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volume of remarkable sermons. The preacher takes the life of

Abraham, and in a spirit very different from the critical manner which we are accustomed to find in his countrymen, treats it with

a view to edification. The plainness and freedom of his speech, the homeliness and force of his illustrations, the general directness

and vigour of his method, are such as one does not often meet with. Dogmatism, political preaching, the stiffness of pulpit diction, straining after effect, are the things which Pastor Funcke specially abhors. To describe him in short, we should say that he was a German Spurgeon.