Samuel Johnson, uncouth, untidy, ragged, held the young peers of Oxford spellbound with his speech, and the masters gave him larger freedom of action than his confreres, because his words cut swaths like polished scythes. Djemal Pasha ruled the Turkish empire with his speech. The world awaits its master of brotherhood-cohering words. "A right word how good it is, who can measure the force of a right word?"

But the Lord said to Samuel, No, not one of these for king of Judah and Israel. For the one with genius for war has his inner vision toward men to marshall them for martial triumphs; the one with genius for statecraft has his inner viewing set toward men to place them as heads of tribes and territories, and the one with genius for compelling speech is observant of men's swaying emotions under his spellbinding oratory.

Now their youngest brother David took not much note of men. "Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord," he said, "for he shall pluck my feet out of the net." Not what he himself did, but what the Lord on high was doing, was David's aspiration. And the seer anointed David with kingship; and he was the greatest warrior on earth, the greatest statesman, the most victory-awakening speaker: -- "The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary; and strengthen thee out of Zion," was his national rallying cry.

In the time of the World War one nation shouted, "We are ready to sacrifice seventy-five thousand men any day." And it was soon recorded that that nation had sacrificed more men in proportion to those sent forth to battle front than any other nation engaged in the great conflict.