Salted With Fire
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Direct, comprehensive, well organized, simple in statement, "Elements of Rhetoric" is in all respects well fitted to fulfill its assigned role as a textbook. The remarks on practical problems and the examples and analogies confirm contemporary reports that Whately was himself a talented and stimulating teacher. The modern field of speech was born near the beginning of the twentieth century, some seventy years after Whately wrote. But influential leaders in the new field endorsed Whately s judgments, and courses and textbooks in public address have remained strongly influenced by his ideas. Whately s views on a number of major questions in rhetoric have proved sound and fruitful during many decades of practice, and his book remains one of the most influential works on the subject. "
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This story is not an easy read, but it's wonderful. The young minister is full of pride and thinks himself above others because of his holiness. However, he has an affair with a girl at the boarding-house, thinking her worry of only “flirtation” and not marriage. But when his affair is discovered, how will he respond? Will his pride be broken and true holiness have a chance, or is he doomed to forever be a hypocrite of false righteousness?
This deals mainly with pride. MacDonald manages to show the ashes of the young preacher's pride without offending the sensibilities with physical details of a flirtation (a child is conceived without more being pictured than a few kisses.) In a “Scarlet Letter”-esque situation, he must respond to the discovery when his congregation realizes what he has done.
