uits him Humberston is a fine living; but his talents are wasted
there. He preached for the first time in London last year, and made a
considerable sensation. This year he has been much out of town. He has
no church here as yet.

"I hope to get him one. Carr is determined that he shall be a Bishop.
Meanwhile he preaches at--Chapel tomorrow; come and hear him with me,
and then tell me frankly--is he eloquent or not?"

Darrell had a prejudice against fashionable preachers; but to please
Colonel Morley he went to hear George. He was agreeably surprised by
the pulpit oratory of the young divine. It had that rare combination of
impassioned earnestness with subdued tones, and decorous gesture, which
suits the ideal of ecclesiastical eloquence conceived by an educated
English Churchman

"Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full."

Occasionally the old defect in utterance was discernible; there was
a gasp as for breath, or a prolonged dwelling upon certain syllables,
which, occurring in the most animated passages, and apparently evincing
the preacher's struggle with emotion, rather served to heighten the
sympathy of the audience. But, for the most part, the original stammer
was replaced by a felicitous pause, the pause as of a thoughtful
reasoner or a solemn monitor knitting ideas, that came too quick, into
method, or chastening impulse into disciplined zeal. The mind of the
preacher, thus not only freed from trammel, but armed for victory, came
forth with that power which is peculiar to an original intellect--the
power which suggests more than it demonstrates. He did not so much
preach to his audience as wind himself through unexpected ways into the
hearts of the audience; and they who heard suddenly found their hearts
preaching to themselves. He took for his text: "Cast down, but not
destroyed;" and out of this text he framed a discourse full of true
Gospel tenderness, which seemed to raise up comfort as the saving,
against despair as the evil, principle of mortal life. The congregation
was what is called "brilliant"--statesmen, and peers, and great authors,
and fine ladies--people whom the inconsiderate believe to stand little
in need of comfort, and never to be subjected to despair. In many an
intent or drooping farce in that brilliant congregation might be read
a very different tale. But of all present there was no one whom the
discourse so moved as a woman who, chancing to pass that way, had
followed the thr