Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-05-29
THE "AUTOCRAT' ON AUDIENCES.

THE AUT0CRAT' ON AUDIENCES.
We copy pleasant page or two from the
" Autocrat's" entertainment in April:
I'D tell YOU how ] came to know so much
about averages. There was ono season when
was lectufing, commonly five evenings in the
week, through most of the lccturing period
soon found as most speakers do. that it was
plcasantcr to work one lecture than to keep sew
eral on hand.
Don't you get sick of one lecture 9-said
the landlady'S daughter,--who had new dress
on that day. and was in spirits for conversation.
was going to talk about avcrages,-I said,
but have no objection TO telling YOU about
lectures, to begin with.
A new lecture always has certain excitement
connected with its delivery. One thinks well
of it, as of most things fresh from his mind. At
ter few deliveries Of it, one gets tired and then
dlsguStcd with its reception. Go on delivering
it, and the disgust passes off. until, after one has
repeated it hundred or hundred and fifty
times, he rather enjoys the hundred and first or
the hundred and fifty first time, before new
audience But this is one condition.--thst he
never LAYS the lecture down and lets it cool. If
he does. there comes on loathng for it which
is intense. so that the sight of the old battered
manuscript is as bad as sea-Sickness.
a new lecture is like any other new tool We
use II for awhile with pleasure. Then 1t bhsters
our hands, and then we hate to touch H. BY
and-by our hands get callous. and then we have
no longer any senStiveneSs aboutit. But it we
give it up. the callouses disappear and if we
NEEDLE with it again. we miss the novelty and
get the blisters. The story is often quoted of
Whitfield, that he said sermon was good for
nothing until it had been preached forty times
lecture doesn't begin to be old until 1t has
passed its hundrcdth delivery; and some, |
think, have doubled If not quadrupled that num-
Der. These old lectures are mans best, com
monty they improve by age, alSo,-llke the
pipes, fddlcS. and poems told YOU OF the 9th
or day One learns to make the most of their
strong points and to carry of their weak ores,
to take out the really good things which don't
tell on the audience, and put in cheaper things
that do. All this degrades him of course, but
II improves the lecture for general delivery. y
thorough! popular lecture, ought to have moth,
ing III IT which hNe hundred people can not all
take III fiash, just as II Is uttered
No indeed,-l should he very sorry to
say anything diSreSpectiul OF audiences. have
been kindly treated by great many and may
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nrc,, IN, ,b,. charm oC ,bo;,. ,n,rror vb,,oyor
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sneak abont i ono of tbe mos, T cxtranrd;nory
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ear to,yards sneolnr -drnn otr aslaan nf,sr n
,,hna whor ,Io air ~ 0' Ett[o raroo,;r
With carhon;c mid Rr;aht ,ronner,s faces vo,,no
and nd, n;dJln'oreJ III, hoh;md these h3t to,
,"ard ,bs froni o,,t thn host and Iac,nr,
,au,'. " tbat N.~ oa. ,,S De,
sharn and scbo arliie on% ni'' '' So,sn nretty f.
male onns snr;nlied ahomt ~ ;ndoGnite Ium.
h"n of na;r, ~ 'n',n,r p"o, n"a, hannr hut no,
oL, W. pt,antir III H." nr'
~ IesS nn;et D,ll f3css h"so W.. th1rn In how
monv ~ nlaces, don't 's soy S,ll nronie but face,
,;,hanrt ~ ra,. of svnno,b;. a raoyement o
sxnroSsior @Ir " They aTc rlf wbot - l the lecturer
NJ f,co. ,,i "'". lemons o,o,
anI stnn, lneaments u, ',r a sucL ,bo VAIN
snnl ont If him ,Mtb,tf ;s ,bo chief reason VIII,
Iecturers grow so noIe bcsnro tho season is over
Tbo, ran5er I,te,j an, on,n',', of ,;,ol color;c
tha, oot nn o"r Minds W. thoso cnIJ- -hIoode,
creatures I was talking about act on our hearts
0ut of al ,hese ;neSi,ahle elements lon m M ,bn audi
annr,ted oreat yortera
n" % ,nnc5 Ike 6fry others Won hoye seem rs nm,
t', ,'nn,n'als ~ ,bo sonoc s,ao;as are lilo oaci
othor eTu Tncb omd;nnce @ laucbS and eocb cries
IN i ;nst the same naces Of Tonr % lecture that is
r. ,o,, nal ono omob or cr,. ,o, n,ale all
r;sn thnse lttic ;nJescrhohle ~ ,erents wh;cl
Iect,,rer taI os cngn;sance nf ust as dr;ve
nat;oos L;s horso,s eonling b;H sars ave- snre +
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