Brownlow north biography of martin henderson

Brownlow North - AD. For Brownlow North was a great doctrinal preacher.

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He was eloquent, but his eloquence consisted in the clear, powerful, and earnest statement, exposition, and application of great doctrines. He had not the thrilling pictorial power of Dr. Thomas Guthrie, the marvellous fecundity of illustration and the musical voice of Charles Spurgeon, the telling command of simile and analogy of William Arnot, or the exhaustless fund of anecdote of D.

With Brownlow North doctrine was everything. His style was terse and plain, but unadorned. He had no rounded periods, no graceful similes, no oratorical peroration.

THE MABROW OF MODEBN DIVINITY.

Often voice and words both failed him in the climax of his most earnest appeals. His power lay in the solemn and forcible statement of his doctrines, in his convincing proof, and in his thrilling application of them. And what is remarkable is that he derived his theology mainly for himself from a study of the Holy Scriptures. He drew it from no schoolmen, creeds, or confessions.

He preached therefore, not in the technical terminology of divines, but in the language of Scripture and of ordinary every-day life. Kenneth Moody-Stuart. On this account the chronological order has not been adhered to except in the opening chapters and those at the close.