Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-05-23
rpIrE ELOQUENCE.

W. 4, M, remember having met WIN pas
80 of Tho same length, SO full OF true feeling.
,brlliny pahos, and graphic power, as Inc iollow-
mo ev,Tac, from speech delivered BY MIR. a. b.
Ionps,reel Of Georgia, before The Methodist Con
ven,;on =, Louisville The reader is transported
involnniarily, TO the gloomy but sublime scene'
whore the sef-devoted pioneer of holy cause
falls beneath The weight Of his perous enterprise
The vas, West is filled with romantic incidents
Of these holy men, leaving behind them The COM
forts and security of civilization, and meeting
the dangers and sacrifices OF forest me- 10
their credit be il said, the Jealous Methoois's are
found the first among those who break Inc SUI
ness Of the Western wilds, and push on Inc Dies
sings OF civilization and religion.
Blu, will i, be believed that the orator. whose
eloauence is able TO arouse the deepest syhiPa-
,bi.s of the heart is also The author OF the "Geor-
gia Scenes" so Justly popular as record OF 'ne
richest, laughler.stirring humor? II furnishes
but another instance Of the versatility oil me 'lu-
man mind. Ii is, we think, Thomas hooo' '''e
prince OF testers, who is described as suhefihs
keen!y from pecuniary and physical causes anu
vel his published Jokes and conceiis seem never
n aao in spirit Lamar Blanchard, the author
OF The inimitabe "Mrs. Caudles Lectures Is
also said to have been severe sufferer from ma.
nv causes. In both instances, the natural Den
OF The mind had full sway, al intervals. But here'
in our own land We have striking instance OF
q man. who can, al one moment, dash OH win
his pen the most comic sketcheso OF passing SCENES
and, at the next, rise in religious assembly,
convoked for The most solemn and vital objects,
and chain, with his pathos and his eoquence' Inc
hearts OF listening crowd Such is the variety
Of feelings evoked by the peculiar excitement
of surrounding circumstances:
"No; we must part, and the r'he better
Lei us, with our new organization, try 10 gel BACK
~ primitive Me,hodism. | speak not OF its e1-
,srnals some of which never legitmately belong.
ed 10 il, but Of its inward graces. speak OF us
former zeal, which glowed with equal lerVor
amidst the miasm Of the lowland swamps and
the heallhful breezes OF the mountain, which LED
the Methodist preacher 10 seek the lost sheep, OF
the fold of Christ withersoever they wandered
sneak that Methodism that preached not only
an stated DAYS. and at stated times, but which
nreached al all times and in all places-in the
chanel the hut the Kitchen the grove, The wilder
ness-to fathers, mothers, husbands wives, pa
rents. children, masters, servants-whlch never
entered house without word for The Lord, and
never left ii without praying blessing upon II
which planted the standard OF the cross on Inc
SPOT which we occupy ere the elk and the buffalo
had left (which pushed on its labors, al times,
until exhausted nature sunk under them.
"When thus speak OF Methodism, let me not
ha undprstood asclaiming for our sect all The re-
lgion that is in the world. Far from it-there is
as pure religion in the other churches as in ours.
lam no sectarian. Ill possess one christian viz
inc il is love for all thai love and serve the Lord
Jesus Christ; but confess feel kindling emo
ton. allied 10 the moral sublime, when ! contem-
plate Methodism personifed in such men as our
Molly, whose funeral obsequies were performed
by himself whose dirge was sounded BY the win
Ter winds, whose winding sheet was the snow
drift and whose monument was the sturdy oak
Of The forest-iound by the woodsman, frozen on
his knees and buried in The attitude otprayer. VI
myself will not glory, ofmy church will not gio-
~. butofsuch as these might become fool in slo-
rying and all christians would pardon me, II not
ioin me. Yes were TO inscribe ON The tree, Inc
root of which was his last pillow, The christians
best monument, every Christian of every church
would cheerfully nscribe under il Amen and
amen. To this kind of Mehodism lei US get
back let il be the characteristic OF the Southern
church, and then, if they will, lei he Northern
church take all The rest"