The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-09
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BROADBlsINI'S NEW YORK
LETTER

Among the many men who in.
fluence the character of New York
and Brooklyn none will compare
with its preachers. There are un-
doubtedly great preachers in other
cities-men Of learning, piety and
eminent ability, but nowhere in this
land is there such a constellation of
pulpit eloquence as can be found in
New York and Brooklyn. And
this eloquence is confined to no par
ticular sect or creed; 1t seems to be
divided impartially among them all.
If you 60 to London, with its four
millions Of inhabitants, one name
overtops all others, when you speak
of pulpit eloquence, and that is the
name of Spurgeon. The cabnan
and the chimney-sweep, the coster-
monger and the donkey driver, can
all direct you to aMr. Spurgeon's
temple over the aCater as the Thames
is lovingly called, and while they
might also direct You 20 st. Pauls
or Westminster Abbey, they could
not tell you who preached there to
save their lives. In New York and
Brooklynit is very different. There
are a score Of men in these two
cities, who in all that goes to make
up thorough and finished pulpit
oratory, far surpass the great Lon
don preacher.
One of the most remarkable men
in New York is the Jewish Rabbi
of the Temple Emanuel, on the
Fifth Avenue, DR.. Go:thert, q man
Of immense learning and splendid
natural ability No man in New
York stands higher than this Jew.
ish priest-a grand teacher, a de.
voted Israelite, a man whose knowl-
edge has scaled every height and
whose plummet has sounded 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 Chris.
tian, when human suffering is to be
assuaged or human woe is to be al
leviated. 1t is this broad and Cath.
olic spirit that has make DR.. Colt.
hert so much beloved and honored.
His face is a familiar one at most
Of our great fashionable gatherings,
and, although he is by no means e
society man, on the contrary, he is
the highest type Of philosopher,
no first class gathering would be
considered complete without him,
and the best families in New York
feel honored by the Doctors pres.
ence.
There are several other eminent
Jewish Rabbis in New York, but in
personal popularity with the mass
Of Jews and Gentiles, he far sur.
passes them all.
The face Of DR.. Robert Collyer
Of the Church of the Messiah, Is q
familiar one ct all Of our public
gatherings. A Unitarian in belief
and churchman whose creed two
hundred years ago would have sent
him to the stake, and who ever at q
much later date, would have been
denied the right Of Christian sepul.
ture, now finds himself equal in love
and respect, if not in Christian fel.
lowship, with three quarters of the
Orthodox churches in he city.
Doctor Collyer is a very remarka,
bic man-reaching manhood with
ont education, laboring daily at one
Of the most toilsome occupations
known to man. After he resolved
to preach he had industry enough to
educate himsef, till to-day in the
great metropolis of the United
States be 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 debt. DR.. Collyer in
fused new life into the congregation
the debt was speedily paid off, and
now the principal difficulty with the
ushers Is, to 6ad room for the Isan
dreds who desire TO hear him, Hs
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