Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by LUKE LOOMIS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania. Alexander Jaynes, Printer, Irwin's Row, Market Street, Pittsburgh. RECOMMENDATIONS. MR. LOOMIS. DEAR SIR,-With no ordinary pleasure I have read the manuscript you placed in my hands. I am very much pleased with it. Its style, like all the author's previous works, neat and simple. Its facts well chosen, and adapted to make lasting and salutary impressions. Its arguments and appeals, though I fear rather too high for the moral climate, strong and startling. Its doctrine of consecration may be easier called radical than proved unscriptural. I can endorse it. In a word, I think you will do a public benefit by throwing it upon the Christian church; for many will read it who may or will read nothing else. There is matter enough-but the difficulty is in getting it before the minds and hearts of professing Christians. I feel glad to see any prospect of informing the public mind, and regu. lating and directing the general sentiment on the all-absorbing subject of the world's conversion to God. June 27th, 1835. Yours, &c. D. H. RIDDLE, Pastor of the 3d Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. TO LUKE LOOMIS, Bookseller. July, 1835. Having perused the manuscript you sent me a few days ago, and which I presume you are about to publish in a small volume, under the title of "THE MONTHLY CONCERT," I can say I was pleased with it; and in case it is published, I can cheerfully recommend it to the Christian public, as furnishing useful directions for the observ. ance of the Monthly Concert; and also facts and reflections 5996, (RECAP) 9482 673 well adapted to awaken a missionary spirit, and call forth the prayers and efforts of the Church for the conversion of the world. FRANCIS HERRON, Pastor of the 1st Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. MR. LOOMIS. SIR, I have attentively read Mr. NEWCOMB's work on the conversion of the world, entitled "THE MONTHLY CONCERT," and deem it admirably calculated to rouse every individual and branch of the Christian church to renewed and increased exertions in behalf of the great object on which it treats. I think I will not go beyond the bounds of truth in pronouncing it the best on the subject that has come within the reach of my notice, not even excepting the excellent prize essay on the same topic. I trust you will meet with due encouragement in the publication, and that every Christian in the land will read it. August 3d, 1835. Yours sincerely, CHARLES ELLIOTT, Editor of the Pittsburgh Conference Journal. MR. LUKE LOOMIS. Pittsburgh, Aug. 14, 1835. DEAR SIR,-I have, with as much time and attention as I could spare, examined, in manuscript, the intended little volume, entitled "THE MONTHLY CONCERT," which you are about to publish. The design of such a work is certainly seasonable, judicious, and highly commendatory. It is painful to think how few works of this kind are abroad in the churches, widely and silently, but powerfully, calling up the thoughts of God's people to their privileges and responsibilities as to foreign missions, and preparing all hearts and hands for the upbuilding of the Redeemer's dominion in the earth. This little volume will come forth in its appropriate season; RECOMMENDATIONS. and, for a work intended to cover so much ground, and to be so concise and practical, I do not see how the author could have better filled up his plan. As to the Monthly Concert Prayer Meeting, it is manifest that he does not intend to prescribe a rigid formality as to the manner of preparing for, or of conducting it, or lay down a train of argument which must, of course, equally well fit every place and every mind. The pressure of obligation, the production of heart-felt interest, and the preservation of the life and power of the meeting, is what he wishes to effect; and this object the course of discussion is well fitted to promote. The facts chosen to show both the "condi tion and prospects of the heathen," and the practicability of doing much more for their temporal and eternal welfare, are happily selected, and well arranged. On this part of the work, that is, the selections illustrative of the ignor ance, vices, wants, miseries, and manifold privations of pagan nations, and the power of christianity to relieve them, the author has successfully bestowed great attention, and embodied much useful information. On the whole, without pretending to vouch for the accuracy of every statement, or the correctness of every opinion, I would most cheerfully recommend the publication of this little work in a form and on a plan to give it as wide a circulation as possible; and so far as my opinion may have any weight, I would in strong terms recommend it to the friends of the foreign missionary cause, as happily calculated to foster and extend the spirit of missionary enterprise. Yours, &c. E. P. SWIFT, Cor. Sec. of the West. For. Miss. Soc. Pittsburgh, Aug. 20, 1835. I fully and cheerfully concur in the above recommenda tion. J. W. BLYTHE, Pastor of the 2d Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. |