Scrope, or, The lost library : a novel of New York and Hartford . of them ona fly-leaf of the hymn-book. Twoshall be given here. Perhaps theymay be the beginning of a wholly Scrape i or, The Lost Library. 135 new school of pulpit gesture and ex-pression — who knows ? Toomstonis as good a name as Delsarte, anyday. The first of these (see Fig. 1)illustrated a striking comparison used\)j the doctor in the course of his ap-peal for the Christian life. He wasenlarging upon the trifling and tran-sitory nature of this life, and theuncertainty and blindness in whichwe poor human beings flit as it were
Scrope, or, The lost library : a novel of New York and Hartford . of them ona fly-leaf of the hymn-book. Twoshall be given here. Perhaps theymay be the beginning of a wholly Scrape i or, The Lost Library. 135 new school of pulpit gesture and ex-pression — who knows ? Toomstonis as good a name as Delsarte, anyday. The first of these (see Fig. 1)illustrated a striking comparison used\)j the doctor in the course of his ap-peal for the Christian life. He wasenlarging upon the trifling and tran-sitory nature of this life, and theuncertainty and blindness in whichwe poor human beings flit as it wereto and fro in dark and purposelesswajS ; and wound up a period withthe words, We glide vainly hitherand thither, like little fishes withinthe Stream of Time. At these words,holding forth his large and bony handsin the very fish-like attitude of Fig. 1,he brandished them back and forthfrom the shoulder, past each other,with an indescribable furious angu-larity, which the cut cannot show atall, but even more wonderfully op-posed to the flexible, swift ease of a. same time pictured forth with thefollowing noble manual diagram (seeFig. 2), but dancing the two fingersthus daintily conjoined up and downat arms end, before the audience, in amanner that greatly strengthened theimpression, and which, as before, thecut, most unfortunately, cannot give. Fig. 1. Little Fishes. fishs movements, than were the rug-ged outlines of the hands themselves,to the subtle, sinuous grace of a fishsform. Again, in setting forth, by wayof contrast to this vain and unprofit-able activity, the steady progress ofthe consistent Christian, from onegrade of spiritual attainment to an-other, he enforced the asseition of thefinal splendor of the believers glory,at the end of the laborious ascent, inthe words until at last he attainsunto the stature of perfect upright-ness, which uprightness he at the
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