. Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, and sometime Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. umbent cynically discouraging the enthusiasm of ayoung curate ; Ahab objecting to consult Micaiah is like a man whosuspects he has a mortal disease, but will not follow the doctors Behold, I thought, is illustrated by the craving for a moreimposing Church authority, or a brilliant philosophical theory, or bypreference of a scientific lecture to a sermon ; or Solomons cosmo-politanism in religion by the unbalanced eagerness to be in sympa
. Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, and sometime Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. umbent cynically discouraging the enthusiasm of ayoung curate ; Ahab objecting to consult Micaiah is like a man whosuspects he has a mortal disease, but will not follow the doctors Behold, I thought, is illustrated by the craving for a moreimposing Church authority, or a brilliant philosophical theory, or bypreference of a scientific lecture to a sermon ; or Solomons cosmo-politanism in religion by the unbalanced eagerness to be in sympathywith other creeds, etc. ; or How shall we sing the Lords song ?suggests the anomalousness of making sacred music the amusementof an infidel audience. There surely never was a preacher who, in Idealing with the past, had his eyes more thoroughly and practically! > A writer in the Saturday Review light is never August 24, 1889, expressed the ^ Sylva [see. Letters and same feeling about Liddon ; he said Memoir of W. Bright, , p. that in his sermons the whole argu- Ixxvi.], xxxv. pp. is steeped in emotion. The I. XJi^^M. //SSS/ aY/y:*-?2.: Dr. Bright on the Seri7ions at St. Pauls. 305 open to the present, who felt more intensely the solidarity between (human nature in modern England and human nature in the daysbefore the Incarnation. What made Liddon so vitalismg a preacher ?What but his supreme devotion to a Christ alive for evermore ? In the Guardian for July 24, 1889, there is a masterlyestimate of the points of excellence in Liddons sermons—of his characteristic ways of thinking and working, whichwere some of the contributory causes of his remarkableinfluence. It is, unfortunately, too long to be quoted herein full; the following passages give its chief points :— I. It is often said that there is something very French in Dr. Liddons preaching ; and, apart from certain superficial traits which may commonly suggest the criticism, there is an impo
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