Notes from Plymouth pulpit Author:Henry Ward Beecher Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: years of grim and solemn argumentation would have. A nickname well applied can paint a man better than any brush of artist. " Go tell that Fox" says Jesus... more », and what labored description could set Herod more vividly before us ? It is a fact that Mr. Beecher cannot keep his face to that devout measure and expression which those who gravely censure him, so holily wear. The people smile at their pastor, and at each other, and he smiles at them. Thus there is sunshine at evening there. Anon they look at him with falling tears, and his own eyes fill, and the tears roll down as he speaks of Christ's love and pity, or of man's ingratitude. Certainly, if it is better to suppress all such signs of feeling, it is more painful, and those who sit side by side unmoved, while are poured the prayer, the song, the entreaty, cannot love each other as they do who have, in their meetings, looked through smiles and tears, through sorrow and laughter, into each other's very hearts. Since the coming hither of Dr. Lyman Beecher the meetings have often been more interesting than ever. He stands like a glorious old ruin, speaking of the good days of the past. And he utters a few words more of love and invitation to the world before he leaves its shores forever. How ardently he loved his work! how he loves it now! One night the subject of remark during conference was " Looking unto Jesus." Mr. Beecher, with his usual power, had illustrated this looking, by the looking of a child towards its parents, a soldier to his officer, etc., and had then proceeded to show how much greater encouragement one would take by looking unto Christ. Said he, " "Tis hard to make people habitually do this, but far harder to cause them to realize that Jesus is actually always looking upon them. I think that m...« less