Rev. Robert Newton Sledd
Aged: 65.4 years
DOCTOR SLEDD, almost from his entrance into the ministry, has served the church in its most important positions. His early educational advantages and subsequent studious habits have made him one of the best equipped ministers in theology in the Conference. He owes nothing to any music of voice, or shining and memoriter rhetoric. It is the edge of the scimeter and not jewels in the hilt that has won his position. He does not fling out ingots with the dirt of the mine clinging to them, but the milled and minted coin. His sermons are from choice material, and the patient tool fashions them. They are models in arrangement and development. His preparation is so thorough, and the command of his powers so supreme, that he seldom fails to keep his audience... Read More
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