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age. The risen, ascended Saviour was represented as 

 coming up from the empire of death, having seized the 

 tyrant upon his throne ; and then as triumphantly pass- 

 ing the portals of heaven, amidst the acclamations of 

 heaven's shining hosts. The description was so vivid 

 as to be almost overwhelming. The audience, which 

 had just before seemed like a terror-stricken multi- 

 tude, almost within the very grasp of the destroyer, 

 now exhibited countenances relumed with returning 

 smiles. The whole assembly was actually in a com- 

 motion. As the speaker poured forth, in strains of 

 highly pathetic eloquence, the most awful and de- 

 lightful truths of God's word, and struck at every turn 

 some sympathetic chord in the hearts of his audience, 

 it really seemed as if the very fountains of feeling 

 throughout the whole assembly were broken up." 



"I wish," says the Rev. Charles Giles, "I could 

 give the reader his sermon, preached at the General 

 Conference of 1820, with all its beauty, power, and 

 eloquence; but it is beyond my reach. Near the close, 

 as he was bringing the strong points in his discourse 

 together, that their united strength might impress 

 the assembly effectually, he produced a climax the 

 most sublime and thrilling I ever heard. He ascended 

 from thought to thought in his towering theme, like 

 an eagle soaring and wending up the distant sky. I 

 heard with admiration, and almost trembled to see 

 him rising to such a fearful eminence. Several times 

 I imagined that he could go no higher, but he would 

 suddenly disappoint me. At the very point where 

 imagination fixed his return he seemed to inhale new 

 fire, and soared away on the wing of thought again; 

 then higher and higher still, till it seemed that his in- 

 spiration would become his chariot, and by the grasp 



