Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-02
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PIT orator. Many have outshone him N tbe;,
loglc' the grandeur Of their conceptions. aAd
.ne sparkling beauty Of single sentences but
Y 'he power Of dsrting the Gospel direct into
she Conscience, hs eepsed them oil. with
full and beaming -coAatenanee. and tbe frsnL
ana % easy pQrt which ,esIpeliah leose-znxisfs
tns symbol y Of seaaat purpose and ifrie6dly Ill
saranee-.e sombiped voice bf rich I oo1s pas.
would equally thrill Over Morefslds il musical
thunder, Or whisper its terribiA secret 4 aydyy
private ear and to this gaihlyss6tisil, improved.
BY c0hseientieas practics IN sn5s;act xitd .his.
earnest fatufs;.afl cdfiod l M 4 the actad1I
sermon '.and ~ its 4 Oaipie gp5sassfs,s sns. q
blcd the eye to antioipaa sapid ptttarancce,. !,
and helped the memory u al,rvsp lie a sb..l.
pable ideas. NVrn1n1 = haIda ~ % With 4
more .s .success,.t d. D6f lnpsrsons-.
tor Ills 4 lEsFE, bark r. could copjure up
'fpethsemane witlf-its laIteribg moon, and awake
again theery Of horto) )stsszsa innocence and
an apsstrophe to Pstsr on THE Holy Mount,
would lightup aaother Tabor, and crown it in
glory from thg opening fsyen. His thoughts
were Possessions, and his FEELINGS were transfor-
matiQiA; and if he,sapEe because he felt, his
hearers understood fsbecause they saw. They
We're not0nly enthusiastic amateurs, like Gar
rick, who ran'to weepand tremble at bis bursts
of passion, but even the colder critics of the
Walpole school were surprised into momentary
sympathy and reluctant ::wonder. Lord Ches-
terfeld was listening in Lady Huntington's pew,
when Whtefeld was comparing the sinner to a
blind beggar on dangerous road. His little
bg gets away from him, skrting the edge of a
hgecipice, and he is left toexplore the path with
IN iron shod staff. On the very verge of the
clihl this blind guide slips through his fingers,
and pSvway down the abyss. All uncon-
scio owner stoops down to regain it, and
| st Forward" Good Godl he is gone :"
| So Chesterfield, who had been watching
with eathlcss alarm the blind mans move
ments, and who jumped from his seat to- save
the cataatrophe. But the glory of Whitefeld's
prca hing was heart-kindlng and heart-melting
goslG ii. But for this, all his bold strokes and
4 brilliant surprises might have been no better
than The rhetorical triumphs of Kirwin and
other pulpit dramatists. He was an orator,
but he only sought to be an evangelist. Likea
Volcano where gold and gems may be darted
forth rs wei as common things, but where gold
and noulten granite dow alike in fiery fusion
bright thoughts and splendid images might oe
projected from its flaming pulpit, but all were
merged in the stream which bore along the Cos
pei and himself in blended fervor Indeed, so
simple was his nature, that glory to God and
good will to man having filed 1t there was room
for little more.
Having no church to found, no family to en-
rich, and no memory to immortaize, he was the
mere ambassador of God and inspired with
its genial piteous sprit--so full of heaven rec
oneiledNpnd humanity restored-hc soon found
himself living gospel Radient with its be-
nignity rand trembling with its tenderness, by
F" soH Of spiritual induction vast audience
would speedily be drought into frame of mind
the transfusihg Of his own and the white
farrgws on their sooty faces told that Kings
d colliers were weeping, or the quivering of
Rstrch's plume bespoke its elegant wearers
ion. And coming to his work, direct from
conn Runion with his Maker, and in all the
strys4 th of accrpted prayer, there was an ele-
v2lion in his mind which often paralyzed hostil-
d. pd self possession which only made i'm,
amid nproar and fury, the more sublime With
an electric bolt he would bring the jester in his
FOOLS cap from his perch on the tree, or galvan-
ize the brickbat from the skulking miscreant's
grasp, or sweep down in crouohing submission
and shanle-taced silence the whole Bartholomew
Fair; whilst a revealing fash Of sententious
) doctrine or vivfed Scripture, would disclose to
laye-struck hundreds the forgotten varieties Of
another world, or the unsupported arena of their
inner man. II came to break your head, but,
through yog, God has broken my heart,' was
Z sortof confession with which he was familiar /;
aaid V see Vie deaf old gentle woman, who used
! to autter impracatons at him as he passed along
Y the street, claHAering up the pulpit stairs to
I tcatcb his angel words, was sort of spectacle
2 VIZ b the7 triu4 phant Gospel often witnessed
Y i6V da1lIusa when it is known that biz
9 void o. kd by 10000, and that rang
I ing aIH as we'll as America, he would
y often y. - on working day, and thai
6 he has me week, as many as n thou
| sand Il persons awakened by his ser
% M ate can bo formed Of the re
v Try, some idea may be suggest
|! Cd o. rant and singular effectiveness
l. ADh yN ON S1sssaD-DREss.-I would desire tn
fair sex to consider how impossible IL is for ther
q To add ANYTHING that can be ornamental TO wha