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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The pulpit (1860). (search)
et disdain with which practical men receive an argument on any topic drawn from the opinions of such a pulpit, shows the real place it fills in our great national school. Go home, I once heard a deacon, sixty years old, sitting as judge in a criminal court, say to a clergyman of his own denomination who offered a suggestion as to the amount of punishment proper for a convict,--Go home and write your sermons; we'll take care of the world. Such a sneer our city pulpits have earned. As Cardinal Wolsey wrote to the Pope, three centuries ago, This printing will give rise to sects; and besides other dangers, the common people at last may come to believe that there is not so much use for a clergy! They have come to believe so. They do believe rightly that there's no use in a clergy who echo their hearers' prejudices, mile-stones indicating exactly how far the old stage-coach has travelled; who eschew live questions: that is, truth of importance to the passing hour, lest taking sides on