Inspiring Preachers?

I recently stayed a night at the former rectory of Pen-y-Dyffryn and was amused by the description I came across of the first Rector, the Reverend Robert Williams, reliably described as "ponderous and pedantic, big and burly, waddling as he walked with three or four pupils at his heels". The 1861 census gives details of his household. He had two sisters, a dairymaid, a housemaid and two farm servants living in. He was a dull preacher, using the same sermons over and over, reading them in a monotone. He was not much liked by his parishioners, and maintained a congregation of as many as a dozen worshippers. He was, however, a Celtic scholar, and amongst other publications is responsible for the first dictionary of the Cornish language.
Two more vicars followed; the Reverend Jones until 1908, and the Reverend Morris until 1949. Both were rather more popular figures, and congregations regularly reached 100 or more. Perhaps they put a bit more into their preaching.

Which reminds me of the the parishioner who advised their vicar that rather than putting more fire into his sermons, he needed to put more of his sermons into the fire.