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sufficient for a volume instead of sermon. One ofthe minor heads would have been the whole that most preachers would have dwelt upon tn discOurSing from the text.

 INe scheme scemed Go grasp SOOrtd. It was his own. It was textual-it was sinl- ple-it absorbed the subject, and yet was embraced in it's folds. I looked at my watch, for the first time that day, to see fl there were hours enough to explore the fields of thought that were thrown open before me. Still the preacher was the same little man he had been, except that his eye began to be eloquent. His ges- lures were rather raw and awkward, made as it'to keep the blood circulating, but hav- ing no relation to his subject. He sawed the'air, as carelcsSly as the nursling strikes his mothers bosom. But his thoughts were rich. He made God appear great and good, and the sinner weak, and worthless, ,and insignificant rebel. At every stage of his subject, ho demanded my as- sent, and gave it, UOIens etnOlcmS. One thought prepared the way for another, and conviction attended every argument. He was master of the ground. 1.-the lnfdel, the Universalist, or the Unitarian, showed himself in any quarter of the field, one blow of his sabre felled him, and he rose no more. thought if there were any in the house they must feel themselves chop ped to pieces. And the conqueror stop ped not to bind up their wounds. The whole scheme of grace seemed like one les- son that he had learned by heart. Truth bowed at his approach, and fell into his train. It gave me joy to sec my own views so perfectly developed. The preacher bore me along, though never thought of him, as the mothers tale be- witches the listening child, and holds it at- tentive, not to herself, but to the tale she tells. It was the eloquence of truth. He closed. was conscious of having im- bibed more original truth than from scores of other sermons which had pronounced good. IVas grieved that he quit so soon l; and yet, as went out of the house, the clock struck, and convinced me that he must have preached at least two hours.