Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . ing. These are a few specimens, out of the num-berless instances which might be given, of theunique and astounding effect of his parallels one must go to the ancient timesof Demosthenes, or to the Middle Ages with itsSt. Bernard. The man, whose voice thus sub-jugated his fellow-men for more than thirtyyears—who was followed at sixty-seven as atthirty-seven—who, with so much that was out-wardly uncouth and odd, hushed the frivolity ofLondon once and again, and melted the souls ofthe French philosophers in a half-known tongue 138 THOMAS CHALME
Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . ing. These are a few specimens, out of the num-berless instances which might be given, of theunique and astounding effect of his parallels one must go to the ancient timesof Demosthenes, or to the Middle Ages with itsSt. Bernard. The man, whose voice thus sub-jugated his fellow-men for more than thirtyyears—who was followed at sixty-seven as atthirty-seven—who, with so much that was out-wardly uncouth and odd, hushed the frivolity ofLondon once and again, and melted the souls ofthe French philosophers in a half-known tongue 138 THOMAS CHALMERS. —who was hailed with audible applause in asermon before the Royal Commissioner, andmade princes of the blood and senators andbishops start to their feet, and break intorounds of wildest acclamation—who fixed Haz-litt under the apple-tree for a day, and drewcompliments from Mackintosh, and the tears ofchildhood from Canning,—this man may fairlybe crowned, in our intellectual capital, as thegreatest pulpit orator of his XII. HOW TO ORGANIZE LARGE CITIES.
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