THE CAMP AND THE SANCTUARY: OR The Power of Religion, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE ARMY AND THE CHURCH. A MEMOIR OF THOMAS HASKER, FORMERLY OF THE 1ST DRAGOON Guards. INTENDED AS A COMPANION TO "THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH." BY JAMES EVERETT. "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., PATERNOSTER-ROW. 210. m. 133, TO WILLIAM NESHAM, ESQUIRE, THE FRIEND, SUPPORTER, AND ADVOCATE OF "PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION;" WHO BY HIS MEDICAL SKILL, MITIGATED THE PAINS OF A SUFFERING SERVANT OF GOD, AND SOOTHED HIS SPIRIT ON ENTERING “The Valley of the Shadow of Death," THIS MEMOIR IS INSCRIBED, BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. Common-place character-God delights in variety-what constitutes character-the effect of Incident-Senti- mentalism-Parentage-Birmingham riots-fever- ish state of political feeling-Secularities in connec- tion with the Christian Ministry-embarrassments in trade education - fickleness-waywardness- symptoms of vagrancy-volunteers-the drum and ... Continued fluctuations-leaves the Volunteers-death of Mrs. Hasker-traits of character-money borrowed under false pretences-shiftings-goods on credit- the fife and drum -a last and lost effort-enlists as a soldier-other characteristic traits-power of reli- gion-form and features-destitution of religious knowledge and feeling-defect in domestic training -correct conduct in a parent essential to success——— 19. |
