Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... Address THE INFLUENCE OF EDWARDS JAMES ORR, D.D. Professor of Theology, United Free Church College Glasgow THE INFLUENCE OF EDWARDS To speak of Jonathan Edwards to a company of New Englanders, still more to speak of him within the walls of an institution built in a manner to enshrine his memory and perpetuate his influence, is an adventurous task for one whose home is in another continent, and whose religious associations are different from those by which you are encircled. Yet there may be a fitness in one from another land being present at this interesting celebration, to bear to you greeting, and to testify that we in Scotland are not unmindful of the mighty debt we owe to New England -- which in truth all Christendom owes -- for the gift of a consecrated genius of such rare power and enduring influence as his whom you today commemorate. The name of Jonathan Edwards is one which entwines itself with the oldest recollections of many of us. We met with it in biography, in the literature of religion, in text-books and prelections in philosophy, in divinity systems, in allusions to the influence of Edwards on the thought and lives of other men; and, though one's ideas were sometimes vague enough of the man himself and of his actual surroundings and struggles at a time when, politically and religiously, everything in New England was yet in the making, the impression made upon us was always one of veneration for his character, admiration for his extraordinary genius, and awe at the searching spiritual power of his words. If I may indulge in reminiscence, it is forty years and more since I first made my own serious acquaintance with Edwards in poring over his treatise on The Freedom of the Will (I think it was as holiday reading: I have a...
