The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-10-11
OUR LETTERFRoM BRoADBRlM
Some of the Great Preachers Of the Metrop-
oIis-Gotthert, GoIlyer, Newton, Adler
and Jerry McAuley- Politics.

oiis-Gotthert, CoIlyer, Newton, Adler
and Jerry McAuley-Polftics
NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 1884. {
EDITOR CHEF:
Among the many men who influence the
character of New York and Brooklyn none
will compare with its preachers. There
are undoubtedly great preachers in other
cities-men of learning, piety and eminent
ability, but nowhere in this land is there
such constellation of pulpit eloquenee as
can be found in Few York and Brooklyn.
And this eloquenee is confined to no partic-
ular sect or greed: it seems to be- divided
impartiaiiy among them all. If yeu 60 to
London, with its four millions of inhab-
itants, one oyertops all others, when you
speak of pulpit eloquence, and that is the
name of Spurgeon. The cabman and the
chimney sweep, the costermonger and the
donkey driver, can all direct you to Mr..
Surgeons temple oyer The aeater, as the
Thames is lovingly called, and while they
might also direct you to st. Paul's or West
minister Abbey, they could not tell you W no
preached there to save their lives. In New
York and Brooklyn. it is very different.
There are scores of men in these two cities
who in all that goes to make up thorough
and finished pulpit oratory, far surpass the
great London preacher.
One of the most remarkable men in New
York is the Jewish Rabbi Of the TEMPLE
Emanuel, on the Fifth 4..yenue, DR.. Gott-
hert, MAJ of immense learning and
splendid natural ability. No man in New
York stands higher than this Jewish priest
"a grand teacher, devoted Israelite, q
man whose knowledge has scaled every
every depth where human wisdom can be
found and yet in the broad charity of his
heart knowing no difference between jew,
or Pagan, or Christian, when human suff err
ing is to assuaged or human woe is to be
alleviated. It is this broad and Catholic
spirit that has made DR.. Gotthert SO much
beloved and honored. His face is fam
liar one ct most of our great fashionable
gatherings, and, although he is by no
means a society man,-on the contrary, he
is the highest type of philosopher,-no
frst-class gathering would be considered
complete without him, and the.best families
in New York feel honored by the Doctors
presence.
There are several other eminent JEWS,
Rabbis in New York, but in personal pop
ularity with the mass of Jews and GentiIes
he far surpasses them all.
The face of DIR. Robert Col1yer of the
Church of the Messiah, is familiar one at
all of our public gatfdeziugs gs.a Unitarian
in belief and a churchman whose creed
two hundred years ago would have sent
later date, would have been denied the
right of Christian sepulture, now finds
himself equal in love and respect, if not in
Christian fellowship, with three-quarters of
the Orthodox churches in the city. Doctor
Collyer isa very remarkable manufacturing
manhood without education, laboring daily
at one of the most toilsome occupations
known to man. After he resolved to preach
he had industry enough to educate himself,
till to-day in the great metropolis of the
United States he stands the peer of the
best pulpit orators in the city. The Church OF
the Messiah when he took it was completely
run down, and loaded with debts. DR.. Coli
yer infused new life into the congregation.
the debt was speedily paid off, and now the
principal difficulty with the uslers is to
find room for the hundreds who desire to
hear him. He is large man with good
kind generous face and great big heart.
He shows his Saxon stock and is the grand
est type of an Englishnan, if any nation
can fairly claim man who is SO thorough
ly cosmopolitan. The Doctor was never
intended for an ascetic; he likes a good
dinner, eats well and sleeps well, goes free
ly out into society and is welcome wher-
ever he goes. There are no isns or non
sense about him. When preaching he goes
right straight for his subject, and his Won
derful powers lies in his simple iIlustra-
tons which are generally taken from na-
lure. Sometimes it's a little flower OR
little butterfly or the song of a bird, but
whatever it is it comes to the hearer in the
light of new revelation. His congrega-
few men in our midst whom envy nor de-
traction ever touched. He is a man of the
most robust health and gives promise of
many years of usefulness.
A gentleman Of quiet manners and ele
CANT culture is the Rev. Heber G. Newton,
whose sermons on the bible few months
since caused such a profound sensation in
religious circles. A man Of fine fhres and
delicate organization, he is the last man in
the world one would have picked out as a
radical revolutionist. Yet, beneath that
quiet exterior is will of iron and a reserved
power capable of mighty exertion. Like
Luther, if opposed he would speak his
mind, if devils were as thick as tiles on
the houses. Mr.. Newton is greatly beloved
by his congregation. As he progressed
with those remarkably heterodox sermons,
which were calculated to undermine the
very foundations of orthodox belief, his
church began to fill with earnest listeners.
Here and there a member of lis congre-
cation trembled with fear at the new rev.
elation of the bold evangelist, but the great
body of his church was with him heart and
soul. At last. outside churches began to
take the alarm and very soon the devoted
young preacher was assailed by storm of
invectiye and abuse, which IS but an indif-
ferent commentary ON our modern Chris
tianity. The spirit of the young man rose