This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...Mr. Taylor gives proof that there is a clever composition within the craninm. He has intellect, judgment and religious thriftiness. There is nothing of narrowness about him. He devises huge plans, and works up to them. There is somewhat of the breadth of the Church statesman in him. Each year will find him stronger. He ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...Mr. Taylor gives proof that there is a clever composition within the craninm. He has intellect, judgment and religious thriftiness. There is nothing of narrowness about him. He devises huge plans, and works up to them. There is somewhat of the breadth of the Church statesman in him. Each year will find him stronger. He has success. He has a presence engaging, graceful and dignified, His body is in fine proportion, well knit and firmly poised. He would pull the beam at one hundred and sixty pounds. He is a discriminating student. His sermons are charged with independent investigation, lucidity of arrangement and the propulsion of cumulative reasoning. He is animated in the pulpit, using gesture. The whirl of a thought from the brain seems to leave the body in the easy but striking posture seen in classic statuary when the javelin is sped. it is the eloquence of action. Mr. Taylor has had noteworthy success in the erection of churches. The sermon, well conceived and forcefully delivered, is only an aliquot part of his prowess and powers. The genins for affairs is his. Among the people he has the magnetism of leadership and the gift of arousing the communities till the people have a mind to work. God's synagogues are the honors seen of men to his praise. An all-rounded Methodist minister, and of priceless value to the Chnrch. He is the son of Robert Carter and Mary Evelyn Taylor, and was born at Burwell's Bay, Isle of Wight county, Virginia, on May 16, 1815. His father, son of Travis Taylor, was born in Isle of Wight county, Virginia; his mother, daughter of Rev. James D. Edwards, was born in Surry county, Virginia. On his mother's side, six ministers have been furnished to Virginia Methodism. He was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ...
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