The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-06
LIT Err A n u r e.
PULPIT PUNaENcIEs. With Table of Contentss
Carleton: New York. Philadelphia: Ashmead

s Carlobon: New York. Phliadelphia: Ashmead
~ Evans. ---~- ~
The work before US is as curious production
as we have seen. It is vast compilation
oil the pith of numerous setm ons, from some
hand unnamed. 1t has no preface, but com.
mences at once with series of the short ex'
tracts. There is good deal of homely truth
contained in them, and the cases are put in a
quaint style, and with singular force, which
points directly to Beecher as the author. We
know of no way in which we can give better
idea of the book than by quoting few of its
paragraphs .'
'some men seem to think that the Divine Being
has different qualities of mercies arranged apothe
caIies medicines are, on shelves and that the anoes
report 70 hlm tne CONDITION of men, and tie admin
listers to their wants according to HIS JUDGMENT.
Their idea OF the way which He best0ws His
blessings is something like this IAN angel reports
and He saws, who is itP The angel replies, 1T Is
be wants such and such blessing We'll, says
God, what is His cOndtoni ls he all riPht2 Is bis
case one of needP Has he done for himself up to
pretty much the right pointr If the replies of the
God says, In that case will help him;' so de
reaches up and takes such grace is needed, and
says, Hand i down to the manufacturing Ser
"I here are thousands of men that seem to rejoice
in botning else half 70 much as inlquity. The mo-
ment they hear the servant of the devil asking
Have you heard the news about and B p they saY
'Ntat itr SIT down and tell IL 10 me and II is so
re ishab to reveal and exquisite to hear, that
out in that wrong, that they fairly goat over it!
Ttis is he spirit Of the devil mself-Norning
Sermon, august Z, 1852"
"Men have despised the body too much but after
al, w en- tlod made the body He knew what He
was abOut-EUeni,,g Sermon, July IL, 1859"
II 20 back, now to my own ministry. have got
10 begin to talk about myself an old before
long have been, thus far, talking as though |
were young; but find that am remem bering back
too lar for that, when 20 back to the time when
first became the pastor OF church 1t was twenty
years ago. remember tnat the flock which first
gathered in the wilderness consisted OF twenty per.
sons Nineteen OF them were women, and the other
was nothinR. -Wednesddy EUentng Lecture, Nouem'
Der 16, 1850"
al very well remember going back after having
arrived at years OF manhood to the schoOl-house
where did not receive my early eouca ion. mea-
snred the stones which IN my childhood, it seemed
that giant could not lift, and could almost turn
them over with my foot! measured the trees which
seemed to loom to the sky, wondrously large but
they had shrunk grown shorter, and outspread mar
rover. looked in the old schoolhOuse and hew
small the whit ed benches ald the dilapidated
OF them! / looked over the meadows across which
my little toddlinG feet had passed. They had Onco
seemed to me to be broad fields, but now but narrow
|lbbons, lying between the house and the water.
marvel ed at the apparent change which had taken
place in these things, and thought what a child
must have been when they seemed to to be thinPs
OF great Importance. Ihe school'ma am-oh! what
q being thought she was! and the schooLmaster-
how awe stricken was in his pre- ence! So looking
and wistfully remembering, said 10 myself, We'll,
one bubble has broken But when you shall stand
above, ana look back with celestial and clarified
vision upon this world-this ricEetY old school,
house earth-it VIII seem smaller to you than me
that olo village schoo!.-MoTning Sermon, November
6, 1862"
pianos. They have them shut up, most OF the time,
ut one side OF the paror and when they have looked
alter the affairs OF the kitchen, and taken their
meals, and waited upon their company, and attended
TO all their other duties then, Tor relaxation, they
open them, and play few tunes upon them Some
time, and once IN awhile for change, they open It,
and pay upon it. They find 1t little out OF tune,
but they do not mind that, Morning Sermon, June
u, 1862"
1--WE are all of us merely developing spirit in mat
ter or out OF matter. We are gaining that victory
mortal, the transient, the perIshing. We are pro-
ducing from these roots, these stems-our bodies
blossoms and fruits which God shall be willing to
pick, that He may show them again IN another life
Morning Sermon, March 4, 1860."
There is not little piddlinR Justices court in the
whole nation that is not subject to the authority OF
our highest courts The highest court governs all
the lower courts, clear down 10 the bottom of our
so that its highest faculty shall govern all the acu
ties below 1t, clear down to the bottom .-MorRing
Sermon, June IL, 1859"
"Mhen a man comes to have this itch for gold,
this insanity of rolling over and increasing wealth.
there are no bounds TO his desire to accumulate
Though he were TO roll his pile as fast as the globe
rolls, he would not be satisfieu-AOJRing Sermon
January 10, 1850" a.
"I think that men in this world are like psmire
running up on one OF the pyramids OF Egypt, going
10 take prospect Inc lJIe insect CreepSI ana
cIeeps, and creeps, whole day, and only gets up
very short distance compared with the whole height
Of the structure, and he is 80 surrounded by bis o.
stones and other objects which adhere to its side
that he cannot see anything. So he creeps on anG
on and he may perhaps, in the course of week, ge
halt way UP TO the top If the wind does not happeI
to BLOW him of, and no other accident befals him
and then he cannot see anything, Tor he finds him
self behind creVice, or in q crack Now he cresp
and creeps again in another direction; and how onI
40 you suppose it will take him to get high tina
he can look over all the world; and when ne does
WHAT'S an ants Judgment about the world good for
--AAOTTsiag Sermon, Aprit "a, 1882
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