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Title: Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures

Author: George W. Bain

Release Date: October 12, 2005 [EBook #16858]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _George W. Bain._]

_Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric,
Prose, Poetry and Story
woven into_

_Eight Popular Lectures._

_by_

_George W. Bain._

PUBLISHED BY
THE PENTECOSTAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
LOUISVILLE, KY.

COPYRIGHTED 1915

BY

GEO. W. BAIN,

LEXINGTON, KY.

To

Anna M. Bain.

So far as this life is concerned, I can express no better wish for any
young man who reads this book, than that he may be wedded to a wife as
loyal, loving and helpful to him as mine has been to me.

INTRODUCTION.

In offering this book to the public no claim is made to literary merit
or originality of thought. It is published with the same purpose its
contents were spoken from the platform, namely, to do good.

With the testimony of many, that hearing these lectures helped to
shape their lives, came the thought that reading them might help
others when the tongue that spoke them is silent.

As a public speaker the author admits, that how to get a grip on his
hearers outweighed the grammar of language; that the ring of sincerity
and truth in presenting a proposition appealed to him more than
relation of pronoun or preposition; besides in the "high school of
hard knocks" from which he graduated artistic taste in literature was
not taught.

If it is true that "tongue is more potent than pen," then the
mysterious power of personality and delivery will be missed in the
reading, yet it is hoped the simplicity of the setting of anecdote and
argument, incident and experience,