Salad for the solitary and the social: . collectanea of literary cu-riosities of DIsraeli an inexhaustible resource of intellectualpleasure ? If, a-wearj and toil-worn, we turn from the din andturmoil of the world, what can be devised better suited to be-guile our cares into peace ; and if we can excuse their prolixity,are there not also Montaigne, and Burton ; seed-books for cen-turies of later writers and rife as ever with curious and saera-cious facts and fancies. Then, again, we do not forget theessayists and novelists, Irving, Dickens, and Bulwer ; and thepriesthood of song, from Shakespe
Salad for the solitary and the social: . collectanea of literary cu-riosities of DIsraeli an inexhaustible resource of intellectualpleasure ? If, a-wearj and toil-worn, we turn from the din andturmoil of the world, what can be devised better suited to be-guile our cares into peace ; and if we can excuse their prolixity,are there not also Montaigne, and Burton ; seed-books for cen-turies of later writers and rife as ever with curious and saera-cious facts and fancies. Then, again, we do not forget theessayists and novelists, Irving, Dickens, and Bulwer ; and thepriesthood of song, from Shakespeare to Tennyson and Long-fellow. Yes, we subscribe to the sentiment of the poet wherehe sings: Oil, sweet twill be—or hope would so believe,When close round life its fading tints of eveTo turn again, our earlier volumes love them then, because weve loved before,And inly bless the waning hour that bringsA will to lean once more on simple this be weakness, welcome lifes decline,If this be second childhood, be it PULPIT PECULIAEITIES. The odor of sanctity which attaches to the olHce of theChristian ministry has ever claimed and received the deferenceof mankind. The ancient seers, prophets, and patriarchs whowere commissioned to make known the will of the Supreme,under the impulse of a direct inspiration, were regarded assupernaturally endowed, and their utterances deemed commission divinely authorized and invested with such moralgrandeur, demands a corresponding elevation of character—intellectual, moral, and religious—in those who assume itsfunctions ; and the world naturally looks for these accessories. A parson, writes George Herbert^ is the deputy of25 386 PULPIT PECULIARITIES. Christ for the reducing of man to the obedience of God. Hefurther quaintly adds: His apparel is plain, but reverend, andclean without spots or dust; the purity of his mind breakingout and dilating itself, even to his body, clothes, and habi-tation. This remark o
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