The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-10

| bndll never ma MN out OF tue way chlA iOA
him when ye will: he is ever at his plough, no
lording lOytering may ever hinder him, tor
he is ever applying to his business"
Or let us take his "merry toye," as
he styles it, about Master Moore, as
his application of q humorous story to
refute the malignant allegation that the
preaching of Gods word had stirred up rebel
lions in the kingdom:-"Here was preaching
against covetOusness all last year in Lent and
the next summer followed the rebellion; ergo
preaching against covetousness was the cause
of the Rebellion. A most goodly argument
forsooth. Here, now, l remember a merrie
tOye of Master Moore, which he useth in q
bOOke against Bilney. Master Moore was once
sent into Kent to help find out what was the
cause of Goodwin Sands, and the shelf that
stopped up Sandwich. Thither cometh Master
Moore, and calleth the country before him,
such as were thought to be men Of experience,
and men that could of likelihood certify him
of the matter. Among others came before him
an old man, and one that was thought to be
over one hundred years old. When Master
Moore saw this aged man he asked him his
mind in the matter, for, being so DID, he
thought it was likely he knew most OF
any man in that company, and said, Father,
tell me, ii you can, what is the cause
of the great arising of the sands upon the
haven You are the oldest man that l can
spy in all this company Yea, forsooth,
MASTER said the old man, 4 am nigh one
hundred years old, and no man near unto
mine age. think Tenterden steeple was the
cause of Goodwin Sands, for l remember when
there was no steeple at all there; and before
Tenterden steeple was built there was no
manner Of flats and sands stopping the haven;
| therefore, think Tenterden steeple was the
| cause of Goodwin Sands. And so, my
brethren, the preaching of Gods word was
| the cause of the rebellion, Just about as
much as Tenterden steeple was the cause
of Goodwin sands" In his seventh sermon
! upon the Lords Prayer in warning his
hearers against the wiles of the devil, we
have this passage:-'If he be young and
lusty, the devil will put in his heart, and say
| to him, What thou art in thy flowers, man;
| take thy pleasure, make merry with thy COM
pany: remember the old proverb young
SatnteS, old deUilS;' which proverbe is in very
deed naught and deceitful, and the DEVILS
own invention, who would have parents negli-
gent in Bringing up their children in goodness.
He would rather see them brought up in idle
ness and wiokedness, and therefore he found
| out such proverb to make them careless for
their children. But the proverbe is naught,
for look commonly what children are brought
up wickedly, they will be wicked all their
lives after: and therefore we may more pro-
perly say this, Young deuils, old deUiLs; y0ung
saintes, old Saintes.'" "
| Now we give these extracts from the sermons
of good Bishop Latimer, to show that humor
was not considered by this pious man as out of
place. even in pulpit discourse. Let it be
remembered that his piety was almost inspired
In its zeal and devotion, for he attested the
earnestness of his faith by ''giving his body
to be burned" 1t was predicted when he was
quite a lad, "that St. Paul's cross would vet
ring of this boy" This celebrated spot was
the forum of the London of his day, and from
its elevated pulpit, erected in the middle of
the churchyard of st. Paul's, announcements
i'm oil rtoiD IN
Church and State were poured into the popular
ear and heart. And st. Paul's did ring of him,
| for no preacher of his time had the power to
draw such audiences, nor was more faith
| full. He never spared either small or great
| but went about his Masters business hav-
| ing no mind to be respecter of per-
! sons. No doubt he had some ecclesi-
astical court sycophant or time-server within
the range of his vision at the moment he
uttered that fierce blast against approaching
prelates, commencing = "What are they
doing2 Some occupied in the kings matters
some in the privy council; so troubled with
lordly living, so proud in palaces, couched in
courts, rutling in their rents, dancing in their
dominions, burthened with ambassages, PAM
pering of their paunches." 1t calls to mind
old Wimbledon's picture of the clergy of his
day, as sketched in his annals: "They be
clothed as knights they speaker as earles,
while others are winning much gear as mer-
chants. These proud prelates are too much
bent with shining of riches, for they make
their mansions like churches in greatness; but
the poOre man, for default of clothes, beg
geth, and with an empty wallet cryeth at their
dooTes."
Jeremy Taylor, the immortal author of
''HOly Living and Dying" work that Will
mott has so happily characterized as ga divine
pastoral, in which the solemnities of piety
and wisdom, like the painters tomb in Area
dia, breathe tender seriousness over all the
scenery of fancy, eloquence, and learning"
did not hesitate to resort to humor whenever
he thought it would enforce the truth of his
text. His sermons are full of vivacity as
exhilarating as that which makes Livy the
most entertaining of historians, and Mon
taigne the most charming of essayists. He
draws his illustrations from every quarter
manifesting a most astonishing familiarity
with all the learning of his time, and aptness in
applying it. The son of a barber, he
early manifested a deep and earnest
love for study. He was the wonder of
his college, both on account of his as
tonishing mental precociousness, as for
the beauty of his person and the sweet amia-
bility of his temper. "When he preached his
first sermon" says a contemporary ''his con-
gregatiOn took him for some young angel,
newly descended from visions of glory" His
charming temperament and lambent humor
are constantly visible in his pulpit discourses.
How humorously he describes the wife who
has usurped the rule of the husband ga
ruling woman is intoerable; but that is not
all, she is miserable too. 1t is a sad calamity,
my brethren, for woman to be joined to
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