SPIRITUAL ELOQUENCE IN COMMUNICATION
Eloquence isn’t necessarily flowery language so much as heartfelt expression. Consider this prayer of a country preacher in Red Rock, Mississippi: “Oh Lord, give Thy servant this mornin’ the eyes of the eagle and the wisdom of the owl; connect his soul with the gospel telephone in the central skies; ‘luminate his brow with the Sun of Heaven; possess his mind with love for the people; turpentine his imagination, grease his lips with ‘possum oil, loosen his tongue with the sledge hammer of Thy power; ‘lectrify his brain with the lightnin’ of the word; put ‘petual motion on his arms, fill him plum full of the dynamite of Thy glory; ‘noint him all over with the kerosene oil of Thy salvation and set him on the fire. Amen!” Kenneth McFarland’s Eloquence in Public Speaking, page 18.
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