Freedom and Citizenship (Classic Reprint): Selected Lectures and Addresses of Hon. John Mercer Langston, LL. D., U. S. Minister Resident at Haiti

Excerpt from Freedom and Citizenship: Selected Lectures and Addresses of Hon. John Mercer Langston, LL.; U. S. Minister Resident at Haiti

Cultivated rhetoric, vigorous imagination, fine dis criminating logical powers, accurate and extensive knowl edge, sincere respect for his fellow-men, a soul-absorbing philanthropy, and a warm and benign earnestness; these are the qualifications of the successful pulpit orator. These were the qualities which gave such force and beauty to the discourses of Hall, such point and persuasion to the ser mons of Whitefield, and such weight and fervor to the preach ing of Chalmers.

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