cial attention is here given to pausing, emphasis, and inflection, tho appropriate feeling is equally important.

3. Prophetic, or dramatic style, requires increased fervor and energy, and all the depth and fulness of orotund voice. It may be bold or gentle, according to its particular character.

4. Lyric, or musical style, by its rhythm and melody demands increased expression and intensity in feeling, running through all the various emotions of joy, sorrow, adoration, grief, etc.

PASSAGES FOR PRACTISE

NARRATIVE: Familiar-Gen. 4, 1-15; Gen. 22, 1-13; Gen. 24; John 4, 1-14; 1 Sam. 3, 1-18; Luke 15, 11-32. Elevated-Gen. 1, 24-31; Gen. 7, 11-24; Gen. 15, 1-18; Exod. 3, 1-20; Exod. 14, 5-31; 1 Kings 8, 1-63; Acts 26, 1-29

DIDACTIC: Prov. 15, 1-11; Matt. 6, 24-34; 1 Cor. 15; Rom. 3; Rom. 11.

PROPHETIC: IS. 55; Jo. 2, 1-11; Is. 41; Is. 42; Hos. 14; Rev. 21.

LYRIC: Didactic-Ps. 1. Pathos-Ps. 6. Tranquillity-Ps. 8. Praise-Ps. 63. Majesty Ps. 97. Solemnity-Ps. 139, 1-14. Also Ps. 18, 19, 22, 29, 30, 31, 38, 65, 90, 104; Exod. 15; Luke 1, 46-55; Book of Job; The Song of Solomon.

PART III

PUBLIC SPEAKING

CHAPTER XIII

PREVIOUS PREPARATION

PHYSICAL

1. Health. Health and bodily vigor are prerequisite conditions to success in public speaking. The distinguished orators of the world have almost invariably been men of strong vitality and commanding appearance. Burke, Brougham, Clay, Webster, Pinkney, Choate, Everett, Lincoln, Sumner, Hall, Spurgeon, Beecher, Gladstone, Brooks, and many others were men of this type. Robust health has a cheering influence and is a sweetener of work. To maintain this condition daily attention must be given to physical exercise, deep breathing, bathing, sleep, diet, and recreation.

Doctor Storrs names among specific conditions to success in preaching: Physical vigor, kept at its highest attainable point. He adds: "The general and harmonious intellectual vigor, whereby one conceives subjects clearly and fully, analyzes them rapidly, sets them forth with exactness in an orderly presentation, and urges them powerfully on those who listen-this requires opulence of health; a sustained and abounding physical vigor."1

Doctor Watson's advice to preachers is equally applicable 'to other classes of speakers: "The working minister should have his study recharged with oxygen every hour, to sleep with his bedroom window open, to walk four miles a day, to play an outdoor game once a week, to have six weeks'

1 Richard S. Storrs, D. D., Preaching without Notes, p. 86.