PRINCIPAL G. A. SMITH AT WINCHESTER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 9

PRINCIPAL G. A. SMITH AT WINCHESTER.

/ On Thursday,. July. ,21'/. Prinoipal; G." A: Smith" paid ..a i ;visit to: Winchester,'. *and deliveredj itnijer the auspices of the Diocesan: Society for.the Promotion 1 Of: Higher Religious; En'owledgii,. in-. the Guildhall,: a ip.ctuj.'e on ."Old .-Testament" Prophecy."■.-jrhe-^reeCliurch'minister's ,of Hampshire we re ' invited. The; lectiire; was followed .very '.elbsely, and frequently' evoked applause. : The following. ate'-, a few passage,s;fro: n a deliverance lasting; 'an, hour, and ..iiiinversallyv described aa "brilliant" : . .. ■■' . -'.' "-' ,"you dp fiifit ciaP,. a .child's! face clban after it lias been-washed ; if ,it still smelt, of soap, and yoi i do not call a sermon •finished or -clean if; it: still smelt of criticism.- J ':V X'M : ■ ••'.'•

, "I know of. nb_ preacher whoso sermons T liavb '.stiidied'who.has more of this spirit than {those of Dr. Puse.v, of Oxford, aii'd 1 bj,w ulways it. was because cii' his close,, intehsej'and: .original' study;7,!more;. especially -of thb- " minor prophets,, -that. he carried -. so ' much"; of the prophetic , note into-'his sermons, to his '■' ; . > • "At '.a/times-phe'nj.the,prophetic note has .so.. largel J- died . out .of modern preaching; it :l>i ilioves us all to get-back to, the fellow.shSp ; :.and the; sympathyjof" the, great .-pro; j>hets, vthat in us, their note'might be.restored.'' .' - . ■; "Jeremiah 'ks a projectile swung,againstt the wtjfrld'.w'it-h a! force not. his own, and' on mission from "which; all : his sense of li'is ;own gifts revolted."'-' "Modern',thought, is in need of a book ! which will. tell"ivith exactness tlio, triie history. of,i the> idea of vicarious ' suffer-': ing, .: When iflidV men l ., begin: .to" learn that- some of them suffered for others?, Probably - as far'-back as hutnan. i>xperience wentij'; v. yet , the lesson was .' a terribly 'slow .one, arid its full meaning came-.late. n \(• '; ; •' ! •The Bishop of :"VVincJiest-er ) ;;\vho- f pre--;sided, spoke'.; of. Dr. Smith as "one of my oldest frSbnds."' : '. ; ;.-•' .