The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . istances to supply thepulpit; or deacons meetings, distasteful to many, give opportu-nity for loud reading from printed volumes. Of the audience isthe Academy Preceptor, a man of accomplishments, of unusualoratorical excellence, both extempore and written, and of genialpiety. Why not make him the preacher on Sunday ? We shall 140 WILLIAM HENKY MILBUKN. find that not two divines of tlie county can surpass his pulpiteloquence. Her
The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . istances to supply thepulpit; or deacons meetings, distasteful to many, give opportu-nity for loud reading from printed volumes. Of the audience isthe Academy Preceptor, a man of accomplishments, of unusualoratorical excellence, both extempore and written, and of genialpiety. Why not make him the preacher on Sunday ? We shall 140 WILLIAM HENKY MILBUKN. find that not two divines of tlie county can surpass his pulpiteloquence. Here is a thriving city. A revival occurs in a large church. Thepastor is worn with excessive labor. The people, hungry for bread,demand preaching every night. Connected with the church is alawyer whose eloquence holds crowded court-rooms, for successivehours, in rapt attention. He is also a good man and true, and sifervent Chiistian. Why not make him the preacher for Mondayand Wednesday evenings ? We all say that a Free Press is the Palladium of free it not time to inquire whether a Free Pulpit is not the prerequisiteto an universal Christianity ?. i!?
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