The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . I lIev. ILeman Humphrey, D. D. 415. Bey. Timothy Dwiqht, D. D. 27 417 CONGREGATIONALISTS. , 419 ysis, but often absurd in his conclusions; but the grandson, no meta-physican, yet always guided by an intuitive common sense. Few mencan afford so much hewing, and yet have so much left. But my business is with his speaking, His form wTas prepossess-ing ; he marched into the pulpit with a slow, solemn air, his keenblack eyes covered b
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . I lIev. ILeman Humphrey, D. D. 415. Bey. Timothy Dwiqht, D. D. 27 417 CONGREGATIONALISTS. , 419 ysis, but often absurd in his conclusions; but the grandson, no meta-physican, yet always guided by an intuitive common sense. Few mencan afford so much hewing, and yet have so much left. But my business is with his speaking, His form wTas prepossess-ing ; he marched into the pulpit with a slow, solemn air, his keenblack eyes covered by his green spectacles, his dress behind the fashion,but grave and decent, hair close cropped, white-top boots ; a man ofsolid large bone, large muscle, and just escaping the embonpoint; aman whose looks won audience before he spoke ; and wrhose very formassured you, if he uttered folly or weakness, nature had belied herworkmanship. He was the antipodes of Buckminster ; he had none ofhis delicacy, and four times his strength. The one waved a myrtlewand over an audience, and the other a Herculean club. Dr. Dwightsgeneral style wTas didactic, clear—that is, as to his own meaning—in-structive,
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