Memoir of Samuel John Mills

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* t^rOMEMOIR OF MILLSJOHNSAMUEL SPRING, D. D.GARDINERBY EDITION.SECOND MARVIN.PERKINS &BYPUBLISHED :NEW-YORK J. P. HAVEN.ANDJ. LEAVITT, 1S29. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS i Pn it remembered, thru on the twenty lixth day 01 '- '"'« the" ' ' fifty fourth j Independen, United States ol America, I tnrt, have deposited in this Office the I whereof they claim a, Proprietors, in tl noir of Samuel John Mills. U 1> D. Sec I edition." In conformity to the Act oft! entitled - \u \.i for Hi-' ;encourngemenl of taps, charts and books, to ihfl authors and pr - I J, when they were ray much concerning the exercises his own mind. But such wereof view-,hifl of his own sinfulness, so severe his distress, and so bitter his opposition thatto God, "he would break insometimes out expressions of unyielding rebellion." With nothing was his dissatisfaction more painful, than the discrimi- favornations of the divine in boowing mercy to those who were around him, while he himself to obduracy and ruin.was apparently left He had many of hisbeheld companions in yean and in Bin, together with an broth. -r,elder a r a couuin, alllisti and residing under the same REV. SAMUEL J. MILLS. 5 roof, rejoicing in hope, and united to the visible Church while he himself obtained no relief ; "from his agony, but remained in the gall of bit- terness and the bond of iniquity." Such was his state and such it con-ofmind for many months, decline, andtinued, when the revival began to when it was gone by !

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• Southwest
• Mills
• American Colonization Society

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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D. Sec I edition." In conformity to the Act oft! entitled - \u \.i for Hi-' ;encourngemenl of taps, charts and books, to ihfl authors and pr - I J, when they were ray much concerning the exercises his own mind. But such wereof view-,hifl of his own sinfulness, so severe his distress, and so bitter his opposition thatto God, "he would break insometimes out expressions of unyielding rebellion." With nothing was his dissatisfaction more painful, than the discrimi- favornations of the divine in boowing mercy to those who were around him, while he himself to obduracy and ruin.was apparently left He had many of hisbeheld companions in yean and in Bin, together with an broth. -r,elder a r a couuin, alllisti and residing under the same REV. SAMUEL J. MILLS. 5 roof, rejoicing in hope, and united to the visible Church while he himself obtained no relief ; "from his agony, but remained in the gall of bit- terness and the bond of iniquity." Such was his state and such it con-ofmind for many months, decline, andtinued, when the revival began to when it was gone by !" />

*t^rOMEMOIR
OF
MILLSJOHNSAMUEL
SPRING, D. D.GARDINERBY
EDITION.SECOND
MARVIN.PERKINS &BYPUBLISHED
:NEW-YORK
J. P. HAVEN.ANDJ. LEAVITT,
1S29.DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS i
Pn it remembered, thru on the twenty lixth day 01
'- '"'« the" ' ' fifty fourth
j Independen,
United States ol America, I
tnrt, have deposited in this Office the I
whereof they claim a, Proprietors, in tl
noir of Samuel John Mills. U
1> D. Sec I edition."
In conformity to the Act oft!
entitled - \u \.i for Hi-' ;encourngemenl of
taps, charts and books, to ihfl authors and pr<
ofsuch copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and aU
uragement of learning, by securing
and books, to the authors and pro .rjn t |ie
tin..- therein mentioned ; and extending the b«
t to ili„
graving and • tching historical and otbet prints."
Clerkjftkt DiW.JNO DWIsJ
Us.MILLS.REV. S. J.OFMEMOIRCONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Page.
His youth and conversion. 1
CHAPTER II.
devotionHis education, and early to the Missionary cause, 9
CHAPTER III.
His interest and agency in the promotion of Foreign
Missions, 19
CHAPTER IV.
His acquaintance with Obookiah, and the consequent es-
tablishment of the Foreign Mission Schooi, 44
CHAPTER V.
His Missionary tours into the Western and Southern sec-
tions of the United States, 59
CHAPTER VI.
His instrumentality in bringing forward the American Bible
- Society, and the United Foreign Missionary Society, . . 8C
CHAPTER VII.
His residence in New York, and his exertions in behalfof
the poor ignorant that cityand in 103
CHAPTER VIII.
ll:s exertions in behalfof Africa 11GVJ11 CONTENTS.
We
IX.CHAPTER
His Journal as Agent ofthe Colonization Society 168
CHAPTER X.
His last illness and death. 233
XI.CHAPTER
His general 239character,
MiConclusion.