llustrate this part of his character. One day, while preaching from the
balcony of the court-house, in Philadelphia, he cried out, "Father
Abraham, who have you got in heaven; any _Episcopalians_?" "No!" "Any
_Presbyterians_?" "No!" "Any _Baptists_?" "No!" "Have you any _Methodists_
there?" "No!" "Have you any _Independents_ or _Seceders_?" "No! No!" "Why,
who have you, then?" "We don't know those names here; all that are here
are _Christians_--believers in Christ--men who have overcome by the blood of
the Lamb, and the word of his testimony!" "O, is this the case? then God
help me--God help us all--to forget party names, and to become Christians in
deed and in truth."
Selina Huntingdon.
Countess, second daughter of Washington, earl Ferrers, born 1707, and
married Lord Huntingdon, by whom she had four sons and three daughters.
From habits of gayety and scenes of dissipation, she became all at once,
after a serious illness, grave, reserved, and melancholy. Her thoughts
were wholly absorbed by religion, and she employed the ample resources
which she possessed in disseminating her principles by the popular arts of
Whitefield, Romaine, and others. Not only her house in Park Street was
thrown open for the frequent assembling of these pious reformers, but
chapels were built in various parts of the kingdom, and a college erected
in Wales for the education of young persons in the future labors of the
ministry. After many acts of extensive charity, and with the best
intentions, this enthusiastic lady died in 1791.
Robert Sandeman.
The founder of the sect called _Sandemanians_, born at Perth, in Scotland,
about the year 1718, and was educated at St. Andrews. Instead of entering
into the church, for which he was intended, he became a linen
manufacturer, and afterwards turned preacher. He came to America in
October, 1764, and from Boston he went to Danbury, Connecticut. In that
town he gathered a church the following year. He afterwards established
several societies in New England. Individuals are still found who adhere
to his peculiarities, and are known by the name of his sect. He wrote an
answer to Hervey's "Theron and Aspasio," said to be a work of talent, but
exhibiting great asperity.
The following is copied from the monument of Mr. Sandeman, in the
burying-ground at Danbury:--
"Here lies, until the resurrection, the body of ROBERT SANDEMAN, a
native of Perth, North Britain, who, in the f
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