MAKE YOURSELF UNDERSTOOD

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 7, 1892

MAKE YOURSELF UNDERSTOOD.

ONE of the great objects of speech is to make one's self understood, that is, provided one has anything to say. If one has no ideas, then one can use big words, and sometimes fool and confuse ignorant people; but intelligent people are not cheated in that way.

There are many learned men who cannot speak to the common people. Their language is such a mixture of words derived from foreign tongues that the common people do not hear them gladly. Great speakers and great men can make themselves intelligible. It is only men of inferior grade and defective or one-sided education who talk on ordinary themes in language which common people cannot understand, and which it is possible they do not understand themselves.—The Christian.