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down—tn recruit himself for the great occasion that had
brought him so crowded an auditory, think he called it !)
namely, the delivery of his sermon ! The casket containing
this most preciOus gem, was handed into the pulpit, other-
wise rostrum, by an elderly little wan, who followed him to
to the pulpit-door, and who, it was told me, was actually
kis own Father. He now opened the aforesaid casket,
or bible, at the site of his text, gracefully depnsi:ed his
white handkerchiell undetneath, and appeared to feel
the singing time •to be almost as long and tedious as the
young dramatic Oaten; doss the music between the acts
of a play. Singing being done, the curtain rose, or,
the text was named, due time being allowed for el-
deity ladies to wcithr how he would fred the subject :
during which suspense he looked round with a simpering
smile, that very oddly represented the cheerful christian.
At length, the ice of the sermon was broken ; and the
',reacher plunged into his subject at once, with a few tropes,
but whiCh he meant for eloquence. He now danced me
through all the seasons, the smiling spring. the laughing
?Almoner, the sober autumn, the frowning wit tei.; and Ate')
wade me positively tot n round, to • see yonder
hoary-
headed christian I' I saw stone such, on my honesty. It was
only the gentleman's rhetoric ; it was an animated apos-
trophe ! I waited patiently, however, hoping that he would
improve both himself and his subject. It was in vain. Tie
iwag continually aiming to be poetical without an original
idea, and rhetorical by confounding all the rules of that
nit ; and the sermon was concluded before the text was
touched upon ! He sat down, notwithstanding, amidst the
adtplatory breathings of eseryletnale; for, as he descended
from the pulpit, each evinced her anxiety to catch a look
or a smile frhin the heat man. More cartiages were of
him, than would have conveyed all the curates of the
(-history to a feast ; and, at last, the weatied preacher
swon
Ws way to the veary-room, where lie threw himself into the
ti:st chair. Ladies pressed round him even here; and, as
I passed by, 1 overheat d him commending the warmth of
his coat, sshich a lady• (I think he said) bad "lined for him
with the wadding of her pelisse," to protect him ft mu the
rigour of his native skies ! And sack too frequently are found,
according to an observer, the young ministers of our day.
Evangelicistn, alretely has it been remarked, is no ordinary
profession. Rises Owe up some hopeful champion of the
au,e ? ! d is! i ti,;tlsited as the popular minister of the
liii:es, the glory of the old and wonder of the young, he is
followed, day Piler day, and night after night, by crowds of
Loth sexes ; admired by mankind, and beloved by woman-
kind, while astonishment gapes at him, affection stoats on
him. He is in the broad-way to public preferment, and in
the sale-paib for private gratification.
(To be ealltimittl.)
Riffles, in his Life of Spencer, has the following very pertinent
shoe :dos en this subject. "1t %%44 %lit!' sincere pity," says he, that
Spencer saw any yountf I%linister descend from the holy
of his station, b. atteLtiOil, as sots as service was concluded, to
Toe oar:faces tj Fiwoili.s, who, had they really received the benefit
they proie,•cd, would have' she yru it in a very different way. Those
mho arc 4enustomed to attend the L'ethieS tit L4M4101:," SlibiOillM Iht
Ht.v. T. it " after the germon% of Popular Preachers, will enter
s:410 the tee as of this oli-elvdtinil. It trOfehr le well V. some.
h may comma, trout:tido take the hint it affords." Excellently
aniatketl

Sanndels, the old and fah hful servant of the Prances,
ales, who came with her to this country, and has beer
hyr cons,aut a!tetidant, died a few days ago. Iler fitlera!
k ylace on Thul bday at Greenwich, and in testimony of
tie tegard of her Royal Higttess, her own servant's and horses.
'Weft solely tmployed in conducting the ceremony.
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