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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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