The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . ll that God has sanctioned. He goeth about the an-cient bulwarks which God has established, and telleth the towerswith humble loyalty and love. He is a man among men, but achild towards Jehovah. Such was Ezra, the ancient was Paul. Such was Luther; he lifted not his axe evenagainst Romanism until God taught him that it was a Upas^ andthen he dealt his blows imtil Europe startled at the echo. 6. Every soul that love
The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . ll that God has sanctioned. He goeth about the an-cient bulwarks which God has established, and telleth the towerswith humble loyalty and love. He is a man among men, but achild towards Jehovah. Such was Ezra, the ancient was Paul. Such was Luther; he lifted not his axe evenagainst Romanism until God taught him that it was a Upas^ andthen he dealt his blows imtil Europe startled at the echo. 6. Every soul that loves God, and pities dying humanity, is calledto the work of reform. The word reformer should be synonymouswith Christian the world over. And next to faith in God and the 350 THEODORE LEDYAED CUTLER. cross, should be our faith in truth. The whole truth unconcealedand uncompromising. The truth as it is in Jesus. The truth asPaul preached it, and as stout martyrs have bled for it. It is likethe sea. The mists of error may obscure it for a time—nights otprejudice may settle down on it, but there it is, still beating on withvictorious pulse, and waiting for the X^r C€>^ SAMUEL HANSON COX. Upon earth there is not his like. Samuel Hanson Cox was bom August 25tli, 1793. His father,James Cox, descended from the first settlers of Talbot county, Mary-land, was born in Dover, Kent county, Delaware, December 28,1766, and died in the city of Philadelphia, January 4, 1801, at theearly age of thirty-four years. His mother, a native of Philadelphia,still lives in that city, in the eighty-eighth year of her age. Theywere members of the Society of Friends; were married February 13,1*791; removed from Philadelphia March 23, 1*792, to Rahway,New Jersey, where, at Leesville, as now called, Samuel H. Cox wasborn. His father at that time was extensively engaged in mercan-tile pursuits in Pearl-street, New York, of the firm of Cox, White-head & Co. He was a man of energy, uprightness, and co
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