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Life of Elder Walter Scott (1874)

 

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INTRODUCTION,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   11
 
CHAPTER I.
Birth--Ancestry--Education--Singing in the street at midnight--Emigrates to the United States--
      Goes westward on foot--Employed as teacher--Is baptized,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   29
 
CHAPTER II.
Becomes Principal of an Academy--Sudden death of Mr. Forrester--An important document--
      Gives up his school--Visits New York--Disappointment,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   41
 
CHAPTER III.
Returns to Pittsburg--And resumes teaching--Sketch of Pittsburg Church--Meets with Alexander
      Campbell and his father,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   56
 
CHAPTER IV.
Conversion of Samuel Church--Marriage--Extracts from his essays in the Christian Baptist--
      Need of the Ancient Gospel perceived,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   69 [5]
 
CHAPTER V.
Removal to Steubenville--Visits the Mahoning Baptist Association--Mr. Scott chosen as
      Evangelist--His field of labor--Religious experiences--The three brothers,   .   .   .   .   .   . 82
 
CHAPTER VI.
Favorable omens--Articles of faith of the New Lisbon church--Scott begins his work--Preaches
      at New Lisbon--The gospel offer accepted--Baptism for the remission of sins restored,   . 95
 
CHAPTER VII.
Great Excitement--Mr. Amend's letter--Assailed by preachers--Wesley's experience--Testimony
      of the church standards,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   . 109
 
CHAPTER VIII.
Visits Warren--Cold reception--John Tait's conversion--Sketch of Elder Bentley,   .   .   .   . 127
 
CHAPTER IX.
Meeting at Austintown--A. S. Hayden a convert--Church organized--John Henry--Death of
      Joseph Gaston,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   140
 
CHAPTER X.
Scott's views misunderstood--Bishop Hobart's views of baptism--Thomas Campbell visits the
      scene of Scott's labors--Meeting at Sharon, and results,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   . 155 [6]
 
CHAPTER XI.
Deerfield---Scott's visit--Amos Allerton the skeptic--Conversion of Aylette Raines,   .   .   .   168
 
CHAPTER XII.
Changes wrought--Anecdotes--Toad sky-high--Neither for God nor devil--Meeting of the
      Association--Scott re-appointed--William Hayden given as a fellow-laborer,   .   .   .   .   181
 
CHAPTER XIII.
Sketch of William Hayden--Early doubts--Meets with Scott--Musical talent--Education in the
      saddle--Specimen of his style.--Extent of his labors,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   194
 
CHAPTER XIV.
A pleasing incident--Bentley and Bosworth appointed as helpers--Dissolution of the Mahoning
      Association--Scott's inflexibility of purpose--Campbell moved by his eloquence--Death in
      his family--Replies to Robert Dale Owen,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   211
 
CHAPTER XV.
Removes to Carthage--The little Sunday-school girl--The village reprobate--Great success--A
      remarkable meeting,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   232
 
CHAPTER XVI.
Abundant labors--Hospitality--Liberality--Teaching the Scriptures in his family--Washes a
      brother's feet--Tribute to B. W. Stone--Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell--
      Treatment of young preachers--Good news from other fields,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   . 246 [7]
 
CHAPTER XVII.
Discourse on the Holy Spirit--Extracts from the Discourse--Opinions with regard to its merits--
      Review of the Rev. S. W. Lynd's pamphlet,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   260
 
CHAPTER XVIII.
Crooked things made straight--The prominence he gave to human responsibility--In what
      respects his work differed from that of other reformers--Apostrophe to the Bible,   .   .   281
 
CHAPTER XIX.
Social qualities of Elder Scott--Trip up the Ohio River, and pleasing incidents connected with it--
      Letter from one of the ministers whose acquaintance he made on the voyage,   .   .   .   .   294
 
CHAPTER XX.
Visit to Kentucky--Effects of first and second sermon--Visits Henry Clay and Col. R. M.
      Johnson--Meets the widow of Alexander Hamilton--Visit to Bethany, Va., Pittsburg, Pa.,
      and Warren, Ohio--Letter from Elder Bentley,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   308
 
CHAPTER XXI.
His ideal of a preacher--Exordiums--Themes for the ministry--Success attending his preaching--
      His labors at threescore,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   . 323
 
CHAPTER XXII.
Scott and Campbell compared as preachers--Dr. Humphrey's estimate of Campbell--Scott's
      description of the second coming of Christ--of the transfiguration--Sermon at Georgetown,
      Kentucky,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   . 338 [8]
 
CHAPTER XXIII.
His views on the great questions of the day--Opposed to the position of Soame Jenyns, M. P.--
      Position on the temperance and slavery questions--Views on education--Address before the
      College of Teachers at Cincinnati,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   352
CHAPTER XXIV.
Discussions growing out of Scott's plea--His own distaste for controversy--Debate between
      Hayden and Hubbard--A short controversy--The crawfish hole argument--Hartzell and
      Waldo's discussion--The farmer and scholar meet,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   370
CHAPTER XXV.
His plea for the name Christian--Visit to the East--Views on Millerism--Removal to Pittsburg--
      Labors as a colporteur--Description of the great fire,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   388
CHAPTER XXVI.
Chosen Elder of the Allegheny Church--Extracts from his diary at this period--Marriage of two
      of his children--Death of his wife,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   404
CHAPTER XXVII.
Admirable essay on Christian Union--Encomiums bestowed upon it--Visits Bethany--Death of
      Samuel Church--Letters,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   417 [9]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Deeply concerned at the prospect of disunion--His argument for union--His great grief at the
      prevailing troubles,   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   . 431
CHAPTER XXIX.
The end at hand--The news of the fall of Fort Sumpter--Taken suddenly ill--Visited by Elders
      Rogers and Streator--Death--A. Campbell's tribute to his memory,   .   .   .   .   .   . 443 [10]

 

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