{"id":33607,"date":"2014-06-05T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/parishlife\/parish-life-a-thomas-chalmers-reader\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T05:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T05:24:41","slug":"parish-life-a-thomas-chalmers-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/parish-life-a-thomas-chalmers-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish Life: A Thomas Chalmers Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThere is not, of course, any difficulty in explaining the indifference of the modern secular mind to Chalmers, neither is it surprising that churchmen of liberal persuasion should lack enthusiasm for his memory. What is more problematical is the question why evangelical Christianity itself should have made so little of him these many years.\u201d Iaian Murray<\/p>\n

\u201cTo know Chalmers is to love him, and to wish to be like him. Those to whom the cause of Christ is dear can but seek that a double portion of his spirit should be upon them.\u201d Adam Philip<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I thirst to read is Chalmers\u2019 life\u2026.I cannot conceive of a wiser, greater or better man. Every part of his character was colossal; he had the heart of twenty men; the head of twenty men; the energy of a hundred. He has not left his equal in the world.\u201d John Mackintosh<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had the greatest of the nation in his as well as well as that of the Church, and it is an immense gain to a Churchman when he has such an interest in the State as keeps his ethics from becoming ecclesiastically narrow in range.\u201d Principal R.G. Denney<\/p>\n

\u201cHe answered all one\u2019s young notions, and more, of what \u2018greatness\u2019 might be\u2026.Scotland was but a platform to and fro on which there walked a Chalmers.\u201d Professor L.T. Masson<\/p>\n

\u201cYou ask me to tell you about Dr. Chalmers. I must tell you first, then, that of all men he is the mot modest and speaks with undissembled gentleness and liberality of those who differ from him in opinion. Every word he says has the stamp of genius; yet the calmness, ease and simplicity of his conversation is such that to ordinary minds he might appear and ordinary man.\u201d Mrs. A.G Grant<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cTruly I consider him as raised up by God for a great and peculiar work. His depth of thought, origionality in illustrating and strength in stating are unrivalled in the present day. In other respects he is too sanguine. He does not sufficiently see that a Chalmers is necessary to carry into effect the plans of a Chalmers.” Charles Simeon<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was his contagious \u2018enthusiasm for humanity\u2019 that invested him in the eyes of students, as well as congregations, broad Scotland over, classes and masses alike, with an admiring reverence assigned to one of the old Prophets of Israel.\u201d J.R. Macduff<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring his life of sixty-seven years, Chalmers gave forty-four years of public service. Twenty of these he spent as a minister in three parishes\u2014twenty-four he spent as a professor in three different chairs.\u201d Adam Philip <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is not, of course, any difficulty in explaining the indifference of the modern secular mind to Chalmers, neither is it surprising that churchmen of liberal persuasion should lack enthusiasm for his memory. What is more problematical is the question why evangelical Christianity itself should have made so little of him these many years.\u201d Iaian Murray \u201cTo know Chalmers is … <\/p>\n

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