A Discourse Delivered at the Funeral of Professor Moses StuartTappan & Whittemore, 1852 - 56 pages |
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Page 3 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Page 7 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 46 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
Page 6 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Page 40 - In a new path, however, or in a beaten one, he never went away from the scene where his Lord was crucified. Lutheran or Reformed, either, or both, or neither, he was determined to know nothing among men, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Page 25 - I had not, and never have had, the aid of any teacher in my biblical studies. Alas! for our country at that time (AD 1810); there was scarcely a man in it, unless by accident some one who had been educated abroad, that had such a knowledge of Hebrew as was requisite in order to be an instructor.?'* The youthful professor's acquaintance with the Greek language was far inferior to that now obtained in our universities.
Page 26 - ... immediate use of his pupils. They were obliged to copy it, day by day, from his written sheets. In the third year, he published it at his own expense. To print a Hebrew grammar was then a strange work. He was compelled to set up the types for about half the paradigms of verbs, with his own hands. He taught the printers their art. Is he not fitly termed the father of Biblical philology in our land? Eight years afterwards, he printed his larger Hebrew grammar. This he soon remodelled with great...
Page 34 - During his life he printed more than twenty volumes, and carried several of them through the second and third editions ; and whenever he republished any one of his writings, he verified anew its accumulated references to other works. His pamphlets and periodical essays occupy more than two thousand octavo pages. * All the labor immediately connected with these voluminous publications has been performed, amid physical pain, during three, or at most, three and a half hours of each day. He has never...
Page 28 - ... borne — but of friends. Night after night he repeated the sentiment which at the age of threescore years he expressed in a public prayer, and which many an ingenuous youth will hereafter read with a tearful eye: "God in mercy keep me, by thy Spirit, from falling — from denying the Lord that bought...
Page 35 - But although his writings have been read on the banks of the Mississippi and of the Danube, it is not by them that he has achieved his greatest triumphs. He lives in the souls of his pupils. He has stamped an image upon them. He has engraved deep lines on the character of the churches through them. Many a professor in our colleges has reiterated the saying, ' I first learned to think under the inspiration of Mr. Stuart. He first taught me how to use my mind.