call that came to our fathers_. As they responded so shall we.

 

"_HE HATH SOUNDED FORTH A TRUMPET that shall never call retreat. HE IS SIFTING

OUT THE HEARTS OF MEN before His judgment seat. OH, BE SWIFT OUR SOULS TO ANSWER

HIM, BE JUBILANT OUR FEET, Our God is marching on_."

 

--ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE.

 

Remember that two sentences, or two parts of the same sentence, which contain

changes of thought, cannot possibly be given effectively in the same key. Let us

repeat, every big change of thought requires a big change of pitch. What the

beginning student will think are big changes of pitch will be monotonously

alike. Learn to speak some thoughts in a very high tone--others in a _very_,

_very_ low tone. _DEVELOP RANGE._ It is almost impossible to use too much of it.

 

_HAPPY AM I THAT THIS MISSION HAS BROUGHT MY FEET AT LAST TO PRESS NEW ENGLAND'S

HISTORIC SOIL and my eyes to the knowledge of her beauty and her thrift._ Here

within touch of Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill--_WHERE WEBSTER THUNDERED and

Longfellow sang, Emerson thought AND CHANNING PREACHED--HERE IN THE CRADLE OF

AMERICAN LETTERS and almost of American liberty,_ I hasten to make the obeisance

that every American owes New England when first he stands uncovered in her

mighty presence. _Strange apparition!_ This stern and unique figure--carved from

the ocean and the wilderness--its majesty kindling and growing amid the storms

of winter and of wars--until at last the gloom was broken, _ITS BEAUTY DISCLOSED

IN THE SUNSHINE, and the heroic workers rested at its base_--while startled