The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-14 00:00:00

Cbe No. XI.VI. Wide ie son's sword we new cent With that atoms extirpate Here. p HUNTINGTON RESTORED! OR, TUE War. OPENING OF lIIS NEW CHAPEL. Providence has now rectified the chapel first dedicated to its protection. Mr. - Huntington's original meeting-house having been destroyed by fire, about twelve months ago, every exertion was immediately made to repair the loss; and another meeting house, infinitely surpassing the original edifice, whether in point of situation oras to effect, is pow built, with the following super sctiptioli on its front. PROVIDENCE CHAPEL, IntECTED* NY 9 , • . • • WILLIAM HUNTINGTON • . ANN° 1811. • . 4 e Itindlng.nothing could be done with the earth-holders," says Mr.. Huntington, speaking of the chapel he first built, turned my eyes anotheXway, and determined to build my stories in the heaven, Atitos ix. 6; where I should find more room and less rent; and to this my friends agreed ; namely, to raise the chapel see story higher, and jo carry a flight of galleries all round it." No such difficulty has Impeded hint now. Having found " the earth-holders" of Gray's-Inn Lane more practicable than those of Little.Tichfield Street, he has now had no occasion " to build stories in the he'aveli," but, finding room more than enough, Mr. Huntington has nosobailt, " erected" says its tablet, a very spa cious, as Well as handsome, chapel; " the heat of" which, " in times of service," is nooiiie.ly " to be almost unbearable," and which, therefore,4 will ndt coon be " thought necessary to en large." • Nothing remains of the old meeting-house but the hangings to the pulpit, and the cushion.. Nothing if its name snay be excepted. " The name that I gave to the chapel," ob— serves Mr. Huntington concerning the former, i‘ has offended Many. However, since it was named, I have seen a place called Providence Court, (Providence. Place is now erecting,) and a place ailed Trinity Chapel, where the Trinity is little known I believe : —this was not .the case," he adds, " at the naming of Prtividetie Chapel." Here let Mr. Huntington have his due. Surelyrarpen ter's House of God' carries more of vaunting with it than Providence Chapel.' . - Sunday, the 23d ult., being fixed upon for religiously opening the new Providence Chapel, numbers of persons began to repair thither long before the tine of service ; although the opening w►as sudden, before the building was complete, and notwith standing that the sabhath , eventually determined upon for this important proceeding was by no means generally known amongst Mr. Huntington's hearers. He preached twice. For his morn ing text he chose—The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, sgith the Lord of hosts; and for his evening text, the connected words— The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that If theformer, with the Lord of hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saint the Lord of hosts. These texts were chosen from the prophet Maggal, hW second chapter, verses eight and nine. Mr Huntington appears to have acquired strength from the repose in which he has for some time been enabled to Indulge ; while his oratorical inactivity has not In the least relaxed those powers which peculiarly distinguished him. He was quite him • selt, and pleased those hearers who knew him. It was as clear, nevertheless, that he disappointed some who heard him. Many of these mistakingly anticipated a temporal application of his subject. Those who are not aware of this preacher's habits of apirittialislng his texts upon all occasions, frequently to ar cant, vagarrce, expected that " die silver and the gold," spoken of by Haggai, wo,tki have been by Mr. Huntington appropriated to 443 . tHE NATIONAL -REGISTEII. Providence Chapel; that, the glory of this chapel being greater than that of the first, the prophet's words would have been ap plied literally to "the glory of this latter house;" and that, lastly, knowing how tire destroyed the first chapel, the promise , of peace" and in this place will I give peace"—would haie been interpreted as• of course belonging to the present Chapel in Gray's-Inn Lune. Hearers such as these soon found out their mistake. Evangelical yet judicious, the preacher for once dis appointed the lovers of pulpit; eccentricity, and the patrons of pulpit absurdities. There was much that called for thought; there was nothin at which to laugh. Huntington seems so far to have amended ! • Every thing relating to such an Individual as glier.sAss Hots. TlNo•rort will one day be deemed of importance to the history of religiOn in this kingdom. Fully impressed with this view of his clerical character, I have thought it incumbent on me to re-. cord the recent opening of his new I'rovidence Chapel. The • thing is done, and was Well done. He chose his time. 'He opened his present chapel, where he seems likely to have peace, the very Sunday before Midsummer-day, ex• actly- at the point of time when the admissions to it ought to be renewed, anti thus re•colltxted his congregation before Mi• chaelmas, without losing time. lie opened this chapel too, ex actly at the point of time when an extraordinary competitor (hereafter to be noticed) had made an unexpected appearance in our metropolis, and was actually on the eve of dividing his flock! Congregations frequently forsake declining Ministers. It was an apostolic caution, respecting Timothy, " let no - maa despise thy youth:" let none neglect thy grey hairs, respecting Ministers, caution inculcwes to this age. Genius is entitled to respect Huntington has his kmitatorii but time will not readily find his successor. " I never read, in all the Bible," says Mr. H., " that the poor eat up the rich; for I think every poor man in England will hold with me in this particular, that the rich are agreed to keep that person poor who is poor." Hu was posr once : he is rich now. Poverty and Mr. W. Huntington have long since • separated. " When my coach came home," B;rys Mr. H., " and my family had been once or twice to chapel in it, and the report of it had gone abroad, it was truly laughable to see the.sorrow, the hard labour, and sore travail, that fell upon some poor souls on the account of it," &c. And it is " truly laughable," one may add, to witness when his coach now comes to take theta up, the avidity with which the Mob, watching at the door of hie chapel, wait to Fee his family and himself gtt into the coach, and drive off! 'llia gr,'..at wonder lasts beyond nine days. 024 maws. RECANTATION. • gi Dublin, July 6, 1111. " A few days since, the Society for Discounte nancing Vice, which chiefly consists of Clergymen of the Established Religion, were met together, when the Professor of the Scriptures (the Rev. Mat• thew Crowley), from the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, requested an interview with them; which being obtained, lie stated that his object was to declare his intentions of renouncing the errors of . Popery, and to become 'a Member of the Church o; England, and that 150 of his pupils were ready to follow his example. The Society inforrned him, that the busineiis was inconsistent with the objects of their Institution ; but that after the . Meeting should be closed, they would, as private- individu als, communicate with him. 11.` conference took place accordingly." 44 Yesterday morning the Rev. Matthew• Crow. ley, Professor of the Sacred Scriptures, at the College of: Maynooth, read his recantation at Christ Church Cathedral.