. Barnas Sears, a Christian educator; his making and work . pon hisunderstanding and heart, win for him theconfidence of his hearers, while the truth ofhis own feelings and his deep philosophicknowledge of the human heart enable him tospeak to it directly and powerfully in itsagonies and in its joys, in its repose and inits tumults. Like a part of nature he seemsto know all that human nature has felt orcan feel, and hence has a power over the sym-pathy of others with which few men aregifted. The strength of maternal affection,the confiding simplicity of childhood, the si-lent grief of the wido
. Barnas Sears, a Christian educator; his making and work . pon hisunderstanding and heart, win for him theconfidence of his hearers, while the truth ofhis own feelings and his deep philosophicknowledge of the human heart enable him tospeak to it directly and powerfully in itsagonies and in its joys, in its repose and inits tumults. Like a part of nature he seemsto know all that human nature has felt orcan feel, and hence has a power over the sym-pathy of others with which few men aregifted. The strength of maternal affection,the confiding simplicity of childhood, the si-lent grief of the widow, the loneliness of theorphan, the retrospect of old age . .all revive at his touch with the freshness oforiginal feelings. He thrills the heart withthe assaults of truth, not so much by follow-ing men in their business and pleasures as instealing upon those moments of reflectionwhen light flashes upon the conscience anddisturbs the dream of life. The man of theworld who is sometimes visited by a recollec-tion of early religious impressions, of a pious. F. A. Q. THOLUCK, A Christian Educator 43 fathers sacred counsels or of a motherstears; the man of business in whose path thefootsteps of providence are too plain to bedenied or doubted; the statesman who isoften driven back to religion as the onlyconservative principle of national security;professional men of every name, who, in allthe ultimate truths of science, find a mys-terious God; and the student who, in thestrife of human opinion, finds no resting placefor the soul,—these all bow, for the timebeing, to the preachers power, and acknowl-edge that he knows the way to their hearts;not unfrequently saying, Almost thou per-suadest me to be a Christian. As might beexpected, he is often the instrument of con-version, not only in his preaching, but alsoin his private intercourse and in his exten-sive correspondence. The plain, practicaldoctrines of Christianity are his principalthemes, and all things else come in as acci
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