Excerpt from Talks to Bereans
When we look at the universe of matter, as far as it is open to our inspection, we are struck with one contrast which it presents to the universe of mind or spirit: in the former, order and harmony is the rule, disorder and discord the exception in the latter, disorder, discord, and wretchedness are largely in the ascendant. Even much that seems, at first sight, to be disorder in the material system, proves, on fuller investigation, to be subservient to harmonious ends; but in regard to the moral na ture, we are painfully conscious in our own experi ence, and impressed by all our observations, that there is an almost utter want of peace and har mony, and a fearful prevalence of unrest and wretchedness.
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ISAAC ERRETT was born in the city of New York. His immediate parents were both of Protestant families, and became identified with the Disciples in New York City as early as 1811--the father being an elder in the original Church in that place.
He commenced preaching in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1840, and soon gave promise of the distinguished position as a preacher of the Gospel.
His ministerial labors had been divided between the work of an evangelist and pastor. He was pastor of a church in Pittsburgh three years; New Lisbon, Ohio, five years; North Bloomfield, Ohio, two years; Warren, Ohio, five years; Muir and Ionia, Michigan, eight years; and Detroit, Michigan, two years. He removed to Warren, Ohio, in 1851, and, while there, was Corresponding Secretary of the Ohio Missionary Society three years; and it was he who first put that society into systematic and active operation.
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