Aug 30, 2017
Happy Birthday to Peter Cartwright, who played Elphias Doge!
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Happy Birthday to Peter Cartwright, who played Elphias Doge!
Passed Away HP actors & actresses
Terence Bayler -The Bloody Baron 08/02/16 Alan Rickman - Professor Snape 01/14/16 Rik Mayal- Peeves (who never saw the light of day on screen) 06/09/14 Dave Legeno - Fenrir Greyback 07/06/14 Roger Lloyd-Pack - Barty Crouch Sr. 01/15/14 Jimmy Gardner - Ernie Prang 05/03/10 Richard Griffiths - Uncle Vernon 03/28/13 Timothy Bateson - Kreacher (5th film)-09/16/09 Peter Cartwright- Elphias Doge (5th film)-11/13/13 David Rydall- Elphias Doge (7th film)-12/25/14 Eric Skyes- Frank Byrce -07/04/12 Robert Knox - Marcus Belby 05/24/08 Richard Harris - Professor Dumbledore (Films 1&2) 10/25/02 Margery Mason - Honeydukes Express Lady (4th Film) 01/26/14 Derek Deadman - Tom, Landlord of The Leaky Cauldron (1st film) 12/22/14 Elizabeth Spriggs - The fat lady (1st film) 07/02/08 Sheila Allen - Unidentified ministry witch (4th film) 10/13/11 Christopher Whittingham - Ministry wizard (4th film) 08/08/12 Alfred Burke - Armando Dippet (2nd film) 02/16/11 John Hurt - Garrick Ollivander (1st film & DH part 1 and 2) 01-27-17 Sam Beazley - Professor Everard (Order of the Phoenix) 06-22-17 Robert Hardy - Cornelius Fudge (All movies, mentioned or seen) 08-03-17
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Happy birthday and RIP, Peter Cartwright, who played Elphias Doge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
There was a large and wealthy Presbyterian congregation, that, by growing tired of their old and early preacher, had become vacant. They sought a popular successor, one that was up with the improved and advanced state of the times. They finally, by the offer of a large call, or salary, succeeded in engaging a very pious young minister as their pastor. At his first appointment, he took for his text, "Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord." Acts iii, 19. He preached an excellent sermon from this passage, in the judgment of the congregation, and they were very much delighted. The next Sabbath rolled on. Their new pastor rose in the pulpit and took the same text, and delivered substantially the same sermon. This produced a little whispering among their wise and knowing elders; but they attributed it all to absence of thought. The third Sunday rolled on, and up rose the preacher, reading off the same text and preaching the same sermon. Well, the elders concluded that this was outrageous and insufferable, and that they must really talk to him and put a stop to this way of preaching. So they called on their young pastor, and tabled their complaints very feelingly before him, asking him if he really -had but the one sermon. If so, they must call the congregation together and dismiss him, To all of which the pastor responded, the Bible was full of good texts as the one he had preached from, and he had an abundance of good sermons ready; but he thought as the signs of this improved age, and state of society, required an improved and advanced ministry, so did the advanced age require that the congregation should fully keep up with an improved ministry; "and," said the minister, "do you really think the congregation has complied with the requirements of my sermon? If you think they have, and you shall be the judges, I am ready at all times to take another text and preach a new sermon."
The Autobiography of Peter Cartwright (1856)
I do not recollect a single Methodist preacher, at that day, that justified slavery. But O, how have times changed! Methodist preachers in those days made it a matter of conscience not to hold their fellow-creatures in bondage, if it was practicable to emancipate them, conformably to the laws of the state in which they lived. Methodism increased and spread; and many Methodist preachers, taken from comparative poverty, not able to own a Negro, and who preached loudly against it, improved, and became popular among slaveholders; and many of them married into those slaveholding families, and became personally interested in slave property, as it is called. Then they began to apologize for the evil; then to justify it, on legal principles; then on Bible principles; till lo and behold! it is not an evil, but a good; it is not a curse, but a blessing; till really you would think, to hear them tell the story, if you had the means and did not buy a good lot of them, you would go to the devil for not enjoying the labor, toil, and sweat of this degraded race, and all this without rendering them any equivalent whatever!
The Autobiography of Peter Cartwright (1856)
There came into the congregation a young, awkward fellow, that would trespass on our rules by seating himself all the time among the ladies. It was very fashionable at that time for the gentlemen to roach their hair; and this young man had a mighty bushy roached head of hair. I took him out several times from among the women, but he would soon be back again. I told I. P. I wished he would attend to this young man. "Very well," said he; and immediately sent off and got a pair of scissors, and planted his company about a half mile off; then sent for this young fellow, under the pretense of giving him something to drink. When they got him out there, two of them, one on each side, stepped up to him with drawn dirks, and told him they did not mean to hurt him if he would be quiet; but if he resisted or hallooed, he was a dead man. They said they only wanted to roach his hair, and put him in the newest Nashville fashion. The fellow was scared almost to death, but made no resistance whatever. Then one with the scissors commenced cutting his hair, and it was haggled all over at a masterly rate
The Autobiography of Peter Cartwright (1856)
I will here mention a special case of wild fanaticism that took place with one of these Halcyon preachers while I was on this circuit. He worked himself up into the belief that he could be so holy in this life, that his animal nature would become immortal, and that he would never die; and he conceived that he had gained this immortality, and could live without eating. In despite of all the arguments and persuasions of his friends, he refused to eat or drink. He stood it sixteen days and nights, and then died a suicidal death. His death put a stop to this foolish delusion, and threw a damper over the whole Halcyon fanaticism.
The Autobiography of Peter Cartwright (1856)