Papers on preaching and public speaking . of the educatedclasses and their capacity of imparting it. Yetthere is no species of intellectual excellencewhich produces such an immediate return. 14 PREFACE. While the speaker is in the very act of forminghis sentences, his triumph is reflected in thecountenances of his auditors. The orator pro-ceeds, animated, at every step, by this silentapplause, which comes to other men in feebleechoes long delayed, and which are often lostbefore they can reach the ear of him who is thesubject of their praise.—Quarterly Review,No. 206. Thomas Fuller says :— The
Papers on preaching and public speaking . of the educatedclasses and their capacity of imparting it. Yetthere is no species of intellectual excellencewhich produces such an immediate return. 14 PREFACE. While the speaker is in the very act of forminghis sentences, his triumph is reflected in thecountenances of his auditors. The orator pro-ceeds, animated, at every step, by this silentapplause, which comes to other men in feebleechoes long delayed, and which are often lostbefore they can reach the ear of him who is thesubject of their praise.—Quarterly Review,No. 206. Thomas Fuller says :— The pastor conceiv-eth himself to hear his mother-college alwaysspeaking to him in the language of Joseph toPharaohs butler. But think on me I praythee when it shall be well with thee; whichI should not have ventured to apply to myselfbut that Fuller continues:— And if he hathbut little, the less from him is the more accep-table ; a drop from a sponge is as much as a tonof water from a marsh. I therefore subscribe myself, A CHAPTER I. THE SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS. ^p^HE tendency of the age has, for someM P^A^ time, been setting in the direction ofthe pulpit. Make our pulpits resound,as of old, at Kings and Pauls Cross—open the cathedrals—let men have a chance ofcultivating eloquence which, perhaps, is hidden insome out-of-the-way country parish—anyhow, givethe preacher a chance to try his powers of reclaim-ing the masses—give him hours when the poor canattend—a shorter service than usual to precede hisdiscourse—these are the cries of the past year.* Allmay be epitomised in this— Give the preacher afair field and no favour, and let him try. The wayto the fulfilment of these wishes has been opened bygradual attempts to extend the influence of preach- * This was written at the close of 1858. 16 PAPERS ON PREACHING. ing. There have been Advent and Lent sermonspreached by guilds and fraternities of eminent Oxford, last Lent, the sermons of this kin
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