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Title: Quiet Talks on Power

Author: S.D. Gordon

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Language: English

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QUIET TALKS
ON _POWER_

BY
S. D. GORDON

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NEW AND REVISED EDITION

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CONTENTS

PAGE

CHOKED CHANNELS 9

THE OLIVET MESSAGE 33

THE CHANNEL OF POWER 61

THE PRICE OF POWER 87

THE PERSONALITY OF POWER 117

MAKING AND BREAKING CONNECTIONS 147

THE FLOOD-TIDE OF POWER 173

FRESH SUPPLIES OF POWER 199

CHOKED CHANNELS.

An Odd Distinction.

A few years ago I was making a brief tour among the colleges of
Missouri. I remember one morning in a certain college village going over
from the hotel to take breakfast with some of the boys, and coming back
with one of the fellows whom I had just met. As we walked along,
chatting away, I asked him quietly, "Are you a christian, sir?" He
turned quickly and looked at me with an odd, surprised expression in his
eye and then turning his face away said: "Well, I'm a member of church,
but--I don't believe I'm very much of a christian." Then I looked at him
and he frankly volunteered a little information. Not very much. He did
not need to say much. You can see a large field through a chink in the
fence. And I saw enough to let me know that he was right in the
criticism he had made upon himself. We talked a bit and parted. B