The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-01-21


time. A man has no right to go into the
pulpit in the expectation Of something
turning up. can speak better standing
before an audience than can in my,
study, and the larger the audience is the
easier can speak"
"Do you equip yourself with notes to
any great extent?"
81 make very full memoranda, so that in
ordinary cases l know what am going to
say. II a subject is worth presenting at
all 1t is worth presenting in the best shape.
The extemporaneous faculty Is likely to be
abused after a man has been speaking a
great many years. There is no difficulty
In talking three -fourths Of an hour on
almost any subject, and the temptation is
to talk upon the hour and not after series
Of preparation. While a great deal has
been said In favor Of extemporaneous
speaking, think that many whospeak ex-
temporaneously fail to interest because
their ideas are diluted. A man In order to
extemporize well has to be a hard student.
A man who, according to the old theory,
shakes a sermon out of his coat-sleeve
gives sermon that is not worth the shak-
| ing out"
"Can you readily tell whether your au-
dience is an appreciative one"
It is very easy to feel the pulse Of an
audience. In some regions people are
actuated into sort of stolidity. 1t does
not make so much difference in sermons as
in lectures. When man attempts to lec-
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thing useful and to entertain. When an
audience is not entertained it becomes
very dull process was surprised to hear
Wendell Phillips say that there were GER
tain towns and cities where they nearly
killed him by their frigidity. / had sup
| posed that he was man least affected by
audience. From what heard from Mr..
Phillips, made up my mind, however,
that in order to be successful on any occa-
sion he needed either to be hiSsed or ap-
plauded, he did not care much which, and
l suppose all speakers are more or less af-
fected by audiences. On some subjects a
man knows that he drives against the cur
rent"
"Are there special subjects upon which
you prefer speaking?"
al can not say that there are. try to
get my ideas from above as to what shall
say, and then go ahead, whether it meets
the appreciation of the world or not"
~ presume you have large correspond
ence and letters from all quarters"
"Two or three days ago had a clothes
basket filed with mail matter. My three
professions of lecturing, preaching and
magazine writing require an immense
amount Of correspondence"
"Are the applicants for charity very nu-
merous"
"They are numerous enough to swamp q
Vanderbilt. Still the great trouble Of my
life is to me ths inability to meet genuine
cases Of suffering and want There are so
many people who can not pay their rent,
so many out of employment and so many
who want advice that 1t is almost impos-
sible to tell what is best to be done under
tn, circumstances. And so many domestic
troubles are presented, in which people
want counsel, that l have often said the
fatigue Of life is the draft on ones sympa-
thies."
"How do you regard the present STATE
OF religious life"
There were never so many people al
now who pray and believe in God, aut
never so many people who are trying TO dc
right and lead lofty lives as there are to-
day."
"Where is this condition most markedY
"All over the country there is reaction
In favor Of morality. Infdelity gives the
people no consolation when they have be-
reavement in their houses, and the relig.
ion o., don't know, is a very poor religion
We have a faith in regard TO everything
elie. We have faith in the Brooklyn
Bridge, faith in the engineer who built il
faith in the carpenters and masons who
had anything TO do with IL. We hav,
faith when we go on railroad train
faith in the engineer, In the conductor and
faith In the men who built the bridge,
over which the road passes. We hav,
faith in every thing but God. People tall
as though faith were something new In
the Christian religion. IL is not. Tn,
only difference between financial success
and bankruptcy is the difference In faith
Take all faith out Of the money market
and American commerce would 20 L
demolition in ten minutes. There Is not SC
much evidence that Shakespeare wrott
Hamlet, that Walter Scott wrote Mar,
mion, or that Tennyson wrote The Charge
Of the Light Brigade, as that God inspired
the evangelists and prophets in tn,
production Of the Bible. The world Il
full Of evils OF all sorts, and that is TO b'
corrected by one cathoicon-that is
Christianity. And IL Is going 20 advance
not by half a dozen additions to this or that
church, but through the coming great re.
vivals Of religion, one starting at the north
and sweeping south; one starting nt the
south and sweeping north; one starting
from the east to the west, and another from
west to the east, and this is going TO carry
everything before IL. When the Divine
Spirit goes forth upon the nations there
will be no arguing against IL; there will b,
no resisting 1t. It will come In the shap,
Of great tidal wavesl Everything points
that way"
"Then you have no fears Of the result Of
Robert Ingersoll's work"
"The effect Of his talk has been TO poisor
/, individual minds, but in no wise does hs
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