He became a member of the great literary club, the Poker,
where he associated with Hume, A. Carlyle, Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith
and others, and enjoyed a high reputation as a preacher and critic.
The lectures he published on style are elegantly written, but weak in
thought, and his sermons share the same fault. They are composed with
great care, and sometimes a single discourse cost him a week's labor,
but they are formal and destitute of feeling and sometimes even
affected in style. Blair was notable for fastidiousness in dress and
manners, and took very seriously the reputation he was given for
refinement and common-sense as one of the moderate divines. He died in
1800.
BLAIR
1718--1800
THE HOUR AND THE EVENT OF ALL TIME
_Jesus lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said, Father! the hour is
come_.--John xvii., 1.
These were the words of our blest Lord on a memorable occasion. The
feast of the Passover drew nigh, at which He knew that He was to
suffer. The night was arrived wherein He was to be delivered into the
hands of His enemies. He had spent the evening in conference with His
disciples, like a dying father in the midst of his family, mingling
consolations with His last instructions.
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