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PoOer Of Earnestness. This earnest force is,
in truth. the main element IN the impressiveness
Of public speaking. II carries conviction TO tho
minds of the hearers. with power that nothing
else can give Its absence is nm irreparabIe defect
Sincerity is not enough; a desire to be useful is
not enough. Men must have that ardent impulse
which, breaking through every barrier, attests to
the world their sincerity, by urging them to the
most devoted efforts in the diffusion oftruth. They
must be distinguished by peculiar energy, they
must have moral power to compel respectful at
tention. The thorough sarnestness OF such men
in everything they undertake is an attribute Of
their character which, if it were not developed in
religious agency, would find vent in some other
direction. Their advocacy could not be marked
with cool indifference or by suspicious sincerity


1t is part Of their very nature to "throw their
whole soul into the work." They require no
elocution toteach them mock earnestness for the
natural expression of their mental emotions as.
companies and enforces their deepfelt uuerance


So spake Paul, and Luther Ignatius I.oyola, and


Whitfield, Peter the Hermit, and Knox s.5a


The Pulpit and the People, by p. Ryldnds.