Lamps Pitchers And Trumpets Lectures On The Vocation Of The Preacher Illustrated By Anecdotes Of Every Order Of Pulpit Eloquence From The Great Preachers Of All Ages

Excerpt from Lamps, Pitchers and Trumpets: Lectures on the Vocation of the Preacher; Illustrated by Anecdotes, Biographical, Historical, and Elucidatory, of Every Order of Pulpit Eloquence, From the Great Preachers of All Ages Prominent'among these quarrellers with the pulpit is the Saturday Review. It has expressed itself thus, There is a gulf between the clerical mind and the ordinary male mind, which is deep and daily deepening on the one side it is a pity akin to contempt, too apathetic to form itself into words; on the ether, there are pious hands uplifted in meek Spitefulness. The same pious and respectable organ says, The mass of the male sex look upon religion as a womanish kind of thing. Another of these insolent and unworthy attacks is from the pen of one who calls him self A Dear Hearer it has received the most encomiastic eulogies from The Homilist, which, in its usual in ated style, speaks of it as having the ring of Luther and J unius. This expletive style of praise is very cheap and very easy, yet the thing contains hints which may be used, although it is to be deplored that the editor of a periodical, himself a preacher, can only set his hand to endorse the bill filed against all his brethren, and'his whole profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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