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the art of public speaking sense never fails to give them that have it words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations as an apothecary shops that those parts that are empty or have things of small value in them are as godly dressed as those that are full of precious drugs. They that soar too high, often full hard, making a low and level dwelling preferable. The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. Buildings have need of a good foundation that lie so much exposed to the weather. William penn. Chapter one acquiring confidence before an audience, there is a strange sensation often experienced in the presence of an audience. It may proceed from the gaze of the many eyes that turn upon the speaker, especially if he permits himself to steadily return that gaze. Most speakers have been conscious of this in a nameless thrill, a real something pervading the atmosphere, tangible, evanescent, indescribable. All writers have borne testimony to the power of speakers I in impressing an audience students of public speaking continually ask, how can I overcome self consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me. Before an audience, did you ever notice in looking from a train window that some horses feed near the track and never even paused to look up at the thundering cars while just ahead at the next railroad crossing, a farmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse as the train goes by. How would you cure a horse that he's afraid of? Cars graze him in a backwoods lot where he would never see steam mentions, or automobiles or drive or pasture him, where he would frequently see the machines apply horse sense to ridding yourself of self consciousness and fear face an audience as frequently as you can and you will soon stop shying. A book may give you excellent suggestions on how to best conduct yourself in the water, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangle and be half scared to death. There are great many wet lys bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them to plunge is the only way practice practice practice in speaking before. An audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking. The apostle paul tells us that every man must work out his own salvation. All we can do here is to offer you suggestions as to how to best prepare for your plunge. The real plunged no one can take for you. A doctor may prescribe, but you must take the medicine. Do not be disheartened if at first you suffer from stage fright dan patch was more susceptible to suffering than a superannuated dray horse would be. It never hurts a fool to appear before. An audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling a blow that would kill a civilized man soon, heels on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.