As for ourselves, we refuse to put down our head in public prayer until we find out whether or not we are going to be able to hear.

Though you preach like an angel, you will not say anything more important than that letter of St.Paul to the Corinthians, or that Psalm of David which you have just now read to the backs of the heads of the congregation.

Laymen and ministers, speak out! The opening exercises were not instituted to clear your voice, but to save souls.

If need be, squeeze a lemon and eat "Brown's troches" for the sake of your voice before you go to church; but once there, make your first sentence resonant and mighty for God.

An hour and a half is short time anyhow to get five hundred or five thousand people ready for heaven.