, 1875-01-31
OTHER PEOPLES SERMONS.

There are three ways By which preacher
may avail himself Of another preas aer's he-~
mons. He can credit them to their enthor
before reading them to his congregation; or
he can declaim them as his own (antl pEny
over them as such before and after their de-
uvery); or he can reproduce them with such
interlineations and interillustrations as will
bring them down to the most recent sctennfc
discussion. and thus pervade them with IN a1r
Of his own individuality and originality.
The celebrated DR. PARn generally informed
his hearers not only where they ''n'sht find
the words OF my tezt," !" but the words OF my
sermon as well When he was accused OF
sspreaching a sermon Of Dr.. REEs, socin~
ian," he replied that the sermon wGs written
BY Mr. CooAS, and that he would ''cont'nue
to preach good sense whether it comes from
the pen Of Nh. CooAN, or DR.. REEs, or Bishop
SHERLOCK" and to ''sprinkle the holy dew OF
panegync upon these illustrious worthless.
The sermon-trnde in England is confined
almost exclusively TO the clergy of tta Estai-
lishment, who are not all as honest as LIT.
Pam, but lay by in store Largo assortment
Of other peoples discourses in bot,. manu-
script and print, which they dispense as the'f
own composition. Possibly their hearers are
quite willing to conceal their suspicious, pre-"
ferzing good borrowed sermon to m nun"
ferent original one. But the sermon-traaa
lends to embar1assments, as an anec-
dote will prove. The Dissenting "mlnls-
ter" and the Established ''clergy1nan OF
certain English town bore the same name
In consequence, the postmen leaves package
of manuscript sermons at the humble rarson-
age which he ought to have left at tho sven
| rectory. The minister discovers the mlstake
upon opening the contents, and forthwith
conveys the parcel to the clergyman, WHO to
marks that ''The blunder could not hare o.
CURED if You had not assumed s'11s
("Rev.~) for which you have no authon's.
Whereupon retorteth the other, "lt coulo
not have happened if you had not Assumed
title for which you have no qualifications!
The sermon traders in England do a cons'o'
| erable business with those who have " author
| itv" to preach other peoples bruins II a.
| fault of any of their own. One OF their GU
| culars gives the following list Of prices:
/ .~.,..-r. 60 Is
quaI1e. ,t sessIaons. -. : .. u
| Sermons from pul,lshoI ust, Or fourteen io1
s. specimen I'M ; Sermon jnsv
3Ilsaionary, national schoo1 church nnalmae' 4 &
school fs*... dds so1p;, church na;a :a
' Special sermons II required
Another firm undertakes to "prevent o., :,
tection.~ To this end, "No duplicates w.
be sent into the immediate neighborhooo ~ =
subscriber" aud 'No subscriber may .aIts. .1:-
any copy Of sermon, or preach It out o1 -. ~
own parish, without the consent OF the e.ns
or,"-who appears to act as Kind OF INV w.
| tua1 friend" in this dck1ish traffic, lnee"
sermons arc Autographed, aad, as We may sn,'
. manuscziptod, 90 TINT the preacher may .t
over tho leaves with Ill the assurance with ""> -
he " endowed, and with no leas .7eehng =. ~
confident reverence ho may soy " Ae' y.
prag" at the conclusion Of hi& fishing Tor 1ae'.
with another mans net. Such has bean ~
.aome e~tent the practice Of tho " saefeo p,. ~.
fesslon In the Church Of England from .ns .'
tlsne ,sh4n sls HooxD De covsanx1 tsaan
wers adiGad anss svssy sunaay os ths "s