Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-26
EfMOTHY TITCOMB ON SPUR
GEON.

The poet Holland writes from Eng
ksua to the Springfield Republican |;
VIZ Spurgeon's church is very large
aisd we'll eontrived house, capable of
Iassding larger congregation, | judge,
esszEs that of Mr.. Beecher, in Brooklyn.
Ensased il is claimed that it affords COM
fsEtabls sittings to five thousand per-
sxnA There were not more than five
EsEzsdrad people in the church when l
essered, but they came pouring in
Exm- Eat time forward, until every
nars- of the building was crowded.
fhninesrior is oval, the platform pull
outstanding out from one extremity,
a1tf permitting the streets to sweep en-
slfsly around, an arrangement which
syvss a pretty good sized audience only
txe chance OF seeing the back side of
ese speakers head. Phe personal up
h<a<znce Of the great preacher has be-
eszzs so familiar to Americans, through
sHgravings and the descriptions of let
sxEwriters, that / need not say more
Shan that he impressed me, as he step
sed quietly npon the stand, as hearty
iSsslthy. powerful Hian. After giving
s@sa yBn, and begging the congre-
sstion not to sing it too slowly. he
n1Hed with them in the music. Then
1read Telegram he had just received
fspm some distant part of the kingdom,
Hsm man who was dying, and who
f6Hnd himself ia the dark hour, unsus-
sniaed by the Christians hope. His
psaYer for this stranger was one of the
Hrost touching things I ever heard. In
decd. the whole prayer, of which this
f7srned an episode, was marked with
gfeas fervor, thorough spirituality, and
A. flaw and command of language
which much surpassed nay expectation.
When be finished his preaching, I was
ngf left at loss to understana the secret
of his power He is a good man, a
STRONG man, thoroughly in earnest
There were passages in his sermoD, not
sfew. which reminded of Beecher. =
The same directness, the same bursts
Of grand and sweeping power, the same
fsifcities of dictien, which distinguish
ed the performances of the American
preacher, were scattered through the
szFmon. Mr.. Surgeons vocabulary is
net so large as that of Beecher He is
not SO en- rapport with the world of ma
tairp, and his fancy and Imagination are
mt SO active but he is dramatic, un-
derstands human nature, believes in
Christianity, IA good thing in preach
egs knows exactly what he wants to do,
aad drives straight forward to the end
he seeks. / do not know that Mr..
Sturgeon is Mr.. Beecher's superior in
anything except it may be as business
man. His faculty of organization of
sssfing other people at work as to null
truly his own personal power thous-
and fold, must distinguish him in the
resaits of his life, from Mr.. Beecher.-
Mr. Sturgeon is doing by organization
szsl institution, what Mr. Beecher does
by personal magnetism. Mr.. Beecher
inspires other clergymen Mr.. Spur
sse9n educates them, and so builds and
shapes the policy of institutions that he
VIII be producing preachers after his
owu kind long after he has passed
AWAY. The spirit of the man is kindly.
His manner to ward his people is famil-
ias and fatherly. Like the Brooklyn
preacher, too, he is not without his
DASH of humor. In short, left his
presence, at last, with good taste in
n4y mouth, and the firmest wish in my
lkeart that the Lord would send into
tIse world, and set to work, ten thous-
and Just such sensational fanatics as Mr..
Snafweou. a g1Na @