CHAPTER XIV.
SOME FAMOUS AMERICAN PREACHERS.
_The Alexanders .-- Dr.Tyng .-- Dr.Cox .-- Dr.Adams .-- Dr.Storrs .-- Mr.
Beecher .-- Mr.Finney and Dr.B.M.

Palmer_.
The necessary limitations of this chapter forbid any reference to many distinguished American preachers whom I have seen or heard, but with whom I had not sufficient personal acquaintance to furnish any material for personal reminiscences.

In common with multitudes of others on both sides of the ocean, I had a hearty admiration for the brilliant genius and masterful sermons of Phillips Brooks, but I only heard two of his rapid and resonant addresses on anniversary occasions, and my acquaintance with him was very slight.

I heard only one discourse by that remarkable combination of preacher, poet, patriot and philosopher, Dr.Horace Bushnell, of Hartford,--his discourse on "Barbarism the Chief Danger," delivered before the "Home Missionary Society." His sermon on "Unconscious Influence," was enough to confer immortality on any minister of Jesus Christ.

I never was acquainted with him, but after his death, I suggested to the residents of New Preston, that they should name the mountain that rises immediately behind the home of his childhood and youth, _Mount Bushnell_.