Throw back your shoulders, open your mouth! Make your voice strike against the opposite wall! Pray not only for a clean heart, but for stout lungs.

I have nearly worn out my ears trying to catch your utterances.

When a captain on a battlefield gives an order, the company all hear; and if you want to be an officer in the Lord's army, do not mumble your words.

The elocution of Christ's sermon is described when we are told he opened his mouth and taught them--that is, spoke distinctly, as those cannot who keep their lips half closed.

Do you think it a sign of modesty to speak so low?
I think the most presuming thing on earth for a Pulpit to do is to demand that an audience sit quiet when they cannot hear, simply looking.