Sunlight and shadow; . The baneful Upas-Tree — The Drunkards Careeron the Broad Road — Peroration — The Noblemans Speech and Ob-servations — Speech of an Agitator — Bruce the King of England — Battles of Greasy and Potters — Pass round the Hat. HEEIDAN KJSOWLES has been de-scribed as a shrewd, sharp-lookingold gentleman, who takes a text butremotely connected with his listen with great interest at speaker is apparently very argu-mentative, and nods his head at theconclusion of each sentence in a mostdecided manner, as if to intimate very con-siderably the best of the ar
Sunlight and shadow; . The baneful Upas-Tree — The Drunkards Careeron the Broad Road — Peroration — The Noblemans Speech and Ob-servations — Speech of an Agitator — Bruce the King of England — Battles of Greasy and Potters — Pass round the Hat. HEEIDAN KJSOWLES has been de-scribed as a shrewd, sharp-lookingold gentleman, who takes a text butremotely connected with his listen with great interest at speaker is apparently very argu-mentative, and nods his head at theconclusion of each sentence in a mostdecided manner, as if to intimate very con-siderably the best of the argument. Now this is allvery well for five minutes, or even ten; but lasting anhour — with no heads for you to remember — younaturally grow very weary. His sermons are bundlesof little bits of arguments, tied up together as a heapof old sticks, and just as dry. He was but a verymoderate preacher. How faithful a portrait of some of the preachers atthis day, let some of the sufferers testify. I have 421. 422 LOXa AND SHORT SERMOKS. occasionally heard from pulpits a string of common-places and bald truisms with no application. I haveheard sermons, dry, without one word of help orcomfort, without one particle of spiritual food to allaythe heart-hunger, with no suggestive thoughts; bar-ren of ideas, as a dead stick is barren of leaves; andI have felt if I heard no preaching but that, my lifewould become a dull, dreary monotony, never risingabove the plodding existence so utterly earthly. Ihave heard sermons from men entirely oblivious ofgrammar, who never studied the construction of asentence, who were only learned in Bible lore, whohad been taught in the school of Christ, that were asmarrow to my soul; for it was a presentation of thesimple gospel from one who had experienced the re-sults of its application. After all, no one can please everybody. Somerequire learning and polish, a classic finish, lofty,stately, majestic; others, again, fancy piquancy, pa-thos; oth
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