Excerpt from Public Uses of the Bible: A Study in Biblical Elocution

This study in vocal interpretation of the Bible had its origin in an incident of personal history. After a serious break-down, following a year of exhausting revival work, the writer's physician said quietly to his friends, "He will never preach another sermon." The symptoms, as they appear in review, were ominous and disheartening, but the issue was quite otherwise than that feared by the physician. An entire change of climate brought a new lease of hope, and with it there came, "little by little, " ability to preach in the ordinary tones of conversation. This led to study of emphasis and inflection, with a view to economize vital force in speech, and this in turn to the application of the "Statutes of Expression" to Bible-reading. The results of study and practice in the directions indicated, were no less beneficial physically, than they were mentally gratifying. The subjects thus opened, have been followed up, with more or less industry and interest, ever since. The interval of cessation from preaching, after the break alluded to, was only a few weeks.

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