tage. After depicting in soul-awakening terms a sinner of the first magnitude, he suddenly opened his eyes, and casting them full on the king, who sat opposite to him, he added in a voice of thunder, "Thou art the man." The effect was magical, confounding. When he had finished his discourse, he immediately went, and throwing himself at the feet of his sovereign, "Sire," said he, "behold at your feet one who is the most devoted of your servants; but punish him not, that in the pulpit he can own no other master than the King of Kings." |