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    A Century of Christian Service: Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893
    A Century of Christian Service: Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893
    A Century of Christian Service: Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893
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    A Century of Christian Service: Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893

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    "A Century of Christian Service: Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893" by C. Silvester Horne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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    Release dateDec 13, 2019
    ISBN4064066185763
    A Century of Christian Service: Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893

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      A Century of Christian Service - C. Silvester Horne

      C. Silvester Horne

      A Century of Christian Service: Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066185763

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      I—FORMING THE CHURCH

      II—CONSOLIDATION: THE FIRST MINISTRY

      III—A BRIEF MINISTRY—REV. JOHN CLAYTON

      IV—SIXTEEN YEARS OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS—REV. JOHN LEIFCHILD

      V—PROSPERITY UNDER DR. ROBERT VAUGHAN

      VI—ENLARGING OUR BORDERS—DR. STOUGHTON’S MINISTRY.

      VII—A GRACIOUS MINISTRY—DR. ALEXANDER RALEIGH

      VIII—PLANTING A NEW CHURCH—MR. SYMES’ MINISTRY

      IX—A NOTABLE INTERVAL—REV. EDWARD WHITE

      X—TO BE CONTINUED—THE PRESENT PASTORATE [147]

      XI—Epilogue

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      In

      placing this volume in the hands of his congregation, as a memorial of the centenary of Kensington Chapel, the writer has one or two words to say to them. They will easily see that there is here no attempt to supersede Dr. Stoughton’s excellent and well-known history of our Church, entitled Congregationalism in the Court Suburb. For all detail of our work, as well as for most delightful reminiscences of the ministers who laboured here, they are referred to Dr. Stoughton’s book. The letterpress of this little book is an introduction to the pictures it contains, and it is an attempt to trace the rise and progress of the Church, rather than to dwell on the interesting features of individual ministries. This has, as the writer feels, limited the interest of the book somewhat; but he relies largely on the illustrations to commend it to those who have some sympathy with the Church whose doings it briefly chronicles. He has only to add that his best thanks are due to Mr. Sidney Davie, who has given him valued assistance in the reproduction of the photographs; and to Mr. Edward Spicer for very much co-operation in bringing out this memorial volume. But especially is he indebted to the member of the congregation, whose name he may not mention, who so kindly wrote the notice of the three and a half years of the present ministry.

      Kensington

      , April, 1893.

      I—FORMING THE CHURCH

      Table of Contents

      Hornton Street Chapel. From Photo. by Mr. S. Davie

      There

      is but little of the romance of history associated with the story of the Nonconformity of the last hundred years. The Free Churches that arose in England a century ago began with all the advantages of toleration. Their members were not objects of persecution, and the chapels that formed their local habitations had no longer to be built in obscure courts that testified to the unpopularity, and possibly the irregularity, of their existence. Churches that have such an inheritance as ours lose, no doubt, much of the stimulus which those enjoy that have great traditions of heroism and fidelity through stern seasons of suffering for conscience’ sake. In the absence of such stirring pages from our history, we may well be thankful that so much remains which we may regard with especial gratitude to God, in the consistently true and honourable service rendered to the cause of Christ through four generations by the ministers and members of our Church. The story of Kensington Chapel for the hundred years of its history has been that of a succession of able and devoted ministers, supported by a Church of consecrated men and women, who have not unworthily represented the best traditions of the Nonconformity of the last century. Neither has the atmosphere of the Court suburb injuriously affected the definite and resolute Dissenting attitude of the community. The first document issued by the founders of the Church contained an explicit avowal that they were Dissenters from the established mode of worship in this country; and any subsequent movement of thought has only been toward a clearer apprehension of those great positive beliefs which form the permanent raison d’être of a Congregational Church. Mr. Faulkner, whose history of old Kensington is

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