Chapter 48 the fresh air is so nice

When speaking, we should keep the air fresh.Even the eloquence of Cicero, the art of beautiful bodies in Rocus Hall, would be drowsy without fresh air.So, as a speaker, I always open the windows and give the audience a two-minute break before I speak. When Henry Ward Beecher was at the height of his oratory career, Major James Pound traveled throughout the United States and Canada during his fourteen years as organizer of the Brooklyn preacher's doctrine.Wherever he goes, before the audience arrives, he always conducts a close inspection of the place where Beecher is giving a speech-or the auditorium, or the church, or the theater, including lighting equipment, seating equipment, temperature, and ventilation. etc.Pound had always been a irascible army officer, and keen to exercise power, so if he found the lecture room too hot or poorly ventilated and he had difficulty opening the glass windows, he would throw books at the windows and throw The glass shattered.He believed what Spurgeon said: "The best thing that can happen to a preacher besides the grace of God is clean air."