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May 13, 1866
The Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa
What is this article about?
New York paper reports on Boston lawyer Henry F. Durant, partner of Rufus Choate, delivering an affectionate, memorable sermon in Boston, evoking St. John temper without legal sharpness.
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A Lawyer In The Pulpit.
A New York paper has a notice of Mr. Henry F. Durant, whose preaching in Boston and vicinity has had so much interest and effect. Speaking of one of his discourses it says:
It was remarkably affectionate, and though given in an off-hand way, with a lawyer's freedom, it showed no trace of the lawyer's sharp analysis, or keen discrimination or aggressive point. It was very much of the St. John temper in its feeling, though never ascending to his high argument for the gospel as the Eternal Word, the absolute truth, in which alone the weary soul can find perfect and unending rest.
* * It was, on the whole, a memorable occasion, to hear Rufus Choate's business partner, and one of the richest and most successful lawyers in Boston, preach. Preaching it surely was.
A New York paper has a notice of Mr. Henry F. Durant, whose preaching in Boston and vicinity has had so much interest and effect. Speaking of one of his discourses it says:
It was remarkably affectionate, and though given in an off-hand way, with a lawyer's freedom, it showed no trace of the lawyer's sharp analysis, or keen discrimination or aggressive point. It was very much of the St. John temper in its feeling, though never ascending to his high argument for the gospel as the Eternal Word, the absolute truth, in which alone the weary soul can find perfect and unending rest.
* * It was, on the whole, a memorable occasion, to hear Rufus Choate's business partner, and one of the richest and most successful lawyers in Boston, preach. Preaching it surely was.
What sub-type of article is it?
Religious Event
What keywords are associated?
Henry F Durant
Lawyer Preaching
Boston Sermon
Rufus Choate Partner
What entities or persons were involved?
Henry F. Durant
Rufus Choate
Where did it happen?
Boston
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Boston
Key Persons
Henry F. Durant
Rufus Choate
Outcome
memorable occasion
Event Details
A New York paper notices Mr. Henry F. Durant, Rufus Choate's business partner and a rich successful lawyer in Boston, preaching in Boston and vicinity with interest and effect. One discourse was affectionate, off-hand, with a lawyer's freedom but no sharp analysis, showing St. John temper in feeling.