Show KINDEIIQAETEN PREACHING There is a preacher in New York named Rev C H TTNDALL who illustrates his sermons on the kindergarten plan When ho preaches on temperance to a crowd a fold f-old soaks on Brome street he has a curtain along the front of the platform behind which he has Japanese serpents and whilst depicting a special form of vice he darts down and produces a lot of forkedtongued snakes Ho has blocks representing all the sins denounced in the decaloguo such as lying stealing covetousness etc which he sets around the stage and talks about t Among the properties of this holy show are frogs rats dry bones and various chemical and mechanical contrivances to arrest the attention and 11 LEthe LE-the thoughts of his hearers His thought congregations congre-gations are not such as sit on velvet oush ions with high backs up town nor do they get any 20000 per annum preaching Perhaps Per-haps they do not hear such fine modulations modula-tions of voice such elegantly rounded eleganty sen tencei or see the studied postures and graceful gesticulations that belong to the pulpits of profound theological expounders 1 expound-ers They are the tough element adrift on the wicked world who have almost forgotten for-gotten if they ever knew the sweet and peaceful influences of home For them the cal to salvation however earnest and eloquent elo-quent would fall listlessly If i were not accompanied with many a thump on tho goed book and many a scream of uplifted voice The Rev Mr TINDALL idea Is evidently evident-ly 1 patterned after that of the modern stage What the steam fire engine and the tank are to dramas of our day he imitates i imi-tates in his ministerial realism which the orthodox divine would be apt to characterize character-ize as sensational Thus one New York clergyman of Broome street in a recent sermon preaching from the text Ho I that oatereth not by tho door into the sheepfold but climbeth up some other way the tame Is a thief and P robber produced a moral effect in a way that must have startled the congregation At given points he produced different sized ladders as the kinds by which some folks hoped to climb to heaven and finally whilst he wa talking about the true JACoBS ladder that reaches to heaven the sexton who was on the roof shoved a long ladder through I ho skylight to the pulpit below Mr TENDALL argues that as the Masto preached with a little child in his arms as a text or waited upon a table as an example > of humility he himself is quite justified in using homely and visible illustrations to enforce lessons of religion upon untutored minds |