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The notes were copied out carefully during the week. This note-taking sometimes a slight embarrassment to the preacher was a great help to the hearer. As at least two sermons a week were thus noted, there must have been a great mass of manuscript before the thirty years were expired. Amongst those whose sermons she much enjoyed were Mr. Howels of Long Acre, Mr. Harington Evans, and Mr.
Besides these there were youths and maidens, of rougher though not less honest mould some grave, others gay, but all at that time orderly and attentive, while their leader gave forth the beautiful hymn which begins: "O God of Bethel! by whose hand Thy people still are fed," and followed it with a selection of prayers from the English Liturgy, and a discourse from a volume of sermons.
Poor dear Luke, again, is said to be painting lean frescoes for the Something-or-other-Kirche at Munich; and the vicar, under the name of Father Stylites, of the order of St. Philumena, is preaching impassioned sermons to crowded congregations at St. George's, Bedlam. How can I extricate them from that?
One day she was going to church to hear a sermon from a great preacher, and she begged the Shifty Lad, as the neighbours called him from the tricks he played, to come with her. But he only laughed and declared that he did not like sermons, adding: 'However, I will promise you this, that the first trade you hear named after you come out from church shall be my trade for the rest of my life.
Why, SHE WRITES MY SERMONS FOR ME OFTEN, and a very good job she makes of them! 'She can do anything. 'She can do that. The little rascal has the very trick of the trade. But, mind you, Smith, not a word about it to her, not a single word! 'Not a word, said Smith. 'Look there, said Mr. Swancourt. 'What do you think of my roofing? He pointed with his walking-stick at the chancel roof,
Fletcher's correspondence was an unusually heavy one; his letters make quite as spiritual reading as his sermons, yet he gave the choicest of reasons for not writing to one man who expected a letter: "Tell Mr. Keen," he wrote to Whitefield, "I am a letter in his debt, and postpone writing it till I have had such a sight of Christ as to breathe His love through every line."
The truth is, it is a complete mistake to make the children's sermon so different from other sermons as to create the impression that it is the only utterance from the pulpit to which they are expected to listen.
It was always a bright, brave, proud face she held up to the world except in church; there it was different. I used to preach my sermons, I believe, mostly for her but never so that she could suspect as bravely and as cheerily as I could.
Whitelaw, some vague consciousness that in that one act of his life, and in the whole tenor of his life, he had not exactly shaped his conduct according to that model which the parson had held up for his imitation in certain rather prosy sermons, indifferently heard, on the rare occasions of his attendance at the parish church.
But the heralds of the Lord of Hosts quailed not before the servants of an earthly commonwealth: they returned rebuke for rebuke, charged Cromwell with an unjustifiable assumption of power, and departed from the conference unpunished and unabashed. By the public the sermons at Blackfriars were considered as explanatory of the views and principles of the Anabaptists in the house.
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