the judicious. He considers the advice of Polonius to his son
to be as applicable to preachers as to travelers--

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

"In his pulpit he is no wrangling polemic, but a genuine Bible
Christian, deeply impressed himself with the momentous truths he so
earnestly presses upon others. His mind is so imbued, so saturated, if I
may hazard the expression, with scriptural knowledge, that from that
rich store-house, he is ever ready to bring forth _treasures, new and
old_, and to apply them wisely, temperately, and seasonably.

"Though he carefully inculcates universal holiness in all his
discourses, yet his practical instructions are constantly deduced from
those fundamental principles of Christianity which are the root and life
and spirit of all goodness. Next to a solid piety, and a deep
acquaintance with the Bible, he considers it of prime importance to a
clergyman to be thoroughly acquainted with human nature in general, and
with the state of his own parish in particular. The knowledge of both
will alone preserve him from preaching too personally so as to hurt, or
too generally so as not to touch.

"He is careful not to hurry over the prayers in so cold, inattentive,
and careless a manner, as to make the audience suspect he is saving
himself, that he may make a greater figure in delivering the sermon.
Instead of this, the devout, reverential, and impressive manner in which
he pronounces the various parts of the Liturgy, best prepares his own
heart, and the hearts of his people, to receive benefit from his
discourse. His petitions are delivered with such sober fervor, his
exhortations with such humble dignity, his thanksgiving with such holy
animation as carry the soul of the hearer along with him. When he
ascends the pulpit, he never throws the liturgical service into the back
ground by a long elaborate composition of his own, delivered with
superior force and emphasis. And he pronounces the Lord's prayer with a
solemnity which shows that he recollects its importance and its author.

"In preaching, he is careful to be distinctly heard, even by his
remotest auditors, and by constant attention to this important article,
he has brought his voice, which was not strong, to be particularly
audible. He affixes so much importance to a distinct delivery, that he
smilingly told me he suspected the grammatical definition of a
substantive was originally meant for a clergyman, whose great obj