copy for the printer at 1111 earlier date, and thus fulfilling my promise. This is now d0l1â fbi thc reasons above statedW. Elife time and was atlll able to thank God tha
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