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MEMOIRS

OF THE

REV. DR. MURRAY.

CHAPTER I.

Birth, Parentage, and Early Associations.-Hardships of his Childhood and Youth.-Comes to this Country.-Enters the Harpers' Printing Establishment.-Religious Awakening.-What he saw of Popery when a Boy.--How he was disgusted with the System.

Coming to America.

The future.

THE ship Martha, from Dublin, about forty-five years ago, brought a crowd of Irish emigrants to our shores. Among them was a lad seventeen years old, who had come alone to seek his fortune in the western world. In the month of July, 1818, he set his foot in the streets of New York, with little money in his pocket, and no place to call his home. It would have been presumption to predict that this friendless, wandering Roman Catholic boy would become a distinguished Protestant divine, a champion of the faith, and win a name to go back on the wings of fame to the green isle he had left.

Such a lad was Nicholas Murray; such was his introduction to this country, and such was his future ca

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