With deep spiritual penetration Mrs. Eddy writes: "Eloquence re-echoes the strains of Truth and Love. It is due to inspiration rather than to erudition."Science and Health, p. 88
When language is the instrument of Love, it becomes a mighty force for universal good. Mere verbal eloquence may stir men's minds, but their hearts are touched only by words welling up from selfless love. Though one be master of many languages and possess as well the power to voice them movingly, the essential element of inspiration is missing if love be absent. Rhetoric that is Love-less is Soulless, and the winds of time will carry its weightless words into the silence of the centuries.
No one knew this better than the Apostle Paul, that Love-inspired orator who moved men so profoundly by his speech. In the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians he writes as though reminding himself as well as his hearers of this vital point: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."I Cor. 13:1
