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Yet his native force of genius, and his experimental knowledge of all the religious passions, from despair to ecstasy, amply supplied in him the want of learning. His rude oratory roused and melted hearers who listened without interest to the labored discourses of great logicians and Hebraists. His works were widely circulated among the humbler classes.
Vie Vernon was telling "a most interesting coincidence," her opening sentence "It was told to me by a friend a lawyer," causing surreptitious smiles and nudges among her younger hearers. "There was a girl in his office a typewriting girl. All the money had been lost " "Whose money? The lawyer's or the office's?" "Neither! Don't be silly. The girl's father's, of course."
It was an error on Jack's part, he gave his hearers to understand, to assume that the lid was completely off the great city of New York. "Too blamed fresh he's gettin'," the trio agreed. They seemed to think it was too bad of Jack. "The wrath of the Law," said Smith, "is very terrible. We will leave the matter, then, in your hands.
I did not give up my Sunday readings, even although the number of my hearers grew scantier. As many as could, we met together to read and to pray, yes, and to sing. And I shall never in this world hear such singing again. One refrain comes back to me now "Oh, had I the wings of the morning Oh, had I the wings of the morning Oh, had I the wings of the morning I'd fly to my Jesus away!"
They like to have something, fact or fiction, driven thunderously home into their souls. The only one of Mr. Billing's hearers who was thoroughly well satisfied with his speech was Doyle. The statement that five hundred dollars were to be handed over to him was, in his judgment, of more value than many resonant periods.
All this had chilled his wrath, and within him there was already arising the bitter consciousness of the failure of his attack on them. But as soon as he began to speak of each one separately, there was a swift and striking change in the relation of his hearers toward him.
I should not have thought that motor cars actually preserve life; but Gorman is a good orator and a master in the art of concealing the weak points of his argument. His hearers were quite ready to ignore the mortality statistics of our new motor traffic. The pig-breeding scientist led a round of applause. Gorman developed his theme.
He then says, 'There is also a Number of Negroes. Some times I see a Hundred and more among my Hearers. I have baptized about Forty of them within the last three Years, upon such a Profession of Faith as I then judged credible. Some of them, I fear, have apostatized; but others, I trust, will persevere to the End.
Most of the bedrooms possessed a professional story-teller, and in one there was a young romancist who began a stirring history the very first night of the term, which always ran on until the night before the holidays, and, if his hearers were apt to yawn at the sixth week of it, he himself enjoyed and believed in it keenly from beginning to end.
"They are as valid," said he very impressively so impressively and sternly that his hearers felt themselves turning cold under his words, filled with some mysterious apprehension. "They are as valid as were my reasons for holding my hand in the field out yonder, when I had you at the mercy of my sword, my lord. Neither more nor less. From that, you may judge them to be very valid."
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