EXPLANATIONS TO A HEARER.-PULPIT ARCHERY.
REACHERS differ in their manner. This is as it should be. To be true to nature, our style of
preaching should, perhaps, be as dissimilar as are our faces. Mine, I suppose, is no exception. My manner differs not only from others somewhat, but is not generally in harmony with itself: thus the style of to-night's discourse (after making a few explanations) will differ, likely, from that of last night; and that of to-morrow night, if spared, may be as unlike both as possible. Much depends upon circumstances. The same may be said of my replies, and other remarks before taking my text from night to night, and of exhortations in prayer-meetings. Such variations and inequalities are unavoidable. Hearers, not comprehending the causes, are perplexed, and provoked to criticism.
On my return to America in 1847, when ascending the Hudson River on board one of our steamers, I was looking over a volume of my Letters (which had been published in England), not having had an opportunity of doing so since it