MISCELLANEOUS.

LYMAN BEECHER.
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Two or three weeks since we inserted an article comparing and contrasting this emi- nent divine with the Rev. Dr. CAANNINe, of Boston. From the samo paper, the Journal of the Times, of Bennington, Vt. one of the neatest and best conducted papers in New England, we copy the following. Many of our readers will bear testimony to the faith. fitness of the sketch.

 70 the Editor ef the Journal:

 DEAR SIR,-I promised you descrip- tor oi living preacher, to whose instruc- tion have had the pleasure of listening with an intenseness, not equalled, perhaps in any other case in my life. I had long heard of him before saw him, and had in my imagination clothed his person in those awful and impressive features, which en- sure the highest and the most commanding respect. Guess, then, my surprise to see small man with black eyes and of dark complexion, sharp features, wrinkled brow, coarse black hair, an open and fa- miliar countenance, promising nothing be- yond the plainest common sense.

 He asccnded the pulpit like some boy a- bout to mount the rostrum for the first time since he unyoked his team, and entered the grammar-school. He cast around him a piercing look, and then put on a vacancy of fcountenance, as if determined to appear as little as the smallest boy in the gallery. He prayed with earnestness, and with a striking appropriateness, but still he hardly began to command my respect, except ,ha, he seemed a good man, and made me will ling to have him try if he had any power to interest me. He read the psalm in plain and simple manner, making his own em. pkasicals (if may coin word) as if rais. ed in his own estimation above Iall the rules of poetry: and still the performance was impressive. On hearing the psalu read, had about committed ], to memory He held my attention fixed, not to himself at all, but to the sentiment of the psalm He named his text, as boy would reao a note of instruction sent by him to gang of workmen, who were all attentive to the note, but unmindful of the messenger He opened his subject in what have ofieu styled the mGttsr-of fact-tone, and still with an earnestness that secured him atten- ton. He named his plan, and its compre- hensiveness sstonished me. It seemed