The Art of Interesting, Its Theory and Practice for Speak...
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The Tiresome Sermon still handles its merchandise in the bulk, and still uses the Old brown paper and the Old ball of cord. Conventionality and triteness are the chief factors in producing sermons tiresome in thought. They are the uninviting receptacles of Old ideas. Unhappily the competition in the pulpits is not always keen enough to force an improvement i...