St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: An Attempt to Convey Their Spirit ...
St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: An Attempt to Convey Their Spirit ...
John Hamilton Thom
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What would then be the sustaining spirit of such Eloquence ? Ambition, the love of power, self- seeking, ostentatious vanity. Every noble thought would have a base origin, — and every generous sentiment be a mean falsehood. Is such the inspira- tion that gives to gifted speech dominion over the souls of men? Or is such the Eloquence that re- freshes the very he^^rt from which it came, by the burning glow of elevated principles and honest sym- pathies? The most effective utterance is ever the mo...st direct, simple, earnest, truthful. Unrivalled is the energy of persuasion, that proceeds from the tones, and looks, and kindling eye of unselfish sin- cerity. What is Rhetoric, to the simplest word of Love and Truth ! Only that which comes from the heart long continues to go to the heart; — and the world has not been without examples of the highest Eloquence of intellectual genius, because suspected Digitized by V3OOQ IC I. COR. CHAPS. XII., XITI. 191 to be unsound at heart, losing the faith of men, and becoming as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
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