Smyrna times., 1867-11-27
NJ | S G Z LII An NEOUS.
REV. NEWMAN HALL.

AS this minister is now ATTRACTING so ro,,oL
attention In this country, and his name i IN
everybody mouth, we publish the following
Atract concerning him from Harper's UeeIHy.
Next to Mr. SpurgeOn, the most prominont
preacher OF the Gospel in England is the Raw
newman Hall. To him the working classes Of
LONDON are indebted for most faithful FLOR
IN their behalf; to him the whole Cbr;stiam
world owes that brief, powerful treatise Toa,a
% % 0eS@$ to hlr the temperance cause owes
ne ne lhnuence OF an earnest advocacy; to him
the American people owe a great debt Of rrat;
tnde Tor his eloquent detenses of the T-Uio@ and
E"tqActpdh0n before the British public thromnb
tile late conflict. He was our unfinchng advo-
cate from first to last Week after woeE bo
uGlended our cause from the pulpit and tLe
platform; When Mr.. Gladstone uttered b;S
famous declaration that Jefferson Davis had
succeeded IN founding nation" Mr. Hall
"o'ut1I "1oto 20 the chancellor of the Exchequer SO
powerful reply to the unfortunate assertion
Gnat GE6nat Mr. Gladstone laid the reply before thn
DrltlSh Cabinet at an official meeting. Aftrr
SIX years OF untlrlng devotion to American
freedom the pastor of Surrey Chapel has come
over to receive the first installment Of onr
countrys gratitude. He has had more rr. |
marka6le reception than any British clergyman
since the days of Whitfield o
Newman Hall was born at Maidstone. Eno-
land, on the 22d of MAY, iSIG lis f,,hesn lIhs
was wa the late John Vine Hall, famous thromDb
nrltaln as the author Of the Sinners Friend"
HIS biography has had a wide circuIation in
America. One OF Newman Halls elder broth.
efs' captain Vine Hall, was the first conmanrr
OF the Great Edstern His mother was tbc
pretty Mary Ieverilr whom John Vine Hall
then wild youth, met and fell in love with
az a. urst-slght at chapel door in Worcester.
one Is stu Hvlng-a sprightly matron of over
tOur-Score % 0''i
Kev Newman Hall was the fourth child of
ms ms parents; While an infant his nurse play
fully called him =" little ne,o come" This sn.,.
gesfed to his father to name him Nern,189.
aiter the son OF an intimate friend. Hi, early
lIte was spent at Maidstone, and he nnrsnri
the study OF the law thoroughly, and obtained
an honorary degree
Twenty five years ago Mr. Hall left his secu- {
lar profession to enter the Congregational min !
Stry. lie said to himself, = l don't feel as if
business would call out my greatest energies
ana want to address my fellow countrymcn to
persuade then. to Christ" This has been the
keynote OF his ministry. He does not preach
'"yecttcety like Mr.. Beecher, dis,ecting human =
alurc Out 0bJectlvey presents Jesus to the =
'ye OF his audience continually. $
lie began his ministry at Hull. A di>courso "
IN the words " Strive to enter in at the strait .
gate, delivered at the OpeniDp of the now "
hapel, secured him u call to the chanel at "
nee. lie preached the same sermon in DR. Il u
juyier church few Sundays since In 1854 =
le was invited to the famous Surrey Chanel u
Vnlch was built Tor Rowland Hill in 1893 1t j.
eglon thronged by the poorest of the laboring a.
lasses. Among this class he has labored with l,
SUCCESS al
Mr.. Hall breaches 10 an average congroco. w
ION OF twenty hive hundred and his church u
9mDerS fourteen hundred communicates. On
Ionday evening the chapel is opened for tl el
oPular lecture TO the working classes on such ~
1plcS as chemistry, history, and the America
ar. Monthly mass. meetings for temnerancn >,
ave been maintained for twelve years with n n
reat success prayer book is used at the Al
aO6ath services, although Mr. Hall has been cr'
ne President OF the British Congregational WI
nlon' and Is stanch opponent of Churches to'
OlishIlehts' Amidst his vast parochal duties m a.l
e has found time to write several nonnIar up
orks. His celebrated little treatise. Come M mi
Jesus, has reached sale of over two mil 1n' IN
1ns Ot copies At home he averages five III
rmons week, and since he has been in Pc
merlca has delivered fifty sermons in month NE
Brook lyn he addressed ten thousand peopIe tht
single Sabbath, and after the fourth SER wa
on showed no symptom Of fatigue II nurse uIi M
yself, said he, in the morning as 7 wonlG ia
horse at the beginning of forty mile drive pu
1t put ON the whip on the last stretch. -
Is rigid teetOtaler, and in London WALL I
dozen miles on every Sunday. tgr
Mr.; Halls reception in America has been pla
mplete ovation. Such citizens as LongfelIow, e en4
INNER, Beecher, and Mrs. Stowe have been fcc'
) entertainers and the leading churches
We been thronged to listen to his tender and I
autIiul discourSes The New York Stool the
'ard invited him to address them, received into
, speech 9. will" with hearty applause and then his
uck up God save the queen!' "Onlv DOS
ink, said he to US, "of the London Stor{{ S%{{ F''
'change suspending their business to listen L
q pars0n y No other British clergyman In Il
: earned such compliment from American zee Zee
mans lie expects to preach before the et' cDlo
'uses OF Congress at Washington before his his the
parture. O0i0io MS
MIR. Hall is slender, wiry man of five feet X
ven, OF great muscular strength and prodi' or ; ;
Us rEr capacity pnd OF endurance tie is an easy coro
;;rIng his powerful address ON "A Amerco "
England he used brief; but most of his and
= efforts have been extemporaneous. lie A =,