As regards all that pertains to preaching, and especially delivery, our efforts at rhetorical improvement must be mainly negative. We endeavor to gain correct general principles, and some idea of the errors and faults to which speakers are generally liable. We then speak, aiming to be guided by these principles, and to correct our faults as they may arise. It is unwise to set up at the outset some standard of excellence, and aim to conform to that. If one should take a fancy that cedar-trees are