The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . nd he will findthere some noble pioneers, hastening with the bread of life to thestarving inhabitants, scattering manna in the wilderness untoeternal life. Those who rise early and toil late, to hoard up gold with which 122 THE PIONEEK PREACHEE. to build a house, and live in it and die, with no breath from grate-ful hearts to waft them up to heaven; those who struggle and ma-noeuvTe and electioneer, sacrificing principle and pea
The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . nd he will findthere some noble pioneers, hastening with the bread of life to thestarving inhabitants, scattering manna in the wilderness untoeternal life. Those who rise early and toil late, to hoard up gold with which 122 THE PIONEEK PREACHEE. to build a house, and live in it and die, with no breath from grate-ful hearts to waft them up to heaven; those who struggle and ma-noeuvTe and electioneer, sacrificing principle and peace to winearthly power, which they use for their own exaltation—but never tohft up the people they have used; those who loll in lazy luxury, con-suming the han-ests their soft hands have neither sown nor reaped ;well may they, unsatisfied, restless, craving, ennuyed, envy the hard-ship, the poverty, the toil, the lowliness, and the health, the peace,the exhilaration, the joyful memories, the heavenly hopes of the self-sacrificing, man-loving, God-fearing Methodist Preacher. The next sketch will contam a description of the daily life of thePioneer Preacher. ^J. A
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