Memoir Of David Coulter

Memoir Of David Coulter

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 188? Original Publisher: Presbyterian Pub. Co. Subjects: Sermons Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART CHILDHOOD. ATOVEMBER 8th, 1808, was the day of my J. birth. The place of this occurrence was in the State of Delaware, Sussex county, about ten miles east of Georgetown, the county-seat, and seven miles west of Lewestown, whose outlook is the Bay of Delaware, where it widens out between Cape Henlbpen and Cape May into the broad Atlantic. The home of my parents was a comfortable farm house, about one mile south of Cool Spring Presbyterian church, of which my parents were members, and where, in my infancy, as a child of the covenant, I was baptized. The name of my father was Jesse, and that of my mother, Elizabeth. They were both righteous before God, endeavoring to walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. They gave to their son the name of David, hoping that its Scriptural associations might exert a happy influence in the formation of his character. My personal recollection of my father is very indistinct, as he departed this life before I had completed my fourth year. I am persuaded, however, from incidents related to me by my mother, and from records of the exercise of his mind which I have read, that he was a man of earnest piety. My early training, with that of a younger sister, was almost wholly the work of my sainted mother. I have a very distinct recollection of her pleadings with a covenant-keeping God, as she knelt with us in prayer -- herself in front and her children on either side of the same chair -- in her daily devotions. ...