of the preacher those sermons are often the best which come heart and are in strict accordance with the word of god plain and simple addresses such as any however plain and simple may comprehend when mr wishes to lay particular stress on any truth or expression he usually his for example � it is the rev our joy my brethren that christ has death � that he has death in repeating the closing sentence of the lord s prayer he lays the emphasis ah the article the for thine is the the power and the glory for ever and ever amen his knowledge of the is extensive and minute and the accuracy and facility with which he such passages as tend to illustrate his positions prove that the of his memory any more the powers of his mind has not been affected by the vast of years which have passed over his head the venerable gentleman s manner in th pulpit will i am sure be in some measure anticipated thing like could not be expected in one of his add bodily he on the cushion of the pulpit when he begins his discourse and in that position till he has brought it to a close he raises his right hand six or seven inches firom the cushion but his elbow all the while rests on it o the rev he usually the pocket bible he uses in the pulpit in both hands he scarcely ever lays it down entirely he his eye on a part of the area of the church a few yards fix in the pulpit and never not even for a moment it until he has finished his sermon his head and body remain all the while as motionless as if he did not possess the power of moving either mr s so r as i am aware is limited to the occasional publication of a detached discourse and even on this small scale nothing has issued fi om the press under his own for many years past sermons by the reverend gentleman taken down in short hand when in the course of delivery have appeared of late in those devoted to reports of pulpit mr s congregation is exceedingly respectable the are almost exclusively occupied by persons in circumstances several aristocratic families fix m the west end are to be seen in his church every tuesday morning the rev the reverend gentleman has preached from the same pulpit for the long period of sixty two years i question if there be another such instance on record what repeated changes in the aspect of the congregation must he not have witnessed in the course of that long period i how affecting the thought that all those � the supposition is at least exceedingly probable � who heard the first sermon he preached there are now in the eternal world of his personal appearance little remains to be said his face has more than the usual breadth in it while its the form he is much about the average height made with high round shoulders as mr is only in st mary s i should suppose his income from that source does not exceed three hundred pounds per if indeed it be as much chapter v the � of the � the her dr t ie h h the of christ s chapel st john s wood has acquired considerate distinction as a preacher within the last few years when one of the ministers c baker street chapel which he quitted two or three years ago he was greatly run after especially by the female sex whenever he preached the chapel was in eveiy part his in the new sphere of his are still attended by a numerous and respectable audience though his present chapel being in a less neighbourhood his congregation is not so large as that which he was in the habit of addressing in baker street chapel whether it be that i have heard the reverend gentleman rev under i cannot say but i must confess that i am unable to discover any thing either in his matter or manner as a preacher which would lead me to him the high rank in this respect which is claimed for him by his more ardent admirers but let me on the other hand guard any one running away with the impression that i think poorly of mr talents as a minister of the gospel so far from this i look upon him as above though not reaching that degree of excellence which some others � and in justice to the reverend gentleman let me add pious and intelligent persons � to him his views of divine truth are highly and his of those views are always clear if not on all forcible i know of few ministers in the metropolis whether in or out of the establishment whose preaching i would deem more calculated to instruct the mind in the truth as it is in what has struck me as chiefly wanting in his pulpit is that sort of preaching which is most likely to arouse the the and detect and expose the r e fu in which the or merely christian is in the habit of if one his to an undue and as to assume that a assemblage of persons such as mr is in the habit of addressing from sabbath to sabbath were all christians in deed as well as in name � then i should say that they could hardly have a more suitable minister but knowing as every one who has ever bestowed a thought on human nature as constituted since the i must know that a very large proportion of every congregation are in nature s bondage and nature s blindness knowing this i hold it to be an essential part lam not sure whether it be not the essential part of every christian minister s duty to 