"Yet, after all, it (the influence of the Speaker of the House of Representatives) is power, power which in the hands of a capable and ambitious man becomes so far-reaching that it is no exaggeration to call him the second, if not the first political figure in the United States."—(Bryce: American Commonwealth.)
This device of repetition is used in transforming the incoherent sentence below into a coherent one.
Incoherent: This policy is not the best one; it is false, and we know it, and shun it accordingly, even if it is not to our interest.
Coherent: This policy is not the best policy; it is false, we know it to be false, and though shunning it is not to our interest, shun it we do. (Composition and Rhetoric for Schools. Herrick and Damon, p. 304-5.)
PART V.
The Apostatic[A] Period.
LESSON XXXI.
(Scripture Reading Exercise.)
ELEMENTS OF APOSTACY IN THE CHURCH.
ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
I. Characters of the Early Christians. | The Student will find a Treatise upon the subject of Apostasy in the Writer's "Outlines of Ecclesiastical History" as also in his "New Witness for God," Vol. I, as well as in the notes that follow. |
II. Controversy and dissentions among the Apostles and Elders. | |
III. Schisms--Defections--and Church wide Demoralization among the Saints. |