The natural voice, free from the chest, is most agreeable and effective in conversation and in addressing an audience; it is least fatiguing to the speaker and to the hearer, and penetrates farthest.
Spirited and impressive sermons, mostly in a major key, modulate in elevating ideas to the dominant, in soothing sentiments to the sub-dominant and the relative minor keys, but return and end in the principal key like a musical composition.
Collections of melodies in sermons and speeches of different nations would be most interesting and useful to students in oratory, be it for a dignified and becoming rendering of the great truths and sentiments in religion and humanity, or for persuasion, admonition, and encouragement in secular matters.
The following melodies I have copied from a speech by an Oxford professor, and from a sermon by an English bishop.
From an English speech (by an Oxford professor):
![{ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \clef bass \key ees \major \cadenzaOn bes4 bes bes g f ees \bar "|" c' c' bes g f ees bes, ees \bar "|" c' c' bes aes2 g4 \bar "|" c' bes bes g f ees c bes, \bar "|" f aes aes f g ees bes, \bar "|" c' bes bes g ees \bar "|" c' bes d ees ees \bar "|" bes bes ees aes2 \bar "|" ees4 c' c' bes ees aes \bar "|" aes bes, g ees \bar "|" c' bes ees bes, bes, \bar "||" }](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/0/3/035wrioxlaqas9jzkfvkzpnb2igdtr8/035wriox.png)
From (the sermon of an English bishop) an English sermon:
![{ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \clef bass \key ees \major \cadenzaOn bes,4 f f d ees d \bar "|" f bes, ees bes, d2 \bar "|" ees4 ees g g f ees bes, | g g bes bes g f d ees d \bar "|" d f bes g f \bar "|" bes bes g f d ees \bar "|" bes bes f g g d ees2 \bar "|" g4 f d bes, bes, \bar "|" f f g bes bes g bes2 \bar "|" f4 aes aes f bes f c'2 \bar "|" d4 ees g bes bes g f d ees \bar "|" bes, d d d ees g \bar "|" f d ees g bes bes \bar "|" f g aes c' bes g d ees \bar "|" ees aes, c ees \bar "|" g g f d ees \bar "|" d ees f bes, ees \bar "||" }](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/b/3/b388jb7tfmdbhn715axnwfbbfe7i4bp/b388jb7t.png)
—Longman's Magazine.