The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-10-10
WHOLE NO. 1877.

lingering many weeks with every effort in bis
oehali that medical skill and friendship and bro
therhood could devise, he yielded to the fate which
awaits all of us
Bishop Bascom and Summerfeld were entirely
different In their oratory. The one was the storm,
the other the sunshine. The delicate and fragile
form Of Summerfeld contrasted strongly with the
athletic and powerfully developed frame of Ba..
com, and 80 was it with their eloquence
Bishop Bascom will be a great loss to his
church. For, however wide may be the opinions
expressed as TO the position he took with the
church South all agree that he was a pulpit ora
tor Of great gifts Bishop Bascom's style as a
writer was not in good taste he was too fond Of
high-fown and far-fetched metaphors, and he was
never content unless he was using adectives in
the superative degree-his praise or his censure
was always IN extremes, and ne expressed himself
in JODO narentbatiGa) and evolved soaterrns oftAr
hard 60 the comprehension This same fault,
though in less degree, exhibited itself in his or
atory His eloquence was sometimes turgid and
forced, and he seemed determined to lash himself
and his audience into excitement but still he was
brilliant, pointed, full Of knowledge and iusira-
ton and fearful in the force and directness of his
defamation His fuency was great though the
listener could not escape the conviction that much
of his sermon was studiOusly prepared and COM
mitted 20 memory.
When a boy, remember Bishop Bascoms per-
soual beauty re WAS tall, well set, with care.
less ease of manner, in fact dashed with good
deal of the Kentucky don't.care, which certainly
had no clerical primness in it, but which was ~
certainly very taking. lie was staying then at
the house of MIR Kelso, leading Methodist in
Old Town, and it was his wont to walk the pave
ment very much in apparent abstraction. | could
not but think there was little harmless con-
bon ha, has . Ia
halt to gaze at the distinguished preacher
He drew crowds as did Summerfeld, though il
was generally Summerfeld who drew the largest
crowd, particularly of ladies. MIR. Bascom never
was ladies' man, which so many preachers are
as was Symmetrical. Bascom's published volume
Of sermofs shows much greater fntsffectuai Iorce
than Summerfeld's, but Summerfeld's " Sermons
aud Sketches of Sermons y il must be remem bered.
we're ueysg Sfitten for publication. and were pub,
lshed after his death they, however, offend good
taste less than Bascom's
Bishop Bascom has fulfilled his mission nobly
In the volume Of his sermons, published about a
year since, he mentioned that he had other manu-
script sermons that he might or might not give to
| the public, according to circumstances IL is to
be hoped that his executors will have no doubt on
the subject; and it is to be further hoped that
unto some one worthy of the task who will make
il labor of love- his manuscript and letters may
be conhded, so that a truthful and appreciatve
memoir Of this distinguished Methodist orator
may be given to the world. II.
DIVORCE IN CONNECTIcUT-A clerical gentle
man of Hartford attended the House Of Repre-
sentatives last spring to read prayers, and being
politely requested TO remain seated near the
Speaker during the debate, he found himself the
spectator of an Unmarrymg process, so alien to his
own vocation, and so characteristic of the Legis-
lature of Connecticut that the result was the fol-
lowing
IMPROMPTU
Addressed by priest 10 the Legislature Of Connecticut
- "ror cutting all connexions famed
| Connecf-i-cuf Is fairly named!
| twain connect In enc but you
| Cut those whom connect In two
Each Legislature seems TO say
| What you ooNSEor-roUr away Culendar