The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-18
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TilE a hERICAN1 rULPIT. !.
Tho Ministry nv Compared with othc,
Professsions and Occupations.
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.iW 1hh AhEhlCAN PULPIT. d
Tho Ministry nv Compared with othe
Professions ami OccupntIons, .
/ WHEELING, May 18th, 1882.
Editors lntelilScncet: % @a
In your issue Of yesterday pentlema,
wrltesa letter, giving, or attempting to give
asynopsls Of n sermon preached by Rev
Henry Ward Deccher. The writer Seem
to have been carriedaway by tho eloouenc,
Of the preaching, and speaks very culo
s'slleally Of Mr.. Beechcrs ability, to whicl
VIC oiler no objection. But there Is on,
paragraph in the letter, which, in III,
first place has but little ifany relevanc,
10 the main thought, and looks Us Il It llaG
been Intentionally luygcd in for IN I'm
charitable purpose, and, in tho scconi
place, 1t ls not true. I give his words.
"Thc ayenagS American pulplt Ia n failure. TIL,
, Wtc.,s o. rr0testaitlsn are vlsibiy weakening
WY Because Of tho intellectual and spirltlia
h noese.Isy o. large part OF the slctgy The blood
and houudlcs. Gnlhu.i .sm wnich American, c,.ti,
,.o a., M,,o,dy pursuits essentially lacking ii
Zion. how tl,ou art bumb,.d Il, ~. a.,
telec,ual and sniritunl ';,nbnc;i;,v ;"o ~ ~
priests who minister nj NV al,nrsi sh, ,,.u
Of Asbnry, and Edwards, and payson, look
let us scan ,his remnrkaIin s,o,o,nor. q
little closer, Tnke ,hr iirsi scn,"mr"".L ="
average American nnlnit Ia n i,;lura y
I'm somewhat nj n las n tnow r .I ~.
author means. II he mrn6s - savil,"t liz,
average pulnit does not holI nm ;n,.lIor,nnj
ciunt such M he consirrs nir noonLor ~
be, then "tLe nycr,pc nuln;t IL . f.;lnro y
hit uuon tLr an,, "ro,nd ,nrs, l." H..
clare Tho average scienti.i ,Io .uo.an.
physician. tho nvcrnrn lnwyrr nnJ "vnr",,o
merchant fa;nrn 1iow' ANU MveraEe
science nre written on tho Same in" with i,
those Of Ayasjz. Tyndnll, md IImxlcv. IN +,
medicine with those nj Flint n.l,on or
Ayuew; in business viii, those ~ Nitchc y
a. 4. Stewart or C;eorrc + S"nnvo ,rh.so,
mcu tower abovo thn ,varaSo
man like lofty moun,.;, naots " ,n"7u
above the average ; level Of thc r ru"r.
But Il this rcnticmor who Jao,s l., s,,,,i'
sweeping insertions mrnns ,hat In - hos, 1"s
ouulities TINT arr re,l md and oa,a,,,;ai o ,s
the truo prc"chrrs n III. nou, Essential s'"t ~
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moro s,,crrssiul "p,l ,s"f,, ti"" :, n.y., Ill.,
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md animal n. ,"os si %,r,t nI a U a.fvuu,s
fnl: thnt the ;nl,Nonco IS ,ha aisi LILY nnaa'
i"ion m humam .nc;o," , W." E. .,.; ri
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