Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Educate all to speak slowly. Do not allow any
hurried reading or rapid delivery. Teach the student
to inhale the God-given, vital air, and then in the
exhalation clearly express their words. Thus the
vital properties of the air are utilized.
Never allow an indistinct utterance to pass
unnoticed. Let the speech be as perfect as possible.
Accept nothing else. By cultivating the voice a
grand work will be done, not only in learning how
to breathe, inhaling the pure, life-giving air and
exhaling by speaking in loud, clear tones, but also
in the preservation of life.
In speaking there need be no strain put upon the
throat or the lungs. The abdomen is the powerful
engine from which the organs of speech are to
receive the power which keeps them in perfect tone
and expression. There needs to be an economizing
of nervous strength, in order that the voice may be
perfected, thus enabling laborers to speak in such a
way that the truth will lose none of its force and
beauty by being bunglingly presented.
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