Ellice Hopkins : a memoir / by Rosa M. Barrett ; with introduction by H. Scott Holland.

  • Barrett, Rosa Mary.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Ellice Hopkins : a memoir / by Rosa M. Barrett ; with introduction by H. Scott Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    age and resource. But she was always justi- fied. She knew where to look for power. She found it in the Spirit. Her spiritual energy told on her audience from the first moment of her speech. She held them; she mastered them ; she disarmed hostilities ; she disposed of fears; she secured assent. Nay ! she kindled and inspired. Most women are very good speakers, but very few rise to distinct eloquence. She was one of the very few. Her language was always effective and finely chosen ; but, at times, she would rise to passages which entranced. Then, at such moments, the weakness of her physical frame added power, by contrast, to the emotional tension. Two occasions of peculiar anxiety come back especially to my memory, when her spirit triumphantly dominated the menace of cir- cumstance. One was the time when she consented, at our request, to speak on Purity to Oxford Undergraduates.
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