Pruning—See [Ignorance, The Cost of]; [Soul Surgery].
PRUNING TO DESTROY
Said Luther: “Sin is like the beard, the oftener it is cut off, the more shaving seems to be necessary!”
Perennial weeds continue to live and bear seeds from year to year. Some weeds of this class, as the quack-grass, sow-thistle, and the wild morning-glory, multiply from buds on underground parts as well as by seeds. They are the hardest of all to destroy. As the leaves manufacture the food that nourishes roots, by preventing the leaves from growing, the roots will starve—the surest way to kill perennial weeds, tho often hard to carry out. (Text.)
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Psychical Activity—See [Multiple Consciousness].
Psychology in Penology—See [Children, Saving].
Psychology of Suggestion—See [Negative Teaching].
PUBLIC SPEAKING
A greenhorn, who had never seen a great banquet, came to the city, and, looking through the door, said to his friends who were showing him the sights: “Who are those gentlemen who are eating so heartily?” The answer was: “They are the men who pay for the dinner.” “And who are those gentlemen up there on the elevation looking so pale and frightened and eating nothing?” “Oh,” said his friend, “those are the fellows who make the speeches.”—T. De Witt Talmage.