" Aa DO man erer made a true poet without this talent,
one may venture to say that few without it have ever mode
eminent preachers. Destitale of this, the moot elaborate
addresses will be only random shot, which, if (hey hit, will
be more owing to chance than to skilL .Witfaont this
knowledge, warmed by Christian afiection, guided by Chris-
tian judgment, and tempered with Christian meekness, a
clergyman will not be able in the pulpit to accommodate
himself to the various wants of his hearers; without this
knowledge, In his private spiritual visits he will resemble
thoee empirics in medicine who have but one method of
treatment for all diaeasee, and who apply indiscriminately
the same pill and the same drop to the various dislempem
of all agee, seiea, and constitutions. This spirit of accom-
modation does not oonaiat in fiUst^ng, or abridging, or
softening, or disguising any truth ; but in applying truth in
•very form, communicating it in every direction, and divert-
ing it into every chauneL Some good men seem sadly to
foi^t that precepfc—maiin^ a differtntt — for they act aa
if all characten were exactly alike."

" Ton talk," said Hr. I^rrel, " as if you would wish cler-
gymen to depart from the ain^enees of truth, and preach
two goapela."
"Far from it," replied lb. Stanley, "bat though truth is



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