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Life & Letters of Benjamin Morgan Palmer
Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902), was just 25 when he became the successor of J. H. Thornwell in Columbia, South Carolina. This biography takes us behind the public figure to the humble, prayerful Christian whose life was marked by affliction.
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704 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1988
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January 22, 2024
About 40% too long, and a bit hagiographical at times, which is to be expected. Otherwise a great and important biography of a faithful, though not inerrant, Presbyterian minister.
“They loved him, they honored the very ground he walked on, were prouder of their city because he had lived in it. They loved no cold, hard, unrelenting man. They loved him because he loved them. Yet they knew that he was a Presbyterian of the Presbyterians, a Calvinist of the Calvinists, a Christian of the Christians.”
“He spoke as one who had dwelt long on a Christian and literary Olympus… [with] a remarkable sens of obligation to do that which was right.”
“He would preach the gospel, the gospel only, from his pulpit. It was a thing the world needed worst of all, and that need he would fill. He preached the Westminster interpretation of the Bible, preached it all…”
“In times of epidemic he went about day and night, ministering to body and soul without respect to persons or faiths, so that all New Orleans could not fail to see that he was a Christian hero, nor to love him for his heroism.”
“He deplored universal suffrage as a great evil.”
“It only remains to say that whatever be the fortunes of the South, I accept them for my own. Born upon her soil… she is in every sens my mother. I shall die upon her bosom - she shall know no peril but it is my peril, no conflict but it is my conflict, and no abyss of ruin into which I shall not share her fall.”
“They loved him, they honored the very ground he walked on, were prouder of their city because he had lived in it. They loved no cold, hard, unrelenting man. They loved him because he loved them. Yet they knew that he was a Presbyterian of the Presbyterians, a Calvinist of the Calvinists, a Christian of the Christians.”
“He spoke as one who had dwelt long on a Christian and literary Olympus… [with] a remarkable sens of obligation to do that which was right.”
“He would preach the gospel, the gospel only, from his pulpit. It was a thing the world needed worst of all, and that need he would fill. He preached the Westminster interpretation of the Bible, preached it all…”
“In times of epidemic he went about day and night, ministering to body and soul without respect to persons or faiths, so that all New Orleans could not fail to see that he was a Christian hero, nor to love him for his heroism.”
“He deplored universal suffrage as a great evil.”
“It only remains to say that whatever be the fortunes of the South, I accept them for my own. Born upon her soil… she is in every sens my mother. I shall die upon her bosom - she shall know no peril but it is my peril, no conflict but it is my conflict, and no abyss of ruin into which I shall not share her fall.”
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