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...generality is at least excusable, such is the lugubriousness of his humor: item, "The Three Tall Men" of the present volume. In his spare moments a man is making a coffin that shall be long enough for him to be neither bent nor snapped. He finishes a first coffin???it is needed for his tall brother; he finishes a second-for his tall son. He starts a third. Then?...
From his own pulpit, the new leader looked upon the faces of ardent friends. Some had known him from childhood. For Dr. Coffin???a descendant of Commodore Vanderbilt?is that rara avis, a genealogical Manhattanite. Graduated from Yale at the age of 20 with highest honors, he struck out from the ancestral paths, plunged into the ministry, and was soon conducting services in a shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation...
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