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human nature which furnished him in the pulpit with the double equipment of genial sympathy and relentlessness of a two-edged sword in his eloquent renunciation of sin and the sinner there must be some few living now who recall his famous sermon from the text -- "When will the Sabbath be gone that we may sell corn"? in which he took occasions to lash the students for all their violations of the at that time Puritan Sunday code -- What force and genius must there be in a sermon from the text -- "Whoso drinkest of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst" --that has lingered with a compelling power in the mind and boundary, rich in every sower of life and culture and fascinating experience -- This same nature of Prof. T's yielded as years went on to human timidity, and distrust of the old finalities for he said to me in an informal call of sympathy when I find myself getting dusky in doubt and depression I get to work to help some body
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Not to be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. Transcription and commentary copyright 1998 by Martha Nell Smith, Laura Elyn Lauth, and Lara Vetter, all rights reserved Maintained by Rebecca Mooney <rnmooney@umd.edu> Last updated on January 25, 2008 |
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