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Some people spin up to Methuselahs in a few years. From what I can learn of Methuselah, he never grew past copper-toed boots. He just hibernated and "chawed on." The more birthdays we have, the nearer we approach eternal youth! Bernhardt, Davis and Edison The spectacle of Sarah Bernhardt, past seventy, thrilling and gripping audiences with the fire and brilliancy of youth, is inspiring.
In this country and in England such audiences have thronged the buildings in which he preached as no other orator has ever addressed on religious subjects, and the influence of his words is demonstrated by the thousands who through his appeals have been led to Christ. We are nearing the end of the century.
Newgag, to be sure, should naturally have been, as he was, the last to discover it. Newgag thus went one step further than any comedian I have ever known. Having detected his inability to amuse audiences, he confessed it. People who know actors and read this will already have said that it is a fiction, and that Newgag's admission is false to life.
Charles Sumner faced audiences of the new school, which upheld the institution as a righteous moral order. This explains the chief difference in the attitude of the two leaders. Sumner, like Adams, began as an opponent of pro-slavery aggression, but he went farther: he attacked the institution itself as a great moral evil.
You don't happen to know 'I Stood on the Bridge at Midnight'?" "No Ruth sings that," replied Susan, and colored violently. Burlingham ignored the slip. "'Blue Alsatian Mountains'?" "Yes. But that's very old." "Exactly. Nothing is of any use to the stage until it's very old. Audiences at theaters don't want to hear anything they don't already know by heart. They've come to see, not to hear.
Wherever she went, success attended her efforts, and she traveled extensively throughout the kingdom, speaking sometimes to very large audiences. Dr. Stevens, the celebrated American Methodist historian, thus sums up the work of a single year.
Thundering out its message into the waste places, careless of audiences like a Master! Bully, grizzled old Master-Bard singing as most of them do to empty benches! And it had been doing that ten thousand thousand years, and would do so for ten thousand thousand more, and never pause for plaudits. I suspect the soul of old Homer did that and is still doing it, somehow, somewhere.
The large room is decorated with rifles, swords, and other instruments of warfare, European and native; and it is in this room that the European rajah gives his audiences: and it is also in this room that every day, at five o'clock, a capital dinner is served up, to which we were made heartily welcome. During our stay, Mr.
Theodore Parker drew immense audiences, not because he pandered to the many, but because he deferred to none. He challenged the moss-covered beliefs of all denominations, and spoke with an inward self-reliance, up to that time, unknown in a single pulpit of America.
Attracting to themselves at the outset, by the mere glamour of his name, enormous audiences, they not only maintained their original prestige during a long series of years during an interval of fifteen years altogether but the audiences brought together by them, instead of showing any signs of diminution, very appreciably, on the contrary, increased and multiplied.
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