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title: 'The White Sunlight of Potent Words: An Oration…Delivered … Philadelphia, June 14, 1881'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'John Samuel MacIntosh'
date: 1882-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Logic and Rhetoric'
- 'Homiletics'
scriptures:
- 'John 8'
- 'Proverbs 18'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/macintosh-1882-the-white-sunlight-of-potent-words-an-oration-delivered-philadelphia-june-14-1881
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# The White Sunlight of Potent Words: An Oration…Delivered … Philadelphia, June 14, 1881

An 1881 commencement oration celebrating oratory: truth is the soul of eloquence. Speech, like white sunlight, reveals reality and must be cultivated by study and practice.

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