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The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe (4); With Biographical Introductions, Portraits and Other Illustrations
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe With Biographical Introductions Portraits and Other Illustrations - 4 Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe Volume: 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / United States / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Social Science / Slavery Notes: This i... more »s a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XLI THE CLERTCAL CONFERENCE A Few days found Clayton in the city of , guest of the Rev. Dr. Gushing. He was a man in middle life, of fine personal presence, urbane, courtly, gentlemanly. Dr. Gushing was a popular and much-admired clergyman, standing high among his brethren in the ministry, and almost the idol of a large and flourishing church, a man of warm feelings, humane impulses, and fine social qualities; his sermons, beautifully written, and delivered with great fervor, often drew tears from the eyes of the hearers. His pastoral ministrations, whether at wedding or funeral, had a peculiar tenderness and unction. None was more capable than he of celebrating the holy fervor and self-denying sufferings of apostles and martyrs; none more easily kindled by those devout hymns which describe the patience of the saints ; but, with all this, for any practical emergency, Dr. Gushing was nothing of a soldier. There was a species of moral effeminacy about him, and the very luxuriant softness and richness of his nature unfitted him to endure hardness. He was known, in all his intercourse with his brethren, as a peacemaker, a modifier, and harmonizer. Nor did he scrupulously examine how much of the credit of this was due to a fastidious softness of nature which made controversy disagreeable and wearisome. Nevertheless, Clayton was at first charmed with the...« less