Word: behind
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...BROTHERS.- Picture Friday at 1.30 behind Sever...
Bishop Hall of Vermont preached last night at Appleton Chapel from the text "and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had the face of a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle," taken from Revelation. All the Revelation of St. John, he said, must not be taken as a literal description of heaven. It is an allegory, and all through the Bible we find...
...talk. The word "talk" is not here used in the hypercritical, scornful way which is so common. Talk has, in its present use, a broad meaning. It means thought, preparation, determination, sagacity, knowledge of men and of affairs, the adaptation of means to an end. With these behind it, speech is as worthy of our respect as is the most effective means of action provided by our constitution...
...above all else. The speaker must also have regard for his own position, and must take care to put himself into harmonious relations with his audience, which has the flat. This does not always requre a fine presence or a highly trained voice; but it demands sincerity and earnestness. Behind all is the character of the man. which will ever remain the great power in public speaking...
...Thus the relation of man to the infinite and unknown of life must be understood. Man, living in the known world, can tell nothing of the infinite, but upon coming to the blank wall of the unknown, without being able to affirm anything, he feels that there is something behind it, which, however, he can define only by negatives...