it; they may balk (“When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; and others said, We will hear thee again of this”); but they know clearly what it is, and feel that it is for them. To bring a speech home to an audience, then, is to win their sympathy all through it, and at the end to apply it to their own conduct. B. WHAT A SPEECH CONSISTS OF The two things that go to make up most speeches are seen quite simply in St. Peter’s speech to the council (Acts 11). “When Peter was come up