 He had a strange utterance in the pulpit, a kind of skreigh that I never heard the like. Many times I thought he would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ ; he was never in his right element but when he was commending him.  Dictionary of National Biography - Page 9edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1841 - 602 pages
...He had a strange utterance in the pulpit, a kind of skreigh that I never heard the like. Many times I thought he would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ ; he was never in his right element but when he was commending him. He would have fallen asleep in... | |
 | Robert Wodrow - 1843 - 544 pages
...alwayes reading and studying ! Mr William Tullidaff said to me, that many times he thought Mr Rutherford would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Christ, the Rose of Sharon ! Then he was as a fish in the ocean, he was never in his right element... | |
 | Mrs. A. Stuart Menteath - 1852 - 284 pages
...strange utterance in the pulpit — a kind of skreigb that I have never heard the like. Many times I thought he would • have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ. He was never in his right element but when he was commending him. He would have fallen asleep in bed... | |
 | 1861 - 1350 pages
...strange utterance in the pulpit, a kind of tkreigh that I never heard the like. Many times I thought that he would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ ; he was never in his right element but when be was commending him. He would have fallen asleep in... | |
 | 1867 - 396 pages
...He had a strange utterance in the pulpit, a kind of SHREIGH that I never heard the like. Many times I thought he would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ. He was never in his right element but when he was commending Him. One day, when preaching in Edinburgh,... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1875 - 602 pages
...He had a strange utterance in the pulpit, a kind of skreigh that I never heard the like. Many times I thought he would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ. He was never in his right element but when he was commending him. He would have fallen asleep in bed... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1887 - 300 pages
...pulpit ; a kind of skriech (shriek or scream) that I never heard the like of. Many times I thought lie would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ, and he never was in his right element but when he was commending him." * An English merchant, during... | |
 | Samuel Rutherford - 1891 - 780 pages
...friends), he had a strange utterance — a kind of skreigh, that I never heard the like. Many times I thought he would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ." An English merchant said of him, even in days when controversy had sorely vexed him and distracted... | |
 | Alexander Taylor Innes - 1892 - 372 pages
...aye his face upward and heavenward." " Hi' had a strange utterance in the pulpit, a kind of skreiijh that I never heard the like." " Many a time I thought...the pulpit when he came to speak of Jesus Christ." We can still si e him — the little fair man, with the falsetto in his voice, and the quick heavenward... | |
 | James Bell Henderson - 1898 - 102 pages
...speaking of the preaching of the saintly Rutherford, said that " many a time he thought Mr Rutherford would have flown out of the pulpit when he came to speak of Christ, the Rose of Sharon." An apparent desire to fly out of the pulpit, and at the same time to keep... | |
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