The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . ceum lectures, sympathize with allsorrows, receive all confidences, and attend all funerals, for the recom-pense of words, often meager at that; while performing all preachingand pastoral labor for the most economical livelihood. If the princi-ple of the Quakers were adopted, we should have nothing to say;but a paid ministry in theory and an unpaid one in fact, worksbadly for both parties. Either the official duties of the profe
The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . ceum lectures, sympathize with allsorrows, receive all confidences, and attend all funerals, for the recom-pense of words, often meager at that; while performing all preachingand pastoral labor for the most economical livelihood. If the princi-ple of the Quakers were adopted, we should have nothing to say;but a paid ministry in theory and an unpaid one in fact, worksbadly for both parties. Either the official duties of the professionmust be lessened, and thus the pastor have time and strength tomake out an honest living in some secular employment, or the sal-aries must be increased. We doubt whether the self-denial, in-sisted on for the profession, consists, in these latter days, in doingwithout books, newspapers, quarterlies, and carpets. Christian self-denial and ministerial consecration can be seen in a higher and truersense, even more difficult and more testing, with which suitable sur-roundings do not interfere, and to which the rack and wheel ofremorseless debt is not **v., {^%S^ ^ /^^f^/^ c^ ORYILLE DEWEY, THE UNITARIAN PREACHER. But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,and we in Him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, andwe by Him. Orville Dewey was born in Sheffield, Berkshire county, Mas-sachusetts, March 28th, 1794. His father was a farmer, occupyinga highly respectable position as a citizen. He gave his son all theadvantages of education whicli the town afforded, and sent him, atthe age of seventeen, to Williams College, in the same county, wherehe connected himself with the Sophomore class. This institution has always had a reputation, perhaps more thanany college in New England, for exerting a marked religious influ-ence upon its members. It has been distinguished for the frequency ofits Revivals. A class never graduates without comi
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