Sermons of Samuel Stanhope Smith, D. D., Late President of Princeton, New Jersey, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Prefixed, a Brief Memoir of His Life and Writings (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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At this early age Mr. Smith not only discovered that the sentiments of religion had taken deep root in his heart, by publicly joining the communion of the Pres byterian church, but evinced a strong predilection for that sacred profession, which he afterwards adopted, and in which he so eminently excelled. Taking little pleasure and aspiring to no distinction in the gymnastic exercises and sports of his school-fellows, he was re marked even at this early period to be prone to sober ness and reflection. At church he was unusually at tentive to the services and the sermon, and at his re turn home would give his father an accurate account not only of the text, and the general distribution of the parts, but oftentimes of the most minute subdivisions, together with the striking illustrations and remarks. In the absence of his father from home, he seemed to take great pleasure, in turn with his pious and excellent mother, in performing divine service in the family; and on some occasions, forming the semblance of a pulpit, and collecting his little brothers and companions round him, he would (go through, 'with great gravity and earn estness all the exercises of public worship.

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