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•Eloquence is speaking out. . . out of the abundance of the h eart.” 
— Hare. 
“His preaching much, but more his practice wrought 
A living sermon of the truths he taught.” 
—-Dry den. 
T. AUGUSTINE writes: “Love God first, and then you may do what 
v —J you choose.” And with regard to eloquence, we may subjoin: 
“Love first, and then you may say what you please;” for affectionate 
speech fortifies the mind, moves obstacles, disposes to self-sacrifice, makes 
the unwilling willing, and elevates the character as well as the mind. 
Anyone, therefore, who desires to become a good, successful Chris¬ 
tian orator, as, for instance, St. Paul was, or St. Francis Xavier, ought to 
have, above all other things, a heart full of charity and pity for his people; 
pity for their sufferings, their miseries, their prejudices, their deplorable 
subjection to popular opinion, their ignorance, their errors. lie, at least, 
should try to do them good; in a word, to save them. Therein lies our 
happiness, and we shall never have any other, because all other sources 
are closed to us. There is the well-spring of the most delectable joys! 
Apart from charity, what remains? Vanity, unprofitableness, bit¬ 
terness, misery, nothingness. 
If I were here still further to speak on how to be eloquent, I should also 
remind the intelligent reader of Christ, the greatest of moral teachers. Who 
in all Ilis dealings with men brought Ilis teachings to the level of the lowliest 
Intelligences. 
And such was the attractiveness of Ilis methods , that He was followed 
