Revitalizing Manuscript Sermons of the
18th & 19th Century as Oral Ephemera
paper medium
Henry Scadding:
Most convenient page around
Matthew-Luke
Henry Scadding has a sermon he has to write down immediately before he loses the inspiration and so he writes it down on the back of an illustration or even scrap paper he has used for mathematical equations earlier. Scadding uses these pages, as opposed to clean pages, to complete the sermon in a timely fashion. The irregularity of these pages are owed to convenience, so as to capture the religious rumination in the moment.
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As a result, Scaddings sermons are written on several different types of paper of varying color, thickness, and quality. Despite this irregularity in paper medium, Scadding binds them together as long as they are sermons on a similar subject such as the holy Apostles Matthew and Luke. The lack of standardized paper is indicative of Scaddings preference for convenience over preservative potential when it comes to the paper medium for his sermons.
Henry Scadding:
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Irregular response to a capricious addition.
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Matthew-Luke
Scadding is inspired by poem quatrain, written under a quote from Luke 18:1, which states “men ought always to pray, and not to faint”. He cuts this printed poem out and pastes it upon the recto side of a blank page; however, the opposite page is where Scadding writes a related sermon on human limitation and prayer. Scadding does not treat his pages like this often but the inspiring poem, related in subject, becomes part of a page in his sermon collection just as it becomes part of his speech before the congregation.
