Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an AppendixDodd and Mead, 1875 - 233 páginas |
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... utterance was inevitably interrupted , sus- pended , at the moment at which it might other- wise have come to be easy and spontaneous . I could never get force enough , between the recur- ring references to my notes , to push the sermon ...
... utterance was inevitably interrupted , sus- pended , at the moment at which it might other- wise have come to be easy and spontaneous . I could never get force enough , between the recur- ring references to my notes , to push the sermon ...
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... utterance , unless I was reading . It was a steady hard struggle , from first to last , for conscious freedom in public speech ; with almost no sense of success , and with very little FIRST SERMON AT BROOKLYN . 21 reward , except as 20 ...
... utterance , unless I was reading . It was a steady hard struggle , from first to last , for conscious freedom in public speech ; with almost no sense of success , and with very little FIRST SERMON AT BROOKLYN . 21 reward , except as 20 ...
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... utterance , and even regretted that he had not himself adopted the same method , earlier in life . So , you see , Gentlemen , I have made at least one convert ! Such persistent and strenuous mental exer- tion on your subjects is needful ...
... utterance , and even regretted that he had not himself adopted the same method , earlier in life . So , you see , Gentlemen , I have made at least one convert ! Such persistent and strenuous mental exer- tion on your subjects is needful ...
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... utterance . Ask them to bear with you , if at first you seem to fail to do justice to your subject , or to your own thought of it ; and * Note VI . ONE SOURCE OF DIFFICULTY . 53 to wait with patience 52 PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES .
... utterance . Ask them to bear with you , if at first you seem to fail to do justice to your subject , or to your own thought of it ; and * Note VI . ONE SOURCE OF DIFFICULTY . 53 to wait with patience 52 PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES .
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... utterance , to human souls . Never look upon your congregation as so many ' cabbage - heads , ' as some one has inconsid- erately said , but always look on them as immor- tal intelligences , each one of whom shall live forever ! and ...
... utterance , to human souls . Never look upon your congregation as so many ' cabbage - heads , ' as some one has inconsid- erately said , but always look on them as immor- tal intelligences , each one of whom shall live forever ! and ...
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Página 230 - And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal ; Goal of all mortal : — Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent ! While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error ; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages : " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless.
Página 229 - I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth : and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
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