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Pen Photographs of Celebrated Men and Noted Places, Ghosts and Their Relations, Tales, Sketches, Essays, Etc., Etc; A New Canadian Work
Pen Photographs of Celebrated Men and Noted Places Ghosts and Their Relations Tales Sketches Essays Etc Etc A New Canadian Work Author:Daniel Clark General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: Flint, Morton Subjects: Canadian literature Canadian essays Literary Collections / Canadian Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Canadian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of... more » the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SPUR G E ON. London is full of good preachers ; I speak of them in comparison to the ministers of the provincial, and rural districts. The metropolis gathers into its omnivorous maw, the intellectually great of the nation. Great minds, by a sort of centripetal power, gravitate toward each other. It is in the Capital, where the representative powers meet, and from thence pulsate in a never-ceasing stream the virus of scepticism, the mockery of materialism, the vapid sentimentalism of a depreciated Christianity, or the high-toned spirituality of a living gospel. Yet, in all these phases of modes of thought, the lower stratum of mind was to a great extent overlooked. The pulpit dissertations of the London divines, were generally of a kind not to excite the interest of a degenerate, and ignorant populace ; I speak of the lower classes. The beautiful and chaste style of a modern Blair, had no heart in it to throb in unison with theirs. The abstractions of Lynch, only delight the giant minds of the mammoth - city. The sermonizer who illustrates his dogmas by geology, mineralogy, botany, and astronomy, unless he has the descriptive, and analytical powers of Dick, the philosopher, or good "Old Humphrey," will never impress deeply the lethargic mind of the constant and ever bowed down son of toil, who struggles fiercely day by day for his daily bread. Spurgeon filled the breach. I had read the fir...« less