He was a man of elegant bearing, and rolled out his ornate sentences in a somewhat theatrical tone, but the hushed audience drank in every syllable greedily.

The splendid and thoroughly evangelical sermons which he orated most carefully were exceedingly popular in those days, and even yet they are well worth reading as superb specimens of lofty, devout and resonant oratory.

On a very warm Sabbath evening I went into the business end of London to the "Weigh House Chapel" and heard Dr.Thomas Binney.

He was the leader of Congregationalism, as Melvill was of the Church of England.

On that warm evening the audience was small, but the discourse was prodigiously large.