Pulpit Portraits Or Pen Pictures of Distinguished American Divines With Sket
Pulpit Portraits Or Pen Pictures of Distinguished American Divines With Sket
John Ross Dix
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I confess I have never been able to see why there should be an elaboration of manner and matter for the pulpit or platform which would be scorned OF THR 104 PULPIT PORTRAITS : OR | in the parlor or drawing-room. What we want is honest rhetoric, manliness of speech, plainness, and a determi- nation to make the thought in hand known and felt ; to put it in its largest and lowest relations ; to set it in the frame w|^pf a most simple diction. The secret of all oratory ^fe e genuine sense will be t...o be alive to the subject ana dead to self, and this is possible. When these requisites blend in the speaker, it is needless to say the orator and the teacher are one. The latter Dr. Baron Stow most assuredly is, and there are times when he most happily adds to it the attributes of the former. CHAPTER IX. SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. TRINITY CHURCH YARD. EARLY CHURCH IMPRESSIONS. DR. MAGOON'S CHURCH. WHIST- LING A PSALM-TUNE. SKETCH OF REV. E. L. MAGOON. HIS STYLE. THERE are few things so disagreeable to me, as being in a strange city on the Sabbath.
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