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Henry ward beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. aren't you and i usually less sensible? would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? in other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

-B. C. Forbes

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Henry Ward Beecher, So The Story Goes,

B. C. Forbes

Henry ward beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. aren't you and i usually less sensible? would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? in other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

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For my part i love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. as for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. there is something sociable about it, too. think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

By the time i went to the pulpit, the vision was never on the same level as when god first gave it to me; it was clearer and bigger. it was better because the body of christ complemented what god had given me. so when i gave the vision to the congregation, the influencers already bought it. then after the people have heard my message, and migrate to the influencers, these influencers are already my allies and help me communicate the vision to the congregation.

Once henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. the mermaid had been injured by a shark. henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be greek. "english!" henry said. "by god, plum, why would i rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?

One day mara, the buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of india with his attendants. he saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. the man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. mara's attendants asked what that was and mara replied, "a piece of truth." "doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, o evil one?" his attendants asked. "no," mara replied. "right after this they usually make a belief out of it."

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- henry ward beecher - i never knew how to worship until i knew how to love.

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. it shall not end until my death. i shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. i shall wear no crowns and win no glory. i shall live and die at my post. i am the sword in the darkness. i am the watcher on the walls. i am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. i pledge my life and honor to the night's watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

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