His renown as preacher spread throughout the English-speaking world. The church prospered and a new building had to be erected to seat 1,500 every sitting was taken. In April 1858 he was called to be minister at Union Chapel in Manchester. His parishioners thought his sermons to them were the best he ever preached. His name and fame grew.His ministry fell into a quiet routine for which he was always grateful: two sermons on Sunday, a Monday prayer meeting and a Thursday service and lecture. He began his ministry there on June 28, 1846. Before Maclaren had finished his course of study he was invited to Portland Chapel in Southampton for three months those three months became twelve years. He was taught to study the Bible in the original and so the foundation was laid for his distinctive work as an expositor and for the biblical content of his preaching. "It just had to be."In the College he was thoroughly grounded in Greek and Hebrew. "I cannot ever recall any hesitation as to being a minister," he said. But his vocation, as he himself (a consistent Calvinist) might have said, was divinely decreed. He was tall, shy, silent and looked no older than his sixteen years. In 1842 he was enrolled as a candidate for the Baptist ministry at Stepney College, London. His life was his ministry his ministry was his life. He lived more than almost any of the great preachers of his time between his study, his pulpit, his pen.He subdued action to thought, thought to utterance and utterance to the Gospel. He had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. Maclaren was born in Glasgow on February 11, 1826, and died in Manchester on May 5, 1910. A collection of his Theological Works was published in Philadelphia in 1875.In his famous 1852 oratory, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", Frederick Douglass quoted Barnes as saying: "There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained in it."Barnes died in Philadelphia on December 24, 1870. Barnes was the author of several other works of a practical and devotional kind, including Scriptural Views of Slavery (1846) and The Way of Salvation (1863). Displaying no original critical power, their chief merit lies in the fact that they bring in a popular (but not always accurate) form the results of the criticism of others within the reach of general readers. The Notes on Job, the Psalms, Isaiah and Daniel found scarcely less acceptance. He was an eloquent preacher, but his reputation rests chiefly on his expository works, which are said to have had a larger circulation both in Europe and America than any others of their class.Of the well-known Notes on the Whole Bible, it is said that more than a million volumes had been issued by 1870. Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey (1825-1830), and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1830-1867).He held a prominent place in the New School branch of the Presbyterians during the Old School-New School Controversy, to which he adhered on the division of the denomination in 1837 he had been tried (but not convicted) for heresy in 1836, the charge being particularly against the views expressed by him in Notes on Romans (1835) of the imputation of the sin of Adam, original sin and the atonement the bitterness stirred up by this trial contributed towards widening the breach between the conservative and the progressive elements in the church. He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Albert Barnes (1798-1870) was an American theologian, born at Rome, New York, on December 1, 1798.
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