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The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
wenty years, ranging through all the Bible for subjects, he had never preached from this parable of the Lord. I had often heard Dr. K. Spoken of as one of the most accomplished pulpit orators in this city, or perhaps of the South, and though, I confess, I am not a very good judge of sermonizing, I must say I was not disappointed. I don't remember ever to have heard a more impressive discourse, and one more replete with sound, wholesome, Gospel truth. It would have been well if many a rich Dives could have heard it. I never saw a more impressed congregation, for, in so large a house, with so large a congregation, every word of the speaker, however low, was heard distinctly, and for forty-five minutes he held the multitude in breathless silence. Dr. K. is, apparently, about 35 years old, light hair and complexion, very erect, hardly six feet, a flashing blue eye, high forehead, nose rather of the hawk-bill order, enunciation clear, distinct and chaste, and by no means offensive in g