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"Well," laughing too, "they are not very short; but that's not why I dislike them. It's because uncle likes me to write them down afterwards." "Oh, how dreadful! And do you manage to do it?" "I try to. Sometimes it's easier than others; but sometimes there are so many firstlies and secondlies divided into other firstlies and secondlies that I get into a regular muddle.
"I haven't been inside a church for many a year and it's too late to begin now." "That's no argument at all," said Quincy. "But my principal reason for wishing you to go is so you can see the people that your hospital is going to benefit one of these days." "But these preachers use such highfalutin' language, and so many 'firstlies' and 'secondlies' I lose my hold on the text." "Mr.
Exponents of more modern and liberal thinking had since come and gone leaving the men and women who had been reared on the thundered Word as expressed in his firstlies, secondlies, thirdlies and finalies unable to fill their pulpit to their satisfaction. Then it was that Sam Haymond, D.D., came to them, as a visiting preacher for a single Sabbath.
He expounded at length, with firstlies and secondlies and all minor subdivisions of argument, on organization, and order, and civilization. He contended that the trader was the bearer of civilization, and that the trader must be protected in his trade else he would not come. Over to the westward were islands which would not protect the traders. What was the result?
Though modern preachers do not announce the division of their subject into heads and sub-heads, firstlies and secondlies and finallies, my brethren, there seems to be the old framework underneath the sermon, and every one recognises it as moving silently below the surface; at least, I always fancy that as the minister finishes one point and attacks another the younger folk fix their eagle eyes on him afresh, and the whole congregation sits up straighter and listens more intently, as if making mental notes.
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