The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . hings maintainedfor its upbuilding! Perhaps no one but the architect himself. Therehave been all the secret struggles, the analyzings, the balancings;all the doubts, the fears, the forebodings; all the hopes, the aspirations,the enthusiasms; all the disciphnings, the developings, the matur-ings ; all the fittings, the harmoniziugs, the finishings—all, all to bemaintained for years and years, unceasingly, till, at last, the chara
The American pulpit : sketches, biographical and descriptive, of living American preachers, and of the religious movements and distinctive ideas which they represent . hings maintainedfor its upbuilding! Perhaps no one but the architect himself. Therehave been all the secret struggles, the analyzings, the balancings;all the doubts, the fears, the forebodings; all the hopes, the aspirations,the enthusiasms; all the disciphnings, the developings, the matur-ings ; all the fittings, the harmoniziugs, the finishings—all, all to bemaintained for years and years, unceasingly, till, at last, the charac-ter stands revealed in its architectural proportions, beautiful, complete, • a house not made with hands, which shall be eternal itthe heavens! I would express him sunple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge. And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look. And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture!—Is it like ? THE
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