E-text prepared by Al Haines
Jeremiah Saunderson had remained in the low estate of a "probationer" fortwelve years after he left the Divinity Hall, where he was reported sogreat a scholar that the Professor of Apologetics spoke to himdeprecatingly, and the Professor of Dogmatics openly consulted him onobscure writers. He had wooed twenty-three congregations in vain, fromchurches in the black country, where the colliers rose in squares oftwenty, and went out without ceremony, to suburban places of worship,where the beadle, after due consideration of the sermon, would take upthe afternoon notices and ask that they be read at once for purposes ofutility, which that unflinching functionary stated to the minister withaccura