The Voice of God in Calamity: or, Reflections on the Loss of the Steam-Boat Home, October 9, 1837, A Sermon: Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Charleston, on Sabbath Morning, October 22, 1837

Thomas Smyth’s 1837 sermon on the loss of the steam-packet Home urges Charleston to repent in light of calamity, emphasizing God’s judgment and providence.

Thomas Smyth was an Irish-born American Presbyterian minister and theologianwho served as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, for over four decades, authored numerous works defending Presbyterian polity and doctrine, and held to Old School confessional standards while engaging major issues of his day. He also wrote The Unity of the Human Races Proved to Be the Doctrine of Scripture defending monogenism and was a prominent religious figure in the antebellum and Civil War South.

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