Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . o Christians grow pure by steadily approximatingGod. The price paid by one who rises in the scale of experience becomesconstantly larger, but it is ever one currency—the gold of self-surrender;that, and that only, is legal-tender, and must be paid whether the blessingsought be initial or completive. One progresses in spirituality as in any thingelse, by a process of repetition. * * * We receive Christ by faith, and cangrow up into him only by a re
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . o Christians grow pure by steadily approximatingGod. The price paid by one who rises in the scale of experience becomesconstantly larger, but it is ever one currency—the gold of self-surrender;that, and that only, is legal-tender, and must be paid whether the blessingsought be initial or completive. One progresses in spirituality as in any thingelse, by a process of repetition. * * * We receive Christ by faith, and cangrow up into him only by a repetition of that exercise. It is the alphabet ofall religion, and spells every possible experience. His sermons abound in metaphor, and are always interesting,practical, useful, and often truly eloquent. He is rather belowthe medium height, and stouter than the portrait would indi-cate ; of blue eyes and light complexion. Mr. Breckinridge was married, in June, 1863, to Miss MaryAdeline Ashley, daughter of the Hon. R. T Ashley, of Sus-quehanna County, Pa. Their children are Rollin Ashley B.,aged seventeen, and Florence £.y ten years of A<A REV. ICHABOD SIMMONS, M. A. LXXXVIII,ICHABOD SIMMONS. ands-street church has enjoyed the services ofthirty-one different presiding elders. After the saint-ly Foster and Willis came Garrettson and Morrell,and other high-minded and noble men, who haz-arded their lives for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Alittle later the district was placed in charge of such royal pre-siding elders as Samuel Merwin, Peter P Sandford, LabanClark, Daniel Ostrander, Buel Goodsell, John Kennaday, andothers of equal fame and power. The last in the successionthus far is the Rev Ichabod Simmons, He is the son of Ichabod and Marcia B. Simmons, and wasborn in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Mass., December 24, strong attachment to Methodism is not an inheritance, hisfather having been a Universalist, and his mother not a mem-ber of any church. He w
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