Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-23
"WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1878.


ers, as some say, TO better account, and
been able to look forward TO the evening
days of this life without any anxious care,
and then die and leave a fortune TO my chill
dren. But alas, ought to be ashamed Of
such thought For the fortunate man Is
not the one who has all that money can buy,
but the one who has what money can never
buy the fortunate, blessed child is not the
one launched out into life on a rich argosy
of material comforts and appointments, but
who starts in life with industry and self de-
nial, sound principle and reasonable culture,
a great fear of God in his soul and a great
love in his heart for Christ and for his fellow
men. Reverence, gratitude trust, love- obe-
dience, an unconquerable will to keep every
command Of God, never take wings They
are costly things but they are precious
things and they last forever. The blessing
of God maketh rich and wise. ] will try to
remember that, if ever | want pleasure or
power or riches more than his blessing"
Here was preacher who was also, in large
and full sense, a man not feeble, blood
less anchorite declaiming against passions
he had never felt, and pretending to despise
worldly successes he never could have won
hut man who had been fully endowed with
all that belongs to manhood, with splendid
physical organization, with capacious in.
| tellect, with instincts, desires and ambitious
which 10 most men easily become passions,
with great executive and administrative
abilities a man who might have won almost
every prize the world has TO offer. but who
had conquered appetite, turned his back on
pleasure, refused place and power and flung
away ambition, and had found satisfaction
for his intellect, home for his affections,
;nS IN tbat rel;oion ar once trutb and n
life which centres in the Son of God. who
10 also the Son of Man. II was NV sncb
nreacb;ng 40 this vital svmnatbetic. true
io hnman eyner;ence in its deeper needs
tbat Dr Iord NOT onlv accomnlisbed In
GOOD measnre what he himself laid ont for
the preacher not only "nnveiled the preai
wisdom and wealth Of Christian truth. and
fed and enriched the church of Cod bu,
also. to n good depree. did the work of a
nastor conversinp with his people in tbei,
collective canac;tv more nersuasivelv than
he conld have done bv private effort. and
endearino them IN h;s office and his perso,,
bv a threshold cord of admiration, gratitude
and affection.
In the structure and stvle of his sermons.
DIR. Lord had some marked peculiarities
His method of treating subject WAS not TO
omen it, as the phrase is. to develop it by
following the natural succession of idea.
and then IN secure constant nropress OF
thought and movement of feeling from be.
Ginning IN end. but to mt the subject in a
Succession of STRIKING lights and TINS make
if attractive to the IMAGINATION. interesting
IN tbe feeIinos and nersuasive 10 the will
I'm tbis resnect bis oratorv resemhled that oi
DR.. Chalmers az we'll as in afluenoe OF
Illustration. and in the freouent iteration of
the same thought in VARYING forms of ex.
nression for nnrnoses of amnlifcation and
emphasis Ills rhetoric had an almost
oriental warmth and GLOW and vet il wa.
chasta 90 On ;cicla U;s diction was cboic.
and elegant often {. familiar but Inv no
means v9igarn Roth in his sermons and
his EXERCISE of worshin he kent studiously
claar of ali ,bosa racllase irravareut half
nrofane modes of exnression which the
nIatforn s,vla of mint sarv;cas has mad
too. co,n,no1 Ua ahhnrred ahove ali thing.
yhat be nsad 70 cali :. stumn sermons and
., stnnn rr.vars One of the incidental
hene6ts of attend;nq b;s ministry was AN
.dncat;on !, GOOD E9glisb Ills method ol
congestion vas to select a tonic for hi,
S,,,aa,,,s d;soorrsa aarIy IN tba yaak n
thinL y,on !, nntiI II gyadna,Iv took shan,
w lie n,;,d avon ~ Re- rhr.seologv and
,han ,anaII,, or Sat,rdar con,nif2 Il II
.,r;t;,o u,hicb ha d;d viii oraat ranid;tv
seldo,ps ,I,ar;na Tho structnre Of a sentenc,
| -, ,orrao,;nc, p ,,hrosa ~, ,,orJ lie Ma,
| yaor's ser,nor fdr is7z which must havt
| haan tho Iast or Iast h,t ono which ba wrote
| Ia nur,barad forrtaan bnndrad and nine
rhis nnr,har y,h;oh doas NOT ;pcInda hi.
fnnarai and oooae;oroI discourse INIT onl,
his nranarations for ragular Sabbatb.day
| services if distrihutad avenIv over his thirt,
wears ministry, would give an average oI
nearly ,iftv fresh sarmo1s a wear
liz dalivarv wae nlaasing and effective-
mot marLad 10 ,raat cbance in meditation
accomnanied Win but little gestnre I'm
adantad 10 ;mnress the bnarar ,yith the dig
nitv of the snaakar tho GRAVITY Of the sub
;acf and ,ba oooas;on anS ,ba trntb and i'm
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| + "a ,bat =, ha sr,, l., lie oasd Nil
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