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To effect anything; to achieve a result; to make your words deeds, as
the old Scotch thinker declared they should be or else not be uttered,
you must teach. And in your teaching you must teach "as one having
authority."
To the Master we must go, after all, even for our methods of
utterance, and at His feet learn that oratory is the utterance of the
truth by one who knows it to be the truth. And so will your words be
words of fire, and your speech have weight among your fellow men.
VII
THE YOUNG MAN AND THE PULPIT
All who do their best, and in doing their best do a good piece of
work, deserve equal credit whether the work be little or big. The
architect who builds a house has wrought for humanity as truly as the
statesman who builds a government. One man can make bricks well and
another lead armies to victory; yet each one has fulfilled his destiny
if his achievement was what he was fitted for and if he has done his
best.
From one point of view all occupations that help one's fellow men are
important. Who shall say that the hod-carrier has not done as much for
humanity as orator or poet. The cook is as necessary as the
philosopher. Compare the blacksmith and the sculptor.
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