Noah Calwell W. Cannon

“ Now, Lord, we are assembled, and now we most humbly beseech thee to bless us in all our undertakings, that we may know thee in truth and serve thee aright, and that all our actions may tend to thy glory and to our advancement in knowledge and virtue, for we beseech thee, O Lord God, to bless this our present assembling, for thou art the great preserver of all mankind ”

“ My deaf fellow-laborers in the gospel of Christ, there is something awful in the thought of eternity; how watchful should we be to be prepared to approach the judgment seat al the great day, and at his tribunal to hear our doom, come ye blessed, depart ye cursed. But if we have complyed with charity, our conscience will be clear, of having done our duty unto God and all men; for here is a duty encumbent upon us, to live such lives before the world as will entitle us to the smiles of our blessed Redeemer in that decisive hour. ”

“ Triumphant are we come together to part no more: the glorious song will be sung, victory, we have overcome, and to enter into that great assembly the church of the first born. Now to the wicked look back O my soul and wonder, could it be possible that an intelligent man or woman, could neglect their soul's salvation, while the gospel trumpet was sounding unto them to awake and fly to Jesus, for there is no other help found, nor no other name given whereby man can have salvation! ”

“ In a mystical sense the preachers of the gospel, in order to spiritual conquests, must not only sound with the trumpet of the word of God, but must also break their earthern petition by the mortification of the flesh and its passions, and carry lamps in their hands by the light of their virtue: a meek and humble answer to God, otherwise they might have come to extremities, so great is the power of humility, both with God and man. ”

“ O think, your bones are not iron, your flesh is not brass, and if it was hell, fire will be as a moth to you, through the countless ages of eternity; but now you have time to hear the gospel and attend to the duties which God has called upon you to perform, by bowing to the sceptre of his word, renouncing sin, submit to your sovereign Lord and learn his will divine. O fellow creatures, this is the state of free grace, will you come, for it will soon be too late, the way of life in Christ is for you to choose ”

“ It is a duty they owe to God to instruct the simple in the knowledge of the gospel, so that we may all live in peace in time and in eternity; together we stand but if divided we are sure to fall and great will be that fall; this is well known to the ignorant men, for the wise man Solomon said, in the multitude of counsel there is great safety; this will answer in civil and religious government, for union is the strength of ail society, justice is her wall, love is her foundation, and victory is her cover. ”

“ If this is a wonder to the people, how is it possible that men can preach Christ and never have received him? Remember that the devil can come in the light of an angel, and can show great wonders, but he betrays himself by having no love, for when on the mount speaking unto our Lord, he thought that he was about to do wonders; the third time he spake he did his best by telling Christ if he would fall down and worship him he would give him all the kingdoms of the earth; in this he did his best, and it was a lie at last, for he has not got the hell where he dwells, for hell has him. ”

“ The life of a christian minister is always to hold fast unto union with love and fidelity; to love God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his might and strength, his neighbor as himself, When one of these men stand in a place to preach, God attends the word with power and energy; like Peter in the day of Pentecost, and three thousand souls were pricked to the heart and the commencement of the speed of the everlasting gospel; the fire that was kindled at the death of our Lord on the cross, it burnt with love and great zeal ”

“ Beloved, how precious and wonderful are the gifts of God; life in immortality, glory in justice, truth in liberty, faith in confidence, temperance in holiness, all which are certainly known unto us; how great then, must be those things, which are prepared for those who wait upon the Lord, the holy creator and farther of ages ! Knowing their extent, and their beauty, let us, therefore, seriously endeavor to be found among the number of those who look for him, so that we may be made partakers of his promised gifts. ”

“ We understand that Princes shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hand unto God: the evils which are now coming upon the people for their sins, which will come hereafter upon all impenitent sinners, if dying without repentance, and the foresight which I have of these miseries, therefore, I beg the sinner, in the name of the Lord, turn, turn, O ye house of Israel, for why will you die, now is the accepted lime, and the day of salvation. ”

“ Now here read with attention as for eternity; though we say this or that, O remember that eternity is home in heaven or in hell. Now if all this is right then remember the- words of the wise man, to remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. If clouds be full of rain they empty themselves upon the earth, and if the tree fall towards the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall lie; whatsover the hands findeth to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work or device, or knowledge, or wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest. ”

“ O, wilt thou answer our prayers, thou most holy and glorious Lord God; the great builder of the universe, the great giver of all good gifts and graces, thou hast promised that where two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt be in the midst of them and that to bless. ”

“ By this we may see that there is danger in falling, if we do not continue in prayer, for prayer is the key that unlocks heaven, and gets the blessings down into the soul. Unbelief is another key that locks the heavens against the soul, for Judas, as soon as he ceased praying, the heavens were closed against him for thirty pieces of silver. And I am afraid that there are thousand now who will shut heaven against themselves for the sum of six and a quarter cents or a less sum. Let us take heed to ourselves least we fall like Babylon of old, to rise no more. ”

“ To preach the gospel, is to preach it in the purity of life, as a system enforced by divine authority, commanding submission in the name of the Lord Jesus, under the pain of eternal death, and with a promise of eternal life to all who shall hear it. ”

“ Now with the great command to Abraham to offer up his son Isaac, the Paskal lamb, the mercy-seat, the sprinkling of blood and making; atonement for the sins of the people, was the type of the Messiah, who commanded the patriarch and prophet from time to time, foretold he was Jacob-Shiloh unto whom the gathering of the people should be; Job's redeemer, that shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; Moses' prophets, unto whom all should hearken; hosannah O King! the annointed; David's King, set on Zion's hill, who shall have the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession ”

“ I am so inadequate to give counsel to the public, but my soul is at stake, and if I be a watchman indeed, when I see the sword of the Lord coming upon the people, I will, indeed, blow the trumpet, to warn you all as a faithful man of God. ”

“ Life is the hour that God has given,
⁠To escape from hell and fly to heaven:
The day of grace, and mortals may
⁠Secure the blessings of the day.
3. The living know that they must die:
⁠But all the dead forgotten lie ”

“ Love is its foundation, salvation the walls and its covering is victory: it is insured forever, while time lasts, and eternity rolls: it is fire proof, and water cannot drown it, for this reason the master above said, bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples, so that it may stand unto the redemption day. ”

“ Now the great College of God is to give that pure lesson of truth and light: knowledge to serve him so that they may safely arrive to the kingdom of God. At this time Saul was in great rage and in war, but the great master of life and death, who cuts off one half of all mankind while they are children, has been pleased, sometimes, to ordain that his children should be put to the sword, in detestation of the crimes of their parents, and that they might not live to follow the same wicked ways; but without such ordinance of God it is not allowable in any war, however just, to kill children. ”

“ The sinner will not come and go with us, therefore, we must bid him good by, mid escape to the mountains looking to the great helm of righteousness.
In a single state of life, or a marriage state, let virtue be our principal aim and object. ”

“ Those whose sins are forgiven will be afraid of sinning again, knowing the power of temptation, we pray to be kept from it, temptation is any thing which makes a trial of us and proves what is in our heart; temptation is not a sin, but by yielding to the temptor, there we condemn the word; resist the Devil and he shall flee from you; afflictions are God's trials of us for our good but all Satan's temptations are to lead us to evil ”

“ What a thing, it is for a man to be deceived in regard to his everlasting welfare. We ought to search our hearts with a scrutinizing eye, looking to Jesus for help, and with an humble reliance upon him as our rock and our salvation.
Consider this one thing, all we that come to the holy communnion, we must come without; malice, without hating our neighbor, with a heart resigned to do unto our neighbor as we would wish that he should do unto us. This is a thing that will justify us before God, for he said "for my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed ”

“ The philosophy of the system, and it has a philosophy, is another affair; every christian must have sometimes been sensible of an insensible majesty and authority in the preacher, who proclaims the gospel solely as the word of God, commanding submission in his name. This, I presume, is what is meant by preaching it, not with the enticing words of men's wisdom, but in the demonstration of the spirit, and that with power. By this we may see the sun at his high meridian, which is the beauty of the day. ”

“ Knowledge is attained, and by the degrees of wisdom, the love of God dwells in the soul, with a contemplation; there we seek her, though the passage be difficult, the farther we proceed the easier it will become and if we are united as the true ministers of God, We will flourish in time and be crowned in eternity; and if so, let all these things give place to peace, and let the true fellowship unite us in the great grand design; let us be happy in ourselves, and endeavor to contribute to the happiness of others; let us promote the useful arts of pure religion, as ministers among the people ”

“ I never knew in my life, for a man and woman, being wife and husband, living the life of the gospel, that ever had any call, or even a moving of the mind, to depart, in a temporal sense, much more in a spiritual one, and you may take it for granted, that if ever you see a man and woman, or as you may call it, husband and wife, separate from each other, the devil is in the midst, for he is the author of confusion, and that is the reason they cannot have any peace, for one wrong never rights a wrong on the other hand. ”

“ We as brothers, preachers of one Christ, to which we are the distinguishing characteristics, are universal benevolence and unbounded charity, we cannot therefore, but be fond of our order and jealous for the great interests of free ministers in Christ, which in the strongest manner, inculcates the same charity and benevolence, and which, like that religion, encourages every moral and social virtue among ministers, to which introduces peace and good will to those who otherwise might have remained at a perpetual distance until now, and we might have died and gone down to hell. ”

“ If Jehovah be the author of Christianity, and Jesus Christ the son of God, then our religion must finally prevail, and all the promises concerning the welfare of Zion, will surely be accomplished, but the natural probability from the violent opposition of the world is against us, and Paganism is victorious from the throne to the cottage. It is not impossible that we may be deceived, man perhaps, is doomed to wander in darkness, doubt, and perplexity, through the valley of this world forlorn and ignorant of a life to come, without a true knowledge of his maker and his God. ”