. Chilvers
from committing such atrocities. As it is, they went and he collapsed.
Can anybody imagine John Wesley talking to his summer-evening crowd at
Dublin about 'nullifidian,' or quoting German? I will say nothing of
the Galilean preacher. The common people heard _Him_ gladly. He was
so simple and therefore so sublime. As Sir Edwin Arnold says:

The simplest sights He met--
The Sower flinging seed on loam and rock;
The darnel in the wheat; the mustard-tree
That hath its seeds so little, and its boughs
Widespreading; and the wandering sheep; and nets
Shot in the wimpled waters--drawing forth
Great fish and small--these, and a hundred such,
Seen by us daily, never seen aright,
Were pictures for Him from the page of life,
Teaching by parable.

Therein lay the sublimity of it all.

A little child, especially a little child of a distinctly restless and
mischievous propensity, is really a great help to a minister, and it is
a shame to deprive the good man of such assistance. It is only by such
help that some of us can hope to approximate to real sublimity. Lord
Beaconsfield used to say that, in making after-dinner speeches, he kept
his eye on the waiters. If they were unmoved, he knew that he was in
the realms of mediocrity. But when they grew excited and waved their
napkins, he knew that he was getting home. Lord Cockburn, who was for
some time Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain, when asked for the
secret of his extraordinary success at the bar, replied sagely, 'When I
was addressing a jury, I invariably picked out the stupidest-looking
fellow of the lot, and addressed myself specially to him--for this good
reason: I knew that if I convinced him I should be sure to carry all
the rest!' Dr. Thomas Guthrie, in addressing gatherings of ministers,
used to tell this story of Lord Cockburn with immense relish, and
earnestly commended its philosophy to their consideration. I was
reading the other day that Dr. Boyd Carpenter, formerly Bishop of Ripon
and now Canon of Westminster, on being asked if he felt nervous when
preaching before Queen Victoria, replied, 'I never address the Queen at
all. I know there will be present the Queen, the Princes, the
household, and the servants down to the scullery-maid, and _I preach to
the scullery-maid_.' Little children do not attend political dinners
such as Lord Beaconsfield adorned; nor Courts of Justice such as Lord
Cockburn addressed; nor Royal