Author : John Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331598473
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (984 download)
Book Synopsis Health; Five Lay Sermons to Working People (Classic Reprint) by : John Brown
Download or read book Health; Five Lay Sermons to Working People (Classic Reprint) written by John Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Health; Five Lay Sermons to Working People The other two sermons were never preached, except in print; but they were composed in the same key. Isay this not in defence, but in ex planation. I have tried to speak to working men and women from my lay pulpit, in the same words, with the same voice, with the same thoughts I was in the habit of using when doctoring them. This is the reason of their plain speaking. There is no other way of reaching these sturdy and weather and work-beaten understandings; there is nothing line about them outside, though they are Often as white in the skin under their clothes as a duchess, and their hearts as soft and ten der as Jonathan's, or as Rachel's, or our own Grizel Baillie's but you must speak out to them, and must not be mealy-mouthed if you wish to reach their minds and affections and wills. I wish the gentle folks could bear, and could use a little more of this outspokenness; and, as old Porson said, condescend to call a spade a spade, and not a horticultural implement; five letters instead of twenty-two, and more to the purpose. You see, my dear working friends, I am great upon sparing your strength and taking things cannily. All very well, ' say you; 'it is easy Speaking, and saying, Take it easy; but if the pat's on the fire, it maun bile.' It must, but you needn't poke up the fire for ever, and you may now and then set the kettle on the hob, and let it sing, instead of leaving it to burn its bottom out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
