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5. An Epistle to the Citizens of Kentucky professing Christianity, especially those that are or have been denominated Presbyterians, 1805.

6. A Second Epistle, &c. &c. 1808. And,

7. Letters on the evidences, nature, and effects of Christianity-composed for the use of his sons, in 1812, in the 79th year of his age-and published in the Weekly Recorder for 1814.

Mr. Rice was born in 1733, and died in 1816, aged 83 years.

He was licensed in 1762, aged 29 years. He laboured in Virginia 21 years. He lived in Kentucky 32 years, and laboured there say 30 years.

When in health he preached not only once, and twice, and sometimes three times, on every Sabbath, but also frequently on week days-say, at an average, thrice every week.

The whole of his active ministry may be said to have been fifty years, and fifty Sabbaths in every year make two thousand five hundred. This number doubled will probably give nearly the number of sermons or set dis courses delivered by him on the great concerns of etermity.

Say that for two thousand Sabbaths of his life, five heard him each time for the last time, and you have ten thousand immortals, who heard the message of salvation for the last time from the mouth of father Rice. Gospel hearer, and preacher of the gospel, it is an awful thought, that in every worshipping assembly, however small, there is probably some one hearing the message of sal vation for the last time-and that very few assemblies

on the Sabbath will ever again all meet in any one place, till they meet before the judgment-seat!

Making the average number of hearers for two thousand Sabbaths only fifty, and you have the number of one hundred thousand. And taking into view the extent of country over which Mr. Rice's stated labours were spread, the fluctuating state of society, and the journies of fifty years, one hundred thousand will not be too large a number for the amount of the different individuals to whom he made a tender of salvation. And to every one of these this gospel was, without a single exeeption, the savour of life unto life, or of death unto death. And a very large portion of these had departed and rendered their account before the departure of father Rice.

Reader, whosoever thou art, thy account is also soon to be rendered-and the account of thy Sabbath days will be particularly required.

APPENDIX.

No. 1.

CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIANS.

THE years 1800 and 1801 were distinguished by an uncommon religious excitement among the Presbyterians of Kentucky. This excitement began in Logan county, and soon extended all over the state, and inte the neighbouring states and territories. Besides increas ed attention to the usual and ordinary seasons and modes of worship, there were, during the summers of these years, large camp-meetings held, and four or five days and nights at a time were spent in almost incessant religious exercises. At these meetings hundreds, and in some cases thousands of people might have been seen and heard at one and the same time engaged in singing, and prayer, and exhortation, and preaching, and leaping, and shouting, and disputing, and conversing. It was in meetings and exercises of this kind that the Cumberland Presbyterians had their origin.

Previous to the first meeting of the Kentucky Synod, which was in October, 1802, all the ministers and churches south of the Kentucky river were under the inspection of one Presbytery, and it was within the bounds of this Presbytery, and particularly in the setAlements on the waters of Green river and Cumberland,

that the religious excitement was the greatest. It was supposed by many good men that the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the churches in a degree nearly equal to what was seen and felt on the day of Pentecost, and Consequently, that ministerial gifts and ministerial graces were bestowed in greater abondance, and to a greater extent, than any of that generation had ever witnessed Hence at the fall meeting of Presbytery in 1801, it was proposed that the ordinary rules of the Presbyterian church respecting literary qualifications, and the length of time to be spent in the regular study of divinity, by all candidates for the holy ministry, should be dispensed with, and that four men, who were produced, should be taken immediately under trials for license; and a majority of the members of Presbytery being in favour of the measure, it was adopted, though strenuously opposed by a respectable minority.

At the first meeting of the Kentucky Synod, the Presbytery was divided, and a new Presbytery formed, to be called the Cumberland Presbytery. This new Presbytery being chiefly composed of those who had been warmest in supporting the new measures, they went on with great rapidity in their own way. Many offered themselves, and were (to use the words of the Presbytery) "licensed as regular exhorters," and "authorized to make public appointments in any congregation or settlement within the bounds of the Fresbytery." Messrs. were "licensed to exhort in

the bounds of the Presbytery, or wherever God in his providence may call them." The churches under the care of the Presbytery were ordered "to contribute to

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