{"id":1481,"date":"2019-12-02T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T19:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2019-12-02T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T19:54:53","slug":"baptist-history-and-heritage-short-stories-about-heroes-of-the-faith-spencer-houghton-cone-chosen-chaplain-to-congress-part-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/02\/baptist-history-and-heritage-short-stories-about-heroes-of-the-faith-spencer-houghton-cone-chosen-chaplain-to-congress-part-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptist History and Heritage \u2013 Short Stories About Heroes of the Faith – Spencer Houghton Cone \u2013 Chosen Chaplain to Congress – PART NINE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Thomas E Kresal<\/a> December 2, 2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

For six hours each day I was crowded with business at the treasury, so that I had but a small portion of time to devote to reading. I had no one to consult with as to subjects for the pulpit, or the proper manner of treating them. My mind was graciously led to preach Christ in his offices — Prophet, Priest, King, Advocate, Shepherd, Friends, etc. — to dwell on the work of the Spirit and the evidences of Christian character, and compare these things with my own experience, and above all, I was led in preaching the way of life, to say what I knew, and no more; and then read, and think, and pray, till I acquired additional knowledge, and then give it to the people. In this way, with many struggles, and tears, and misgivngs, and sleepless hours at night, I was enabled to preach twice a week every Lord’s day for six weeks, to unusually large and attentive assemblies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preachers and lawyers, and clerks, and heads of departments, and infidels came from every part of the district to hear what the actor had to say about religion; and when I look back upon those scenes I am constrained to exclaim, ‘what hath God wrought?’ When I reflect that the fear of man never troubled me in the pulpit for a moment; that even in the commencement of my ministry, whatever were my internal struggles, I was strengthened to go through the service of the day with a large share of liberty and comfort, and that the plan of salvation through the various sufferings of the Son of God, as revealed to me in my conversion, is the only plan I have ever preached, I must ascribe it all to the guidance and protection of that ‘good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep,’ and to his name be all the glory.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was ordained in the Baptist church, Washington, Nov. 26th, 1815, nearly two years after his conversion. Soon after he was chosen chaplain to Congress. In 1826, he was called to the Baptist church in Alexandria. In 1833 he removed to New York, to take the charge of the Oliver Street church, where he remained until 1841, when he was unanimously called to the care of the First Baptist church in Broome Street. Here he labored with his wonted zeal till he was called home to the church triumphant above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas E. Kresal from – S. H. Ford, editor, Repository and Review, 1855, pp. 546-558.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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