Show THE OLD TIME the preacher talked plainly and hearers made known their sentiments Senti meats the people did not come simply to be taught they came to be interested to be moved to hear evildoers even if in high places denounced unsparingly with the gradual awakening of mens minds which came with the sixteenth century the shower of the pulpit increasing amazingly the nation was divided into two schools of thought the exponents of each side endeavored to persuade pers uada by means of the pulpit while they coerced by means of the stake and the prison have at them master latimer have at them cried the people who filled SL pauls churchyard to the preacher as they made a passage far him to reach the crogg they had no idea of being listeners only passive buckets to be poured into they intended to show which way their sympathies went in the great question then agitating england to mark approval or disapproval of sentiments delivered thus when shortly afterward bishop bonner was preaching from the same spot somo one in the crowd threw a dagger at him as an emphatic mark of disapprobation it is easy to note in the language of the sermons of that time how unrestrained the preacher was latimer when he was preaching scattered denunciations epithets invective and sarcasm about him in a way which a modem audience would not appreciate he attacks the judges for unfairness for taking of bribes the citizens of london for their selfishness their greedy extravagance their brother he cries shall die in the streets of cold he shall lie sick at their door and perish for hunger I 1 the ladies before him are reproved for their vanity laying out their hair in tussocks socks and t lifts indoor the general people he has such epithets as you velvet coats you up skips you ho dipoles you doddy pecks the preachers of that aime could moreover employ that dangerous weapon humor which a modern per acher had beat avoid the people then were used to humor anil understood it latimer was preaching once on the want of interest shown in church services and blaming the clergy for it he said A neighbor met a gentlewoman of london and said mistress whither boest thou marry sal she 1 I am going to st thomas of acres to the I 1 could not sleep last and I 1 am going now thither I 1 never failed of good sleep there sometimes hia humor is bolder still preaching one day of elias stopping the rain ho suddenly stopped and said think there be some elias about at this time which stop poth the rain we have not had a good while temple bar |