A Tour in Connaught Comprising Sketches of Clonmacnoise Joyce Country And Ach
A Tour in Connaught Comprising Sketches of Clonmacnoise Joyce Country And Ach
Caesar Otway
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Of all men I ever met he knew best how to suit his discourse to his hearers, and therefore he would venture to adapt his images to the habits and comprehension of his audience; and certainly what he said with great effect to a congregation of Connaught peasants, would have been exceedingly offensive to the tastes of a city audience. Oh! if Ireland had had half a century ago many such coarse, quaint, but at the same time, faithful preachers in the Irish language as S, what a change, under God's ...blessing, would have come over the face of the country. S was de- signedly a coarse and homely preacher; he dwelt in images and illustrations that came home to the daily habits and modes of thinking of the people. He was also a Calvinist. Preaching one day on the doctrine of final perseverance, he set about making it comprehensible, by comparing God's dealing towards one of his chosen people to a father's conduct to- wards his child. " If one of your little ones were to stray away from the cabin door, and if it should fall down and dirty itself, would you not take it up, wipe its little frock and say, ' stas ma bouchall, ' that's my good boy 1, stand up again; but come jewel, don't be after falling any more.
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