The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1844-03-30

X OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dIsu dkc phllo"
sophe,, bul Jesus Chnsi ike q Coy
! despair Of giving you an, idea of he
effect produced b, Ih,s shor sentence, unless
you could perfectly conceive the whole
manner of The man, as we'll ~ the peculiar
crisis in The discourse. Never belor. d'd |
understand what Demos henes
meant by lafing such Stress On delivery.
You are To bring before you Tho venerable
figure of the preacher; his blindness con-
SANDY calling 10 your recollection Old Ito
mer, Ossier and Milton, aud associa'lng
wMh his performance The melancholy grand
eur of their geniuses, you are 10 Imagine
that you hear his slow, solemn, well.arcen.
ted aEnuncia,ion, and hi vo,ce ol affecting
trembling melody; Won are to remember The
pitch Of passion and enthusiasm 10 which
the congrega' ion were raised; and the few
moments Of porten'ous. death.,ke slenre,
which regned throughout the house; the
preacher removing his white handkerchief
from his aged face. (even We, wei from the
recent torrent Of his tears.) and slowly
stretching forth his palsied hand which held
it, begins he sen,ence,--"SucraIes died like
a phl'osopher"--,hen. pausiGg, raising his
other, with warmth and energy, t~hs breas''
lifting his ".igh,less pals" to heaven, aud
pouring his whole soul inlo his tremulous
voice--'.but Jesus Chrlst-like God"
If he had been indeed and in truth at
angel of light, The cfiec, could scarcely have
been more divine. Whatever ! had beer
able to conceive OF The sublimi'y Of Mass'lo,
Of the force OF Bnerdalone, had fallen ia
short Of The power which l felt from IN
delivery of this SIMPLE sentence.
II this description give You the impression
that this Incompatible minister had an,
thing of shallow theatrical trick in hI. man
ne,, it does HIM great injustice. hav'
never seen in anv orator such union @
simplicity and majesty. He has not jes
iure, an a,lIluJe, or an accer,, 10 which h
does no, seem forced b, 'he sentiment HI
is expressing. His mind is to" serious. 'o
earnest, too sD',ci,ous, and al the same Time
too dignlfed, to stop to artfirc.
Although as far removed from os'enfa'i"r
las II man can be, yet II Is clear, from me
s,rain, thu STYLE and substance of his
thoughts, that he is moi only p"l'e scholar
bu' man OF profound crItlIon! | wa.
-
forcihlv struck with a short yet heauntn
char cter which he drew of your learned
ant able couniryman, Sir Robert BoJle: ht
spike Of him as if .hls noble mind had. ever
before death dives,ed itself Of all Influence
from his fraiI tabernacle of flesh" and llet
him, in his peculiarly empha &c and 'mpres
sive manner, a .'pure in ei'gence; The lns
between men and angels"
This man has been before my lmaglnat'or
almost ever since. A thousand times, as
rode along. dropped the reins of my birdie
sreched forth my hands, and ir'ed 10 IN
late his quotation from Rousseau; a thou
sand times abandoned the attempt IN des
pair, and fell persuaded that his pecuIla'
manner and power arose from an energy o
soul which nature could not give, but whIc'
no being could Justly copy A. recall, a
this moment several of bis awiullv sh'k'n.
attitudes, the chilling tide ~'h which ~,
blood begins 10 pour along my arteries, re
minds me Of The emotions produced by M
first sight Of Gray's introductory picture @
his Bard