The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-07-20

peal. then brought heavily down upon
the rail in imprecation.
The preacher rises high upon his
toes, then descends with crash upon
his heels. His body sways backward
and forward. Sometimes he folds both
hands together and lays them against
the lower part of one cheek. Again.
he lifts them high and looks upward.
head His eyes are blazing. What is
he? A stout. red-faced, gray-haired
man who is profoundly moved about
something and whom a rush Of blood
to the head may lay low the next in
stant? Yes. he is that: Catholic
priest, ruddy. old fashioned. But
peers of England are sitting rigid un-
der the spell of him. and duchesses
are nervously biting their lips and
wipng their eyes.
He is talking of the men who knew
Jesus in the flesh and followed Him.
He had taken his text from the tWen-
ty-second chapter Of ST. Matthew, tho
forty-second verse. What think We Of
Christ? Whose son is He?"-Jesus'
question to the pharisees. and now he
bent far forward over the pulpit: rail,
and asked the people in tone Of
homely intimacy. Nov, what think
ye Of Christ? Whose son is He? What
did Peter. James and John think Of
Him? It's far more important to mo
to- know what they thought than what
Professor Pfleiderer Ca German critic)
thinks. or what Mr.. Campbell-(the
reference here was to Rev. R. J. Camp
bell, pastor of the. City Temple and
Joseph Parker's successor)-thinles.
They knew Him. They loved Him.
They served Him. And. finally, they
lived and died for Him.
"He made supreme demands upon
them. They were hidden to leave an,
to leave father and mother-all. He
told them that He must be first in
their hearts or not at all. Never were
such demands laid upon man. My
beloved brethren. those men saw all
this. They heard the tremendous
claims He. made. They bent to His
exactions. There were fine. brave
young men then. as now, ready to
shake off all things and follow Him.
They saw Him. They lived with Him.
They studied with Him. They knew
Him far better than they knew them
selves. Putting on His character, liv-
ing His life, hey-went-forth-ts-
convertible world"
There were pauses between tho
words here separated. by ,dashes,
pauses heavy with the awe of thu
preacher The last three words Wen
flung far forth in a great. joyous
shout. A glow of more than mortal
happiness shone in the strong, old
face and transfigured it. The man
vibrated with power. and the passion
Of the devotee radiated from him. No
longer did he hesitate and no longer
did he strive for precixon in utter
ance. He seemed to have lost all con-
sciousness Of self
The words came in torrents and the
sentences took care of themselves. The
note Of wrath crept into his voice and
rose and deepened and expanded until
hoarse music. like the roar of heavy
guns, rolled through the church and
beat down upon you with hurting
clamor. These were the sentences
"'oh,' say these German critics. oh.
He's divine, yes He's divine in the
sense we are all divine" London
divine! Heaven save the mark Lon-
don divine! Society divine!-society
that is going to questionable plays, so-j
ciety that is talking its scrofulous
language. that is playing upon every
|'nerve in the quest for pleasure. so-s
ciety whose members are entertain
] ing each other to sin. ~.