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A PREACHER TO THE TIMES 
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8, 1549, he illustrates a point he is mak- 
ing in this wise: ‘This was not much 
unlike a bargain that I heard of late 
should be betwixt two friends for a horse; 
the owner promised the other should 
have the horse if he would; the other 
asked the price; he said twenty nobles. 
The other would give him but four 
pound. ‘The owner said he should not 
have him then. ‘The other claimed the 
horse, because he said he should have 
him if he would. ‘Thus this bargain be- 
came a Westminster matter; the lawyers 
got twice the value of the horse; and 
when all came to all, two fools made an 
end of the matter.”” One can imagine 
the winks that passed even among his 
stolid hearers under the ‘‘ Shrowds.’’ 
Latimer knew how to relieve the tedium 
of standing an hour or more while lis- 
tening to his outdoor sermons. No 
preacher in England had so inexhaus- 
tible a stock of ‘‘merry’’ tales fresh 
from his own keen observation or from 
incidents going on in the ‘daily life of the 
common people. ‘Thus he tells of the 
gentlewoman who went to St. Thomas 
of Acres to hear the sermon, “‘because 
she never failed of a good nap there.” 
Frequently he draws an apt illustration 
from bis own personal history, as in the 
account of his bringing up, and of his 
examination for heresy when he heard 
the pen of a concealed reporter scratch- 
ing behind the arras. He had a famous 
knack at arousing his hearers’ curiosity 
as to what was coming next, but he 
never failed to satisfy it. We have an 
example in the only “‘Sermon of the 
Plough ’’ that is preserved: “‘ And now 
I would ask a strange question; who is 
the most diligentest bishop and _ prelate 
in all England, that passeth all the rest in 
doing his office? I can tell, for I know 
him who it is; I know him well. But 
now I think I see you listening . and 
hearkening that I should name him. 
There is one that passeth all the other, 
and is the most diligent prelate and 
preacher in all England. And will ye 
know who it is? Iwill tell you: it is 
the devil. He is the most diligent 
preacher of all other; he is never out of 
his diocess; he is never from his cure; 
ye shall never find him unoccupied; he 
is ever in his parish; he keepeth resi- 
dence at all times; ye shall never find 
him out of the way, call for him when 
you will he is ever at home; the dili- 
gentest preacher in all the realm; he is 
ever at his plough; he is ever applying 
his business, ye shall never find him idle, 
I warrant you; he walketh around from 
place to place, and ceaseth  not.’’ 
When we remember that plurality of 
livings, non-residence and shameful ne- 
glect of their duties were notorious 
among the clergy of Latimer’s time, we 
can appreciate the pungency of such 
home-thrusts which abound in_ his 
sermons. 
No wonder that Latimer got a_hear- 
ing; he was a man with a message; and 
while his courtly auditors were com- 
pelled to listen by his very audacity, his 
sermons were full of inspiring and con- 
solatory thoughts for the poor and 
humble, and the common people heard 
him gladly. His simplicity, his human-, 
ity, his quaintness, his homely _ illus- 
trations, his very garrulousness, helped 
make him one of the most popular 
preachers that England has ever had. 
But his popularity never spoiled him; it 
was a popularity that brought him not 
place and ease and king’s favors, but the 
martyr’s palm. His last words were 
prophetic: ‘‘Be of good comfort, 
Master Ridley, and play the man; we 
shall this day light such a candle by 
God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall 
never be put out.’’ And so he was 
wafted heavenward in his chariot of 
flame. We may smile at many of his 
conceits, and think some of his expres 
sions too rude for ears polite; but we 
can only reverence his honesty, his fear- 
lessness, his loyalty to truth and good- 
ness. He was one of earth’s heroes 
who follow the blood-stained _ track, 
*¢ Toiling up new Calvarys ever with the cross 
that turns not back.” 
He was the kind of ‘“‘preacher to the 
times’’ that we need at the present day. 
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