AN HOUR-GLASS.
[ANY ,thé pffe/tif hour-glasses during
•the sixte'emiK and, g l ^ o f ’Ahë'seventeeiith' -eem
L 'turies might be' -gathered- from contemporary
pS^xters. In anE Ithnes- of’-our forefathers, the
b\preachers ||!|re -in the|?ha^itipf measuring their
sermons by Tthe^höurand we h'our-glass was
a'piecdof turnituie belonging to the pulpit.- It
was placed beside preacher, who Aegtlated
|jtófis*sermoh JbV the m o t i o n I t --cems
tó ha’^eb.^etm- fused equally b y *Ca th o l i c s
and Pioteétants. In the" account hbuSe inline'Blackfriars,
where" a party of Romanists %;e^^^éffihleds1o hear ©net-of rln n^pfi kJ k i- in
1623,-^^Kireacker is-_ described asA“:havin_ H i' "inpli « _iii <1 B hi-
-middle-with a Jinén^^l^E,' and ^ 'tip p e t ^oCscarjret^n' b^th his ~h mid- i-
being ^ftbnded by a man-that brought after him his ^^h.and"-/(t)?ir-/^'p’ _ l i |
1 + h printed by John Rat iu ^ ^ ^nA*r6wi^ho|)
Parker is represêiftêéU^with an hour-
’ glass' Stlhis .Irlghl^ hand.f f i f ^ óntiiigié<n
p H p ^ n ; <'sf; the beginnin^of jthel
Jasit^Jnfury.' vAt that pehitfd .f®^hh|dq
Daniel Burgess, a celebrated n o n c e s
Ifdrmist, well known &>r?the length , of
ifis.' sermons and • the qnaihtnjêss^ of
his, iHfustrations. On one occasion he
wa- dec latming. \\ itlr greatj. ^yejtpm'ënce J
against the sin of* drunkenness, and I
having - exhausted vfMe, nsual^.-thpe to
- whicjlJtSlength , of the sermon was
Lhmited^ he .ttirned»'j^^^hour-glass, and
said, /bBret%|h, I have somewhat more
to say’ oh tliA nature and consequences
^'.drunkennesv so let u s:have the' other
'glass, and then.
Hour - glasses
were often very
elegantly . formed,
and o f, rich
, materials. '"-The
one represented