It is thought classic and elegant to have a delicate utterance, and that loud tones are vulgar.

But we never heard of people being converted by anything they could not hear.

It is said that on the Mount of Olives Christ opened His mouth and taught them, by which we conclude He spake out distinctly.
God has given most Christians plenty of lungs, but they are too lazy to use them.

There are in the churches old people hard of hearing who, if the exercises be not clear and emphatic, get no advantage save that of looking at the blessed minister.
People say in apology for their inaudible tones: "It is not the thunder that kills, but the lightning." True enough; but I think that God thinks well of the thunder or He would not use so much of it.

First of all, make the people hear the prayer and the chapter.