Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 3, 2025
It was grand to see his great soul at full liberty rejoicing in the Lord. He was quite at home in the noisiest and stormiest meetings, and no doubt he thought me a promising disciple, and a very happy one, too. Oh, what tremendous scenes we witnessed whenever Mr. Aitken came to preach at Baldhu.
He was almost beside himself with joy and thankfulness for all this. In the year 1848, when the church was completed and opened, he came on a visit to Baldhu, and was greatly surprised to see what a change had taken place. There was a beautiful church, a parsonage, with a flourishing garden, and also a schoolroom, with a large plantation and fields round them.
At the conclusion of these services we returned to the schoolroom, where our meetings were continued. Our friend Billy remained with us at Baldhu, and was very useful. He spoke in the schoolroom with much acceptance and power in the simplicity of his faith, and souls were added to the Lord continually.
Aitken changed his tone also, and said that the text had come to him, "Cast thyself down," and that I was tempting God. Yet all the steps I had taken had been in prayer, and had been taken very reluctantly, for I was much attached to Baldhu. For nearly three months I was torn with distractions; sometimes hope lifted up the mist from the horizon, and then let it down again.
One of the "Peel" districts in the neighbourhood of Truro, which I had designed, called Baldhu, was on the Earl of Falmouth's estate: it came to his Lordship's mind to take an interest in this desolate spot; so he bought the patronage from the commissioners, and then offered it to me, to Be made into a new parish.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking