07 Dec




















ordinary life, travel, business transactions and such like matter of fact affairs. What clear, pungent illustration of expiation and substitution and the duty of complete repentance he used to draw from the ordinary occurrences of human life, and all pre- sented in the most idiomatic English. He never lacked a word or apt phrase, but it was always clean and chaste. He was deficient in the mental quali- ties which produce flqridity in eloquence, and which takes deliofht in elaborate ornamentation. Yet he had a sublimity about him, which lifted him into lofty heights at times ; and at such times the thought and speech of the man did not alone seem to rise but the man himself. Such occurrences were some- what rare, and the flights short, but his strokes were those of the eagle. He had large power of pathos, although he rarely showed it. I remember a chapel sermon on 'Looking to Jesus." when almost every face was wet with weeping, and another on the ' Solace there is in Jesus at the time of death,' when some of the audience broke out in sobs. At such times his soul seemed in flame Avith a divine fervor.'' In reference to his work in Fall River, previous to his installation, he said: "I liave to work verv Early Work. 11 hard here. I am as emphatically a missionary as though I were in Damascus. I go from house to

Comments
* The email will not be published on the website.
I BUILT MY SITE FOR FREE USING