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Updated: May 8, 2025
It was not the man's gospel that fascinated me nor his illuminated prophecy of the millennium that produced the vibrations in my soul, but the surging passion of his faith, the tempest of his enthusiasm. I had enough experience of public speaking to distinguish between the theatrical and the genuine in oratory. Here was no tub-thumping soothsayer, but an inspired zealot.
Moreover at the council, as at his private office, the continued taciturnity of the millionaire could not but impress the politicians as it had already impressed the financial world. "He does not waste his breath in tub-thumping," said one, looking reverently at the sealed figure.
The Prime Minister became "The Primisther," the Chief Secretary the "Cheesesecry," and all this impotence was made the more manifest by thundering on the box with his open hand in short, it was all inarticulate, painful, perplexing emptiness, weakened and not fortified by prolific tub-thumping. A poor sad nay, a tragic business. Such was the young man; and then came the old.
For even at this present time the lasting work of the Salvationist, the work which makes him so noble and so useful a figure in the modern world, is not accomplished by pageantry and tub-thumping, but by the intimate, often most beautiful, and very little known work of its slum officers, particularly the women.
Gladstone.... Get up into the pulpit and say "Gladstone" very loud... and watch the result. Gladstone was a Radical... "pull everything up by the roots."... Pater was always angry and sneery about him.... Where were the Radicals? Somewhere very far away... tub-thumping... the Conservatives made them thump tubs... no wonder. She decided she must be a Radical.
A moment later the dog sat up and listened with an interest that gradually increased until the door opened and Geoffrey Horner came into the room. 'Faith, it's Horner! said Conyngham. 'Where are you from? 'The North. 'Ah sit down. What have you been doing up there tub-thumping? Horner came forward and sat down in the chair indicated. He looked five years older than when he had last been there.
Through all this my eyes had never left her for a moment. I had hoped that this empty tub-thumping to which we had been listening would have affected her. But she had not moved nor stirred. "Nina!" I said softly. "Nina. Come with me!" But she only shook her head. Grogoff, quite silent now, lolled on the sofa, watching us. I went up to her and put my hand on her sleeve.
The Dewan said: "Mr. Macgregor has been sent to tell us that his party pledges itself to help us in Parliament." "Yes, you need have no fear. We'll see that justice is done you," began the politician in his best tub-thumping manner.
'Here you are at Cambridge an American, went on Selwyn. 'Just because the set you know enlists with an accompaniment of tub-thumping' 'That isn't the way the English do things, said Watson without pausing in his playing. 'My dear fellow, said Selwyn, 'don't let the pose of modesty fool you over here.
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