Alexandria Gazette

A Poet In A Pulpit.—Robert Montgomery the well known author of many sweet poems, chiefly of a religious cast, has joined the church, and will, it is said, be located in Liverpool.—According to the Journal of that city he carries with him into the pulpit the glittering language of poetry. He is about 27, and has a good delivery. The paper adds:

The gorgeousness of his diction—the rounded beauty of his sentences—the measured music of his declamation—the earnestness of his appeals—the poetic imagery of his discourses—have combined to make him exceedingly popular at St. Jude's (in the absence of Mr. McNeile) Many of his auditors, we suspect, admire him even when they lose the thread of a discourse enveloped in a maze of beautiful diction, taking it for granted that what they do not understand must be very admirable; like an old lady of our acquaintance, "'Tis all very fine, I believe it must be, because he's a poet."