It Is Not Merely Unnecessary, It Is Generally Painful; For The Average Clergyman Could Not Fire Into His Congregation With A Shotgun And Hit A Worse Reader Than Himself, Unless The Weapon Scattered Shamefully. I Am Not Meaning To Be Flippant And Irreverent, I Am Only Meaning To Be Truthful.

The average clergyman, in all countries and of all denominations, is a very bad reader. One would think he would at least learn how to read the Lord's Prayer, by and by, but it is not so.

He races through it as if he thought the quicker he got it in, the sooner it would be answered. A person who does not appreciate the exceeding value of pauses, and does not know how to measure their duration judiciously, cannot render the grand simplicity and dignity of a composition like that effectively.

We took a tolerably early breakfast, and tramped off toward Zermatt through the reeking lanes of the village, glad to get away from that bell. By and by we had a fine spectacle on our right. It was the wall-like butt end of a huge glacier, which looked down on us from an Alpine height which was well up in the blue sky. It was an astonishing amount of ice to be compacted together in one mass. We ciphered upon it and decided that it was not less than several hundred feet from the base of the wall of solid ice to the top of it - Harris believed it was really twice that.

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