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Summary
The American May Meetings held in New York do not last a month as in England,—a week suffices. That week is the second in the month. On the Sabbath preceding, sermons on behalf of many of the societies are preached in various churches. On the morning of the Sabbath in question we went to the Tabernacle, not knowing whom we should hear. To our surprise and pleasure, my friend Dr. Baird was the preacher. His text was, “Let thy kingdom come;” and the object for which he had to plead was the Foreign Evangelical Society, of which he was the Secretary. His sermon was exceedingly simple, and the delivery quite in an off—hand conversational style. There was no reading.
In the evening we heard Dr. Bushnell preach, on behalf of the American Home—Missionary Society, at the “Church of the Pilgrims” in Brooklyn. This is a fine costly building, named in honour of the Pilgrim Fathers, and having a fragment of the Plymouth Rock imbedded in the wall. The sermon was a very ingenious one on Judges xvii. 13: “Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.” The preacher observed that Micah lived in the time of the Judges—what might be called the “emigrant age” of Israel,—that he was introduced on the stage of history as a thief,— that he afterwards became in his own way a saint, and must have a priest.
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- American Scenes and Christian SlaveryA Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States, pp. 302 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1849