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Excerpt from A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of Mr. John E. Emerson, as Pastor of the Whitefield Congregational Church and Society in Newburyport, Tuesday Evening, January 1, 1850: Together With the Charge to the Pastor, Right Hand of Fellowship, and Address to the People
One secret Of Robert Hall's power, was the masterly workings of his reasoning faculty in elucidating the sub jcet before him. With a penetration which enabled him to see through all the ramifications Of his subject, even to the minutest fibres with a grasp Of mind that enabled him to summon before his mental vision, all the arguments, proofs, and bearings of the truth under consideration with a power of abstraction which fastened his attention upon every point, until from the very intensity Of the gaze his soul was on fire with the themerhe was prepared to'go before his audience, and overpower them by the weight of his arguments, and the force Of his conclusions. Nor were his reasonings, profound as they were, dry, cold and Spec ulative, as is sometimes the case with other writers. They came warm from the heart. They were charged, as it were, with emotion and passion, and though sometimes fierce, were often solemnly impressive. At all events, says one, serving to Show that strong argument may be worked in fire, as well as in frost.
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