Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-31
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The Late Rev. Mr. Cooltsnan.
The Washington IneIligencer contains an elo-
queht notice of the late Mr. Cookman, one of the
passengers of the Pr sdent, from which we make
extracts.
The dead are evcrywhe,e
The mountain side, the sea, The woods profound
All the wide earth-the fertile and the fair
Is one vast battle-ground!
1t was beutiful Sabbath, toward the close Of
February last when, with many others, repaired
TO the Hall OF Representatives to listen to the Fare
well Sermon OF the eloquent Goodman. All who
were present will recoect his last impressive words
--"Perhaps," he said, at is the last time my be
loved hearers, that shall address you, or that
we shall ever meet again upon earth. go to my
native land receive the blessings Of aged father,
and to drop upon the grave Of sainted mo
ther." There was something prophetic, solemn,
and deeply affecting in the tones and manner of the
preacher. Small in stature and slender in body, he
stood like the image Of st. Paul before Felix. All
who had known him, who had often listened
with rapt attention to the eloquence which gushed
from his lips, touched as with living coal from
the altar where moved no tears, and seemed TO feel
as if they taking in reality last farewell of
one who had given new ardor to their piety, and
thrown an additional interest into the services of the
Sanctuary.
| The whole scene was in no ordinary degree
! grand, inn osing, and affecting. The magnificent
Hall, fit temple for the worship Of the living God
the crowd that had assembled to hear the last SER
mon of the Minister whose cloquence they so much
admired, with their eyes fixed upon the counte-
nance glowing with feeling, and listening with the
prooundest attention to the lessons Of piety he in
culcaed the noble head Of exPresident Adams
Just below him; the attitude of the preacher, and
the solemn and prophetic farewell ho uttered, all
consped to excite feelings Of the deepest sole mnity
and of the most intense interest.
Yet who of all that crowd of admring auditors be-
lieved for moment that in few short weeks he
who then stood before them, in the impressive dig.
nifty of apostle, and with the appearance of one
inspired of Heaven, would be buried in one Of the
clark, unfahomad caves of the ocean, there to
pose ill the last trumpet shall call him before the
throne of the great Being whose cause he loved,
and 10 whose service be had long devoted all the
energies Of a superior intellect!
Mr.. Goodman was one of the most eloquent pull
pit orators in this country. Many were, perhaps
his supelors in polish and elegance Of style, ex
tent of requirements, and depth of research, bu
none surpassed him in the power which belongs t'
The orator of rousing the feelings and passions o
the hearer, in the felicity and appropriateness of Il
ustra,ion, the splendor of his rhetorical figures an.
the occasional bursts of impassioned eoquence.
His ordinary tones were low, but distinct; it
only when the feeling or sentiment required it
that he became vehement and loud, and rolled OF
in voice of thunder. As preacher he was very
popular wherever he was stationed; and, like ChSl
mers and Irwin, always drew after him large con
gregatiors, and those whom he did not convert h
never failed to charm, delight, and edhy. He wa
beloved aud admired by all who knew him, both il
the pulpit and the social circle. His manner wa
bland, unassumng and attractive and his piety fre
; from that ausery and asceticism which character
ize some who make divinity their profession. Sucl
was the lamented Goodman as u minister of Co
and pulpit orator. He sleeps the long sleep o
death in quietude and peace, amid the deep darl
; waves of the botomless ocean-no longer TO mourn
over the vices or 10 weep for the miseries of man
kind. No man could have been better prepared t.
take the sudden and awful plunge into etern,
that he did TO him il was but transition from
world of sin and woe to one of eternal purity ant
happiness.