34 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

descend, but come down—to the dear
young lambs of your flock. See what
interests them. Watch their counte-
hances, at the domestic hearth, while
you are trying the effect upon them of
different topics and different modes of
presenting these topics. Break your
sentences to pieces. Cut them up.
Lay aside your words of Latin and
Greek derivation. « «You can’t do it ?”
Yes, you can. “It’s an art.” Very
well, learn the art. Make yourself per-
fect in it. Don’t be afraid that you will
spoil your style for other uses. If you
should mix up a great deal more Anglo-
Saxon in your sermons than you now do,