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“Put the grass within reach of the sheep, and he will eat it himself. So it is with truth. Hold it up so that people can plainly see it; bring it within comfortable reach of them; give them time to get at it, and they will eat it. Charles Lamb used to say that ‘the truth of a poem ought to slide into the mind of the reader while the reader is imagining no such thing.’ The truth of a sermon ought to glide into the mind of the hearer without the hearer really knowing what is going on.”