Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-31
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aOns Is cfteh amused, in travelling in the
Western States, % meet With 4 distinguished
! lawyer Of politician, perhaps judge or con-
gfossman, prOdnced aud no sham production
| eithefI from What WIS known in some dis
triot school At the East as merely tonguey
lad, or at best, college boy, endowed WITH
some little native brass, it may be, but fore
showing no greater distinction in the world
than forty-nine others in his class Of fifty.
A physician, who now stands confesSedly at
4 the head Of the faculty in one Of the largest
! cities Of fhe West went there some twenty
ysars ago, without friends, without even 3
| COLLEGE diploma 10 recommend him--merely
/ a tall. green Yankee, who had thoroughly y
read medicine, and could read men. BE, and
/ his friends, and his native New England, owe
/ his expansion and elevation to the formative
power of the West In the same city, where
Il Was our lot to preach half day ior
brother minister and eollege mate "a distin-
gnishsd .. D., by the way, whose distinction
/ had all been acquired after be came ont there
Ia answer to questions artlesslY asked re-
| specting the general habits Of the congrega-
| tiOn, as hearers Of the word, we are told the
story Of lawyer In his aoek, who was 50
very exacting, and had shch lofty standard
OF pulpit excellence, that he had become q
terror, not to i'eFil doefsn merely, but 70 all
who could not do extremely wen. And 50
quick was his perception Of any defect that
/ in nine cases out OF ten he could tell, Of
thought be could, bY the way in which the
prescher read the irst hymn, or chapter il
! the Bible, at the opening Of the service
\ whether he was ft % preach; and If not be,
] f-.,T nra.r, orrfnNr Nrn
and had oflen been kuown 10 show other less
equivocal signs Of disgust. Itwas impossible
alter hearing al this, not TO feel annoyed at
the thought ot preaching in such presence.
We bethought as Of David, with his five
smooth stones and sling, going to meets giant
whose spear was like "weaYers BEAM but
i could hardly be solaced with the hope that
! ike him. We possessed q missile that would
penetrate either bis bead or his heart.
We remembered to have once preached to
Daniel Webster, and found him an attentive
hearer; but then, while we could not ques-
ton bis inteneetHal equality with this "see-
/ ond Daniel come to Judgment it was remem-
bered that be Of Marshfeld was proverbial-
! " indulgent in his criticisms on ministers
| which thing, it was clear from the pastors
showing, was not the habit of this formid-
able parsonage. Several times during the
sermon, and in several different peWs, i'm
sqination saw the man; for neither bis name,
nativity nor place in church was told us. On
leaving the pulpit we were accosted BY a
young man. remembered IS a Students Mon
son Academy some ten years previous, when
we had the honor Of serving on the Board of
Trustees. To our utter suTpriseit afterwards
appeared that this was none other than that
same aGoliath Of Gafh" grown to this
stature from that Academy boy since he
came into the West. In another lOcslity--a
rising young eity-we found in almost every
body 8 mouth the name of certain individ-
uaI Of remarkably shreWd business tact, Of
large enterprise, and the owner of an i'm
menS landed estate, with any number of
tenants and employees at his control he had
built an eighty thousand dollar hotel in the
young city of his adoption, at which be
boarded. We, too, had taken lodgings at the
same house. Judge Of our astonishment,
when the dinner hour came, to find this west
ern nabo0at our elbow, the identical person
whom we had known in one OF the obscurest
towns Of Eastern Massachusetts,, himself an
obscure youngster, with no more promise
than scores Of others in that place, who in
continued obscurity,