The series of College Conferences closed last night with a lecture by Professor Wright, following in idea, the lecture which he delivered last week on the life of St. Paul, the apostle. He took for his subject last night Paul's speeches, and reviewed briefly last week's lecture.
The majority of Paul's speeches are recounted in the Acts of the apostles and in reading them we must bear in mind the fact that Paul was easily influenced by surrounding circumstances, and by his contact with other nations. His style was strikingly characteristic, and was at times intensely finished. All his speeches are filled with the socalled Pauline element, which deals with Christ as Saviour of the Jew and the Gentile, the Lord of the spiritual world, rather than a fulfillment of the law.
Paul's speeches were delivered for the most part while on his mission tours, and are ten in number. The two longest are those delivered at Antioch and at Athens. In all cases but one he spoke in Greek, and while there is sometimes a lack of that smoothness and polish found in the classical writers, there is at all times a force and directness of speech which is very impressive.
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