body � and you saw the soul so clearly that you forgot the it wore he began his sermon simply announced the theme spoke of its importance glanced over the surface for a moment � then out his plan as the farmer out his field which he is to plough up inch by inch he began simply calmly and rose higher and higher as he went on each thought deeper and nobler than the last his conscience and his faith went into the audience till he held them breathless lifted out of their common consciousness � till they forgot their own forgot the preacher soul and body and thought only of his thought felt only his feeling there was never such preaching in boston never prayers his word sunk into men as the sun into the ground in summer to send up grass and flowers did he speak of sin the youth saw its with creeping hate � of the dignity of human nature you longed to be such a man � of of his goodness his love you wondered you could ever doubt or fear it was our good fortune in earlier years to hear him often in his noblest efforts often too on the same day have we listened to the eloquence of another good minister now also immortal a man of rare piety and singular power in the pulpit � we mean the younger ware more sentimental than more native with an intellect less and a range of subjects by no means so broad he yet spoke to the native soul of man with a sweet persuasion rarely equalled ware told you more of heaven � more of earth that you might make it heaven here it was his conscience and his trust in god that gave him power what strength there is in what force in truth what magic in religion that voice so and feeble a woman s word � it was heard above the roar of the street and the clatter of it went beyond the it passed over the din of the atlantic waves and became a winning and familiar no iv william sound m our mother land that hand so thin and it seemed a might shine through � it held a which no of our time � the power of justice of all faith that feeble form tiiat man with body than a girl s � he had an influence which no man that speaks the tongue now equals he spoke not to men as members of a party or a or tribe or nation but to the universal nature of man and that something that doth live in our embers answered to his call he became conscious of his power it could not be wise when his word thus came echoed back from the heights and depths of society but this only made him yet more humble a name in both gave him no pleasure but as a means of and of power but made him more zealous and more powerful to tions he put aside without reading and abuse had small effect on did proud men scorn his humanity and base men affect to pity � it was only the pity which he returned yet when a letter from a poor man in england came to thank him for his words of lofty cheer he could well say this is honor when a nursery man forgot his plants and his customers to express an interest in hun or a retired family was moved by his presence then he could say this is better than a thousand times forgive if that made him proud we remember well his lecture on the elevation of the laboring classes and the with which it was received by some that heard it at the tune and we shall not soon forget the feelings it brought to our heart when one day in a little town in a valley we saw in the shop of an who was also the a copy of that lecture in the german tongue it was printed at that place and was the second edition the word which some sneered at here was gone to the to comfort the poor under the shadow of the we know that men sneer at the pulpit it a low and no seat of power we know why they sneer and lame them not but if there is a man in the pulpit with a man s mind heart soul the pulpit is no mean place it shall go hard if his power is not felt in boston there are well nigh of out of these were there like dr fifty more in new york and yet another fifty in the of philadelphia let them be of all ways of thinking � catholic or � only let them love god as and man as well only let love and as well as he and labor with as much earnestness to reform society church and state what cities should we have what churches what a society what a state would there be the the tiie ignorance among the people the � the sheer and utter lust of gain now takes of the most influential men of the nation oh no � there would have been no of for a new slave garden no war against no holy alliance in america between and to secure the of our sister republic there would not be three of slaves in the united states and a slave on the throne of the nation � for t is a throne we speak of and tiie people only subjects of a base aristocracy no longer citizens did we speak of fifty in boston � were there only ten they would make this city as we think too good to hope for but there are not ten such men � nay there are not but we will not count them are still 