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Show 'THE REV. Jdlt Sl'UROEOK OS"' I TUlivSTi'LE, f$V THE XEW SCUOOK' I'REACIIEliS. It is time that ;the advocates of the language of Shakespeare, Hilton and Cowpcr, Temple, Swift, aiid BoliDgbroke, Gibbon, , Robertson, and Jlmno, should' rise, speak,-and put nil end to the nuisance nui-sance We are; much gratified to fiftd that great: master.! of genuine Ehglisli, Mr: Spnrgeon lifting np hls strong hand against the harpy invnsipn. Ou his first t appearance in Exeter hall, after his return' frorn the continent, jn the course or an : admirable seruiouhc vkltcd it audits authors with the following thundcrhlasti "There 1$ much temper hero, but there is i very much also of good comman sense.- 1 would we had another Job, to chastise the high-sounding language of modern theologians. There are starling up in our midst men who, if they are not heretics here-tics in doctrine, are aliens in speech. They are men described by the old preachers, who say, 'Alarkl' and there Is nothing to mark, and who shout, 'Observer and there is nothing to observe,, except the want of everything, that is worth" observing. We fcaiwi'ii4iticocMiuJft hts cnmmonJangnag'e- of;'TnatikInd,,butiinust fleeds ndbpylie jargpii ; of :CarlysIe,-who sets lingbage en - ita-head,?id pnts tlie last word firsts Tjiesemcn Imost. needs aiake'the'Egnlh language a slave to the German '-Hjie gloripus, gfand old Saxon nnisttrticklo to their bercsics' and conceal the depths bf;."their falsehoods, X pray Ood tlfe. time taly come wherilsbme man" may unmask them, when call these winjl-. bags.may hjs'Jreiit, and nil these' bladders maybe,.'prickcd;,fflien,iir teachers "hive anythTiig to tcHus.theymay dellverftheni-selves dellverftheni-selves iso tliat' alf may-iindcrstflrid. If thoy cannbt.nse:plilr lan oa let their tongues go to School Until they havo leanied ifc VTbTe Is Something sft enticing entic-ing and ycf '& jlinuy in the, tnojn1 theological theo-logical sclitof'iaCl fcfcl .iibiielrajucd to warn yoii'.ymitanjly agaiikt tw' Its niysteryrSwriiifty, RnjtS vlepth is pouipotLSgjoWliw,'' Tl!g!4s1Kjit5oIogy in It; it tt'Uiia liceJ6.grfcfal the .want of f?icyJtnowttffi.V man, with an SttjjrMpitttrkt mjVTrftiimpleto in erery JcjyetpT(gyi;uiicli he should vBtfhifiFV uj'dntrlJ'i?jcai:h' cliristians fat U.ihgy JjuAEwftcd at the feet oriWuthjiSeen Btfke that a new licor(3k,)'tcrdtcd; that the Old phratck'Silfff weSfifvgjiSea ar"e Ait of dat"A:U creM.ikcn nj. Well, what rtumiWlo toAranviseatre ami his feI'aw-8ngWervo"u"intw.hcrcv-c? yon meet t'-tMKrfe:CJic'ir' dftcicns Job did Zophar--lf55tUt thenftj, their" language to plijKVtd remhem; that the best thins'tVj$cll ns-ife only what the fishes uMhfctett Or the.ifeVls of the n(r knew rieffJifKitnT, atitLthat tlieir grandest dlscovri are but pl-itilmles which every dRIuV'liaS knorcfore, or elso they aret JifJrjff'i thatr bjight to tio sceutrfTr6m'thcivth.',fwV Stent!- . . -v . ' ' j i- - |