The Weekly Butte Record

Mr. Spurgeon, in a lecture on 'Miracles,' recently delivered in London, declared that he had a very low opinion of those wooden boxes called pulpits. The only use he could imagine for pulpits was to remind the people of their latter end, by keeping before their eyes, the whole time of the service, a man half buried in a wooden box. [Laughter.] He thought they must have been invented for the benefit of some one whose legs were deformed. [Laughter.] He believed the power of oratory lay very much in the legs, and he liked to see a man, when preaching, walk about, as Demosthenes did, and roar out the truth like a lion. In Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle, by the way, there is no pulpit, but a gallery or platform, railed in, of some twenty five feet or more square, which the preacher occupies while addressing this congregation, and where he has ample room to move about.