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Excerpt from An Oration on the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Thomas G. Lowe, Delivered at Haywood's Church, Halifax County, on June 24th, 1882
He causes Moses and Aaron to appear together - the man of stammering speech and the man of ready eloquence. And then on through the ages as the persecuted and struggling and yet conquering Church needs the help of courageous hearts and high intellects - of men of rare but dissimilar powers, at God's ?at the right men appear. At one time it may be the logical powerful, eloq'uent, exalted Paul, so full of holy zeal and grand conceptions of conquests, or of the gifted, persuasive, enticing Apollos. At another time it is the golden-mouthed Chryses tom or the acute, eloquent and constructive Augustine. Then again it may be the robust, ardent, bold, able, organ-voiced Luther, or the subtile. Learned, vigorous, original, penetrating Calvin. Or coming down the centuries it is the tireless, llllcid evangelical, administrative Wesley, surpassing all men in the quality and quantity of his work since Paul completed the last othis great missionary journeys, or it is his gifted co-laborer, George ivhitfield who compassed land and sea in his sta'pen dons efforts to preach the blessed Gospel of the son of God and to bring men to the foot ofthe cross, and whose eloquence was ofa most extraordinary kind - vehement dramatic, pathetic, abound ing in simple narrative7 delivered with a voice of'nnexampled rich ness, melody and variety. Sir James Stephens, in his masterly article upon him, says he was a great and holy man, and as a preacher without a superior or a rival l God always has his men of consolation as well as the sons of thunder.
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