GREAT MEN'S BODIES
And this—after Chalmers—greatest preacher Europe has seen in this century, who said: "I think I am bound never to preach a sermon without preaching to sinners. I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach;"—was his a delicate, half-developed, hap-hazard, neglected sort of a body? Look him over a little and see. Power—broad, square, deep—written all over him. The mighty chest that made his clear, vigorous voice go easily to all those six thousand and more who packed that Tabernacle Sundays; the thick neck; the set, determined, forceful-looking head and eye; the general massiveness; and everything he did and did not do showing that that is just what he was—massive. Another of the great divines like Luther, Chalmers, Guthrie, Beecher, Hall, Moody, specially fitted by nature to deal with great assemblies, and move them as he liked.
PROFESSOR JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1809–1895)
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