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Updated: June 27, 2025
How this was to be gained I knew not; for it shelved out abruptly from the extreme summit, overhanging the abyss, and presenting an appearance which I cannot more properly render than by comparing it to the sounding-boards placed over the pulpits of our English churches. Still I was resolved to persevere to the close, and I but too unhappily succeeded." Again Wacousta paused.
Outdoor preaching was what he loved best. He felt 'cribbed, cabined, and confined' within any walls. 'Mounts, he said, 'are the best pulpits, and the heavens the best sounding-boards. 'I always find I have most power when I speak in the open air a proof to me that God is pleased with this way of preaching. 'Every one hath his proper gift. Field-preaching is my plan.
Above the strepitant racket of the streets, he heard the harsh chimes of Trinity at noonday strong jags of clangour hurled against the great sounding-boards of buildings; drifting and dying away down side alleys. There was no soft music of appeal in the bronze volleying: it was the hoarse monitory voice of rebuke.
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