Excerpt from The Modern Pulpit Viewed in Its Relation to the State of Society College at Spring Hill, near Birmingham. The plan of a building, to be raised by public subscription, ufficiently spacious to become the residence of fifty students, and which, with its furniture, will cost, it is calculated, little less than has been agreed upon; and such progress has been made in Obtaining contributions toward that Object, through the inde fatigable labours of my esteemed friend and brother, the Rev. Timothy East, as to warrant the expectation, that within five years the intended edifice will be raised. Early in the next year, also, a building, on a scale no less extended, and dedicated to the same Objects, will be completed near Manchester, nearly the whole cost. Of which has been met by the liberality of the dissenting churches in Lancashire belonging to one denomination only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.