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Show A Reporter's Valuable Suggestion. - The Rev: T. DeWitt Talmage, when in town the other day, said that he owed much of his success in life to the suggestions sugges-tions of a newspaper reporter. He was engaged to lecture in Baltimqre several years ago, and just before he was to begin be-gin his discourse the newspaper man, who had been sent to report the the address, ad-dress, inquired in an off-hand way : "Well, Dr. Talmage, are you going to give us many points to-night?" "Points?" repeated the clergyman. "Points?" "Yes," replied the reporter, "you won't get much space to-morrow unless your lecture is full of good points that the paper can't afford to leave out." "I thought very deeplv over the reporter's report-er's words," said Dr. Talmage, in telling the story, "and I saw that they were full of sound wisdom. Since that time I have always endeavored to make my lectures and sermons and literary work bristle with 'points' that is to say, with striking strik-ing thoughts and phrases." |