The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-07-19
EVANSVILLE ND SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1856
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THE REV. C. H. STURGEON

The ministry Of the Rev. c. II. Spurgeon. :
BAPTIST clergy man, has produced an extraortii
lnary sensation In~tte London religious world
tCrowds walton the preaching of this STRIPPING
The was not twenty years ola when he first
Established his iame-including in their
thronged ranks, individuals high in intellect
lstation, and influence. Audiences nufnbering
ttaeet0e thousand persons have been gathered to
thear him. Exeter Hall will not contain the
multitude who seek to catch the sound of his
voice.
The power to sway his fellows to issues of
behavior and of belief other than those to
which their native propensities would lead is
one OF the noblest in its exercise and awfulest
IN its responsibilities with which man can be
gifted. In the religious sphere of life especial
lly, is its rightfal employment boon to the
SUBJECTS of Its use. To excite emotions that
bear their truitage in a new creed, and in a
change OF conduct from evil acts to good deeds
IRON SIN that drags sad succession of sor-
row IN its train, TO holiness that wins the
Suerdun OF perpetual peace-this truly is work
worthy OF our manhood. But who is compe- |
tent to its discharge? Where do we find that |
catholic sympathy of feeling that must fire |
the heart! Where is the mind, aware to ali /
the influences that flow in perpetual unison
INTO that great purpose out Of all the agencies
Of Gods universe? Where is the lofty sD;rit
that can arise above the clogs of predudiced
cenyentionalism, with the free air of truth.
discerning the unity Uf mans happiness, Wi |,
the laws of his being in all their moral and
physical relations, and seeking, not by ignor-
ing, abrogating, or restricting his natural in
stlncts, but by guiding them in loving subjec- ,
ton to the needs OF ali his nature, to establish d
his 1e-created soul III permanent and complete
bliss?
Sngularly endowed as is the remarkable
young man whose name heads this article and
whose wonderful career has attracted our no
tice-htted as he is by the possession of a
magnetic power of exciting and persuading
masses OF Inen-even he has SO much OF the
alloy of self and spiritual conceit, as almost to
the worth of his earnestness and
genius. ....7.- +,
He is rated by his adherents above Fox. or 10
Wesley, or Whitfield. Converts and baptisms
are frequent and numerous. His astonishing
success has provoked, of course, the sharp !.
criticisms of those whose old fashioned WAYS {
he has encountered. and we all know that
when the pen is dipped in evangelical aspertY, :
all the gFossness OF political partizanship, or ii
the harsh indecencies of low bred vulgarity. 50
are eclipsed by the pious disputants. But in
he face of all opposition he asadvanced from
1ne triumph to another, until he has aroused IN
IN excitement but rarely paralleled even in
he history of religious enthusiasm These
phenomena appear inexplicable. Without
,duction, without social position, without
sraces of person or Of style, lacking all the
usual requisites of popularity, he has won
place among the leaders of the
seople. 3- 10