Category: Language & Communication
The lectures in this volume were originally delivered to the students of the Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, England. It is the first of his unfinished books to be published, and one to which he had himself given the title, "The Art of Illustration."
The earth, and all the planets, and all the solid matter of the universe, are controlled, as you know, by the force of attraction. We are kept in our place in the world, in goin...
5. Part 5What finer exposition of the text, "Weep with them that weep," can you have than this pretty anecdote? "Mother," said little Annie, "I cannot make out why poor Widow Brown likes...
4. Part 4We use them, first, _to interest the mind and secure the attention of our hearers_. We cannot endure a sleepy audience. To us, a slumbering man is no man. Sydney Smith observed...
8. Part 8Such a collection of illustrations as I have suggested will come very handy to you in future days, and you will be reminded, by the comparisons and figures used by others, to ma...
7. Part 7Stout Hugh Latimer, in that famous story of an incident in his trial before several bishops, brings out very clearly the omnipresence and omniscience of God, and the care that w...
6. Part 6Many have been moved to self-sacrifice by the story of the Moravians in South Africa who saw a large inclosed space of ground, in which there were persons rotting away with lepr...
11. Part 11This useful volume, from which I have already given you several extracts, says: "Instead, therefore, of sinking like lead in the mighty waters, he would float upon the liquid, i...
10. Part 10The next planet to Mercury is VENUS; it is about 66,000,000 miles from the sun, and is a little smaller than the earth, its diameter being 7510 miles, compared with our 7975. Ve...
2. Part 2Out of this last observation comes the further remark that _illustrations are best when they are natural and grow out of the subject_. They should be like those well-arranged wi...
3. Part 3STUDENTS PROGRESSING BACKWARD.--Menedemus was wont to say "that the young boys that went to Athens the first year were wise men, the second year philosophers, the third orators,...
1. Part 1The lectures in this volume were originally delivered to the students of the Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, England. It is the first of his unfinished books...
12. Part 12PREACHER'S MAGAZINE, THE.--Edited by Revs. Mark Guy Pearse and Arthur E. Gregory. Published Monthly, $1.50 per year. Single copy, 15 cents. No free samples. Bound volumes, net $...