Log college - Alexander - V - Chapter 6 & 7

Required reading
The log college by Archibald Alexander (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapters 6 (Memoir of the Rev. Gilbert Tennent continued) and 7 (The college of New Jersey).

My summary
Firstly we read the last chapter regarding the life of Gilbert Tennent.  Most of the chapter is made up of a letter which 'sheds a satisfactory light on several parts of Mr. Tennent's life, which all other accounts leave in obscurity, as for example, the success of his ministry in New Brunswick, while the pastor of that church ; and also in Staten Island, where he had a congregation, in which his labours appear to have been blessed.'

The next chapter endeavours to show that the Log College was the germ of the College of New Jersey as all 'ministers who now exerted themselves in the establishment of the New Jersey College were all the friends of the Log College ; and most of them had received their training, both in classical and theological learning, within the walls of this humble institution. '

What grabbed me
A good description of true revival: 'In some places of this province, some years ago, particularly in Nottingham, Fag's Manor, Whiteclay Creek, Neshaminy, and elsewhere, there have been such general lamentations in the time of preaching, that the speaker's voice has been almost drowned with the cries of the distressed, even after they have been entreated again and again to restrain themselves ; yea, and sometimes when the speaker discoursed in a gospel strain, divers persons in this province have fallen down to the ground in the time of sermon, as though they were stabbed with a sword. And what though some have lost their impressions, and relapsed into their sordid impieties, this is no more than what the Scriptures inform us did happen in the apostolic times ; yet it is well known that many of them, so far as we are capable of judging by men's speech and practice, have been brought to a sound conversion. '

People unable to restrain their sorrow during your preaching - what a splendid problem to have!

Next week's reading
Read Chapter 8 (The New London School).

Now it's your turn
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