The Speaker Lost in His Message
An exchange gives an excellent rule with regard to the preparation of a preacher's introductions to his discourses when it says that, while the preacher may seek at the outset to produce a pleasing impression, "yet the perfection of his introduction, so far as he is concerned, depends upon the quickness and completeness of his disappearance from view, the audience meanwhile becoming absorbed with interest in the subject." There is a thought there for other speakers than preachers. The most telling discourses, whether delivered to audiences of thousands or of one, are those in which the man is effaced in his message, so that what he says appears not as his own wisdom, but as the Word of God.—New York Observer.