Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . the day after the navalvictory of MDonough over Downie on Lake Champlain,young Landon, who had witnessed the battle, stood on thegory deck of the flag-ship, Confiance, and said to himse]f ashe looked upon the remains of Downie and his officers laidout for burial: What is worldly honor to them now? Whatavails it to them if their souls are lost? A few monthsthereafter, when he was seventeen years of age, his pastor,William Ross, preached a sermon wh
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . the day after the navalvictory of MDonough over Downie on Lake Champlain,young Landon, who had witnessed the battle, stood on thegory deck of the flag-ship, Confiance, and said to himse]f ashe looked upon the remains of Downie and his officers laidout for burial: What is worldly honor to them now? Whatavails it to them if their souls are lost? A few monthsthereafter, when he was seventeen years of age, his pastor,William Ross, preached a sermon which powerfully arousedhis conscience, and led him to repentence and faith in JesusChrist. Mr. Ross received him as a probationer in thechurch September 12, 1815, exactly one year after the sceneshe witnessed on the deck of the Confiance had awakenedthose solemn thoughts in his mind. The same day and thenext he accompanied the preaeher to his appointments, andon the third day went with him in a sloop to a camp-meeting. On the way his pastor told him he believed God had 1 << Fifty years in the Ministry, by the Rev. Seymour Landon. p. REV. SEYMOUR LANDON. Record of Ministers. 253 called him to preach. He soon began a course of preparationfor the ministry, studying at an academy in St. Albans, Vt., andafterward with a Congregational minister, who strove to en-lighten his pupil in Calvinistic doctrines, and succeeded inconfounding the youthful Methodist. But it happened thatyoung Landon had the company of J B. Stratton, a sound andintellectual Methodist preacher, for two nights in a week dur-ing that time; and so, hearing both sides, he not only did notbecome a convert to Calvinism, but prepared himself to be amore successful defender of Methodist theology. He was licensed to exhort, without his knowledge or con-sent, and was soon afterward authorized to preach. Dissuadedfrom his cherished purpose of going to college, he accepted arecommendation to the New York Conference
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