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Show - "TmocT'rr.Eicnrxnr' Da. Pabkeb, of London, the well known Congregatlonallst preacher, Is evidently an extremis!. This time his eccentricity takes the direction di-rection of .short sermons. Last Sun-day,nt Sun-day,nt the City Timple, he preached one of his 'condensed dlscourseSv lasting exactly sixty seconds, Jnto which he crowded ICO words. Ills subject was the use of Intoxicating wine- at the sacramental service. He said. It Is high tinM that Intoxicating wine jJioolJ bo banished fcom, the sacramental service. It bts cften driven men to long abandoned habit of inteniperanea. I am also opposed to the use of vile concoctions by which In some Instances Intoxicating "wine has been displaced, and this objection to the makaahifts of tho extreme teetotallers tee-totallers is not surprising, as a certain pastor f credited with the employment employ-ment of zoedone for the purpose." lie advocated tlie useof water, and throughout was In unlon with the faith -aud practice of the Latter-day Latter-day Saints, so far as relates to what should be partaken of in commemoration commemo-ration of the atonement of our Lird. The one minute sermon s slciujs, too great an extreme cyirevity, although al-though tlie laug drawn out discourses discour-ses are as a rulo'cqually ot jectlon-able. jectlon-able. Some preachers annoy their heircrs by pissing too many camping camp-ing places, where they mlfht settle down profitably. When a speaker In any way announces, by word or minner, that he is about la cease, tw a rule helors his hoU on his audience, audi-ence, becaue he has created an expectation ex-pectation aud ilUpcilod Jt, and the connection, between the preacher and the congregation Is thus broken. It takes some time to aljiiit the cojpling3, If It can b done t all. As thoughlfjlpess Increases among the people there Is a t ro portlonatc dl-tarte for the whirlwind style of preaching, in which physically physic-ally expressed vc.hemcnce plays a prominent art, as It is not necessary neces-sary 'tint real, soulful earnestness should be always in that way exhibited. ex-hibited. It Interferef nlth the menial digteUcn of uhat is being enunciated. The cbitf effort of the speaker ohould be to have forcible, useful aud benetlnal thoughts to present to his listeners, making language In which to cl'tliM tliemmen.l secondary. second-ary. Tlit mi ud that Is a rccH'taUe of truth .will g enerally flnJ a method of expressing It- There Is oousiderible in the lemaik once made by one of our home missionaries in this Blake. Hesald. "A good many who perform the duty of preaching lateral their bearers that the have not language with which to express their ideas. With me It is the rever-e. If I had the ideas I think I could find words with which, to explain them " .Ys ruU. it is easier lor a inau to admit a poverty of words In preference to aspir-eness of Ideas. jrtnni3-plehavevordsfeiiough jrtnni3-plehavevordsfeiiough with which to express most)? tlie truthswith which they have made themelv conversant. Hardly anything is more disagreeable dis-agreeable In a public speaker than alTectatlon, and v lien It enters the domain of iraltat'n; ?me alle model, it becomes poeithely oijec-lionable oijec-lionable to those who detect it. Thce who do n-it perceive it feel that then) Is something wrong, but as It is unjefi nahle to them tbey are unable to Ml eaactlv uiiat It U Itis theunnaturalpen which ere ates the unpleasant ImrcsIon, wltich Js akin to What would be caused by the sight of an artificial Ro-nin nosa on a face for'which nature intended one of an entirely uiDV rent size and mould. In thi days when Daniel Webster Web-ster was at lbs height of his l!ul-arily l!ul-arily as an orato-, scores of spindle shanked, whistle-voiced, stripling attorneys imitated, his heavy, measured, meas-ured, ponderous style, the sjectscle Impres.ing sine, perhaps, much as woold tlie aspect o a monkey at-'emptlng at-'emptlng to inanlpnlsle; i sledge hammer. All this imitation being unnatural, graJually died out. |