Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It has become obvious to careful observers that the modern pulpit is more distinguished for strong ability, sound learning, and deep piety than fortits eloquence. Since it'is true of the thousands now annually enter ring the ministry, so few are remarkable for their power and success as speakers who are distinguished scholars and writers, their study and training for speaking are either greatly neglected or fearfully mis directed. The numerous text-books on rhetoric, in every liberal course of study, with the corresponding professorships and hebdomadal declamations, do not indicate a neglect of this branch of edtication. We therefore conclude, that by some means its cultiva tion has become sadly defeetwe.