The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-03
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srfrN > A*
the wes eminent qualities Ia h9uar-
Ing EfA4asfu oGahtH, c1uf &Sa nAtF1sk asrF
iet Ia net forget ta honog te1 rha hist
otAtary ~ tbs pulpit 50 sell A. ID -
cuTAss. conspicuous thsEklus @Es1 is
- falter1ns devotion - Coj Gash AL
humanity - North cA~slgbA thVfu
hAy~ been born rvs sns 81 so&@1 ufse
izfrn II the Gospel ~ tho Ssa * Cos
who upcaaei extraordinary q4aAlo %
= their KIND. and gt1a tbAi A1nfa eh
title them - Remembrance ~ raaFAs
monuments ~ hen-E the departed
and pe~rlctuAto their nacsrsoro - fut tse
Instruction u uuburn svncfatIona
They we're Rev John Kerr ha4tlas
Kew. Ir. LoVick Pierce. Nicholas
Rev DT Frsncis I. hawNs Epls pa
iteN William Hooper. ID. LID
Baptist and Rev Thomas q Love
Methodist. In naming hes~ ar. uat
trying 80 force "a limit / heard 8ru
erai r J. ClgnErnan an Eg&~ I=stiAn.
SAY that he once heard Rev John
Kerr preach two AA1 t~hrrr-quart~~
hours. and ne would have willingly
heard him longer An u~uthiuktnx IN
different church audience woult snwn
and drop on a. sleep over n
sermon three quarters ~ an hour lpnE
= the preacher were "a Robert HAtt
or a Jeremy Taylor The able editor
~ the Religious Herald. tho petIpf
AFhi lA q AA tNH'sttttfftfHu H aFA
IS years axo. Rev Dr Jeremiah 1otcf
aid that after hna1ng mAnY preach
erN in England ana TIC United States.
that MIR Kerr wus the greatest 20 Atf
with one exception The Tate hf
Thomas l.. AdAiufA4n. of D4kuNtIis Va
"A near relative 81 ms family. aat q
Ruling Elder FOR PERHAPS farf} wears
in the Presbvtcfian church told me
perhaps quite forty ysafr since fhHt use
attended MIR Kerr ia MS art iEt
lie lived "a few mites from DauNtllt
Va. IN Casvcll county, = -. aua
served the Raptist church 1r bADttile
ae pastor lie thought N"rr Htehfy uf
hts ability. nnd told M" thHf he hfnrt
him SAY To hR cnpvrrFAt4Gn III +
were endowed with amulftc power
y / cuuld send IA" Gospel t. ta.
heather 81 au island or "a eofF 4
would not send then vueh r~e1lFfar aT
YOU profess and poases The swlu#
ent Rev Charles + Deems. ID
LID. saia 90 me % long TIM" ago thar
Ioytck Pierce was when at hls hsst
equal to any onc h. ever heard
prpach Hc evidently thought HIM fl-
perior 70 his wonderfully endowed apu5
tho eloquent Bishop George 4 Fferrr.
+ OF Georgia. Br Hawke ~a,s ap eSfra
ordinarily endowed ais i seesk - thut
in New York CITY ~tprababls si1ty i've
adjourned after listening -
a marvellous and most eloquent
speech bA She SuTh GArGlrIau. s
member stated that he moved a.3s
jaurumcut. aH the Convention Ne l8
10 mental condition fer dec.afau AT
ter hearing The very extraordinary 81
fort Of Dr HAWKS u adjourned !
remember well that General + Wat
son webb. tho then very able editor ~
the New York Courier aud Enquirer,
stated In Isis paper chat ne cd not
believe hat Or Hawks speech hal
ever beer. surpassed in the annals Or
oratory or perhaps ~ was "fs tho an
nails 81 any dniibcrntivc body D.
not know IN which counts Nj Kerr
was born He tgnH the father Or the
late very eloquent Judge John KrrTs
who. by the way. ~as born 1u Viz
GINA. but served ~ tho Congress and
WAS on the Bench in North Carolina
Or Pierc" and Ar Lowe were natives
OF Halifax county Or. Hawke Wa
born in Craven. / thfuk / think that
the learned. distinguished Row wi.
lam Hooper. -. Ii - one Of our
best writers as - style. and a Bapt.t.
IL we'll worthy II a monument ~
doubt other most worthy names could
be iutelllKently, Discriminatory rlg-
Rogted / have confined uayreif strict
III to men Of North Carolina nativity.
Hczekiah q. Leigh WAS an orator ~ a
commanding type. Hc did what f"|
men eNcE. lid IN the pulpit. he prrstin
ed to thcIr feet a large congregation IA
Norfolk. Va Thoua g 1--we ~~
wonderful in his own chosen line |
purpose writing an article upon him
II II IL Gods wiII s. FAR az ( am IN
formed his sermon preached near
Henderson. at Rocky spring. in Vance
county nov. but then Granville. tn"
great old county. in the yssa.s 1859, VA
the most superb manifesfalDn ~ en-
~rapturing eiOqueuce that WAS ever
heard within the bordcrs ~ this STATE
II thought thai poetry ~as saouFh
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