358 RELIGIOUS AGENCIES 



must become more and more potent, and the pulpit, in order to 

 compete with its influence, must increase, both in intellectual power, 

 depth of conviction, and a fervor which will restore to pulpit 

 oratory its normal influence. For the saying of Delsarte is of 

 the truth: " The eye is the sense of the intellect; the ear is the 

 sense of the soul." 



