Leas Gliding and more Carring.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 32, 8 January 1885, Page 4

Leas Gliding and more Carring.

Lord Aivanley.il ad been dining on .one occasion with .Mr Grevillc, whose diriin»- room had .been -newly and splendidly decorated. The meal was, however, a very meagre and indifferent one. Some of the guests were flattering their host upon his magfiificence, taste, and hospitality. ; *.', For. my own parti" interposed ;A\vanley, ** 1 would rather have seen less gUdingand more .carving. 11 ' The like preference. has arisen m our! mind^wheni hearingor reading i rhetorical discourses with little .or ; no i Gospel m them. '' Fine bones, -but where shall we look fpr the, , marrow, and fatness ? Grand expressions, : but 'what flo they express ? ,A. ser~; mon should be like a meal ; it should! " sri 'eVery in'starfce feed tile soul with ! heavenly meat. "Merle words,, how-; ever, well arranged,,' can '- never do ! this ; there "mu^t be sound . exposi- i tion and solid doctrine,or the ' Hungry \ will look up dispairingly and depart j sorrowing. The gilder may be very well dismissed. His art dcs--troys its own' ends when' tHe gilt is ; overdone ; what we want is the car- ; veiyand a noble joint before him into which, he may cut without f fear. • blowers it you please, but fruit also. ! Gilding m its place : but ten times ! as much carving, or we pray thee ■ have us excused. — G. IT. ; &purgeon. \