A Sermon, Preached in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, in Commemoration of Cornelius Stevenson, Esq., Senior Warden of the Same: On Sunday, 29th April, 1860 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Sermon, Preached in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, in Commemoration of Cornelius Stevenson, Esq., Senior Warden of the Same: On Sunday, 29th April, 1860

Biographers sketch only for effect. They rarely, aye never, reproduce the man as he is; they flatter, they suppress, they alter the perspective of character, and like the artist, who, to avoid the defect of an eye in his hero, painted a side view of his face, draw profiles where the full visage is wanted, and we only see one half of the character. Hence no mere worldly bio grapher has ever given us a likeness of the man whose life he professes to write. He brings before us the man in certain postures and relations, doing certain deeds, surrounded by certain influences, but the man's life, the inner soul work, the unseen motive power which keeps in action this marvellous machinery of being, he knows nothing of, does not disclose, and it never enters as a main and ruling factor into his valua tion of human character.

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